The Super Bowl, the final game of the NFL professional football league, is one of the biggest single events in the world. Although it is basically a sporting event - American football, the Super Bowl has long been one of the musical and advertising highlights of the year. How else to explain the fact that it was the concert part that was watched the most and that advertisers pay fat sums to appear on the air. This year, the 2015 Super Bowl will be held on February 1 at the Phoenix Stadium. Are you ready for real American NFL football?
Super Bowl 2015 – for 49. laurel will clash in the capital city of Arizona (venue University of Phoenix Stadium). Baltimore Ravens and New England Patriots, and the battle for the music stage fell this year Katy Parry, who will be joined by the Grammy Award winner Lenny Kravitz. The picture will be broadcast to the world by the television company NBC, which is hoping for a similar achievement as last year, when Bruno Mars nailed it in front of the television screens during halftime. 111.5 million viewers (to which another 100 thousand from the stadium must be added).
How much truth there is in the fact that, according to the new rules, musicians must pay for the performance and not the other way around, remains a trade secret, but it is already known that national anthem sung by the Tony Award winner, Idina Menzel, known for the theme song Let it go for the Disney cartoon Frozen.
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The Super Bowl is otherwise a single excess, a day when they collapse (non)sporting records, the day American football cares the whole world, although its rules are known to only a handful beyond the pond. However, for the spectators, this is more of a show than a sporting event. It's a Hollywoodization of sports, where the focus is on entertainment and not so much authenticity cheerleading, so it is not surprising to learn that in America, after Thanksgiving, this is the day when people they eat the most food per year (e.g. over 1.25 billion chicken poults are sold).
And while the first tickets in 1967 were after all (calculated) 10 euros, the price today is 100 times higher. So if you want to go to an American football game, you'll have to choose between paying three months' rent or thereabouts four hours sports-music-advertising spectacle.
More information:
www.nfl.com
