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Everyone has seen the after-Super Bowl Disneyland spots where an athlete is caught right after the game saying, "I'm going to Disneyland!" Well, one of the NFL cameramen that make those shots happen is from the Bay Area and was interviewed by the Chronicle. Interesting read.

Prince's halftime performance at Super Bowl XLI was nothing short of amazing. He opened the show by being lifted onto the center of the stage. He was wearing a turquoise suit with an orange shirt and a black head scarf--a look that only Prince can pull off. Playing an orange telecaster, he went into a high-powered performance of "Let's Go Crazy."

It was raining throughout the performance and the lighting accentuated the rain and smoke that was flowing from the stage. Next a marching band came out onto the field to accompany him on "Baby I'm a Star" which turned into a medley that included Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary" which he sang as a duet with one of his background singers. Wow.

He did not have a guitar for the first medley, but was given a blue Telecaster for the next medley which consisted of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" with his own lyrics leading into "Best of You" by the Foo Fighters. During all this surely the audience was wondering, "Is Prince going to be electrocuted?" This looks really dangerous. Raining. People going ape shit. Rain on the camera lenses, rain on the microphones, rain on the instruments, rain on the lights, crazy ass lights everywhere. Just amazing. You could almost picture Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters at home watching the Super Bowl going, "Holy shit, Prince is playing our song!" while jumping around his living room high-fiving everyone. I have to wonder if he even knew Prince would sing it ahead of time.

What came next was even more incredible. After the second medley, Prince was handed a custom-made purple guitar in the shape of his symbol and proceeded to sing "Purple Rain," in the rain, with the stage giving a purple glow (also shaped as his famous symbol). The camera angles were amazing. The rain got heavier. The audience was in awe. Motherfuckers just couldn't believe it. He threw his head scarf into the crowd and went into his solo. A virtuoso performance followed by the outro. In the middle of the outro, he invited the crowd to sing with him saying "Y'all wanna sing tonight!?" The response was deafening. The whole stadium sang. So much so that Prince knocked down his microphone stand and finished the show by letting the audience sing. That's balls right there.

The crowd singing turned to a deafening roar as the show ended and one couldn't help but think that it was the best Super Bowl halftime performance ever. Please keep in mind that this was all live, not like Britney Spears, or Janet Jackson, or Justin Timberlake, who all used some sort of pre-recorded vocals. The band on stage was only a female drummer and a bass player. Ultimately, it was Prince as a one man show, flanked only by one backup singer and two dancers for most of the show. Three guitar changes. Five songs. A historic once in a lifetime performance that we will remember for a long time. It made us wish we were there.

We were in Las Vegas this Super Bowl weekend and had the opportunity to watch the game at Caesar's Palace Casino with thousands of other people. Every television in every area of the casino had the game on and it seemed that everywhere you turned you couldn't escape the oohs and aahs from the gallery during every play.

Even though every single play of the game was closely watched, the halftime show was merely background noise for the true event--the game. Which by the way was one of the best Super Bowls I have ever seen. I was even hoping for an overtime to continue watching the game--it was a very exciting game.

Surprisingly, this morning there seems to be more talk about Janet Jackson and her naked breast moment during halftime than the game itself. It seems that the whole "tittie thing" went unnoticed, or was deemed "normal," while sitting in the middle of a casino.

After doing my own research on the event on the Internet today, even going to a site that showed video clips of the broadcast in slow motion, I will have to say that Justin Timberlake definitely pulled the leather covering her breast on purpose.

He did not "get caught" on the fabric while performing a dance move and the costume didn't "malfunction"--it was totally intentional. Maybe he was supposed to grab only the leather and not the red lace just behind it, maybe. I may believe that. But there's no way the whole thing was just an accident.

If you ask me, the whole thing was simply a publicity stunt pulled off by the Jackson camp to get the heat off Michael Jackson's Pedophilia Adventures. Why would Janet have such an ornate piercing through her nipple!? The piercing upon closer inspection (see close-up picture) was a sun-shaped medallion about the size of a dollar coin. You would think that she would have taken off any and all nipple paraphernalia, especially something that big and awkward, prior to putting on her elaborate costume. I'm just not buying it. She put it on because she knew the tit would show, and that's the truth.

Let's put this up to vote, what do you think of this whole breast flash thing!?