Katy Perry and the Super Bowl truly deserve each other. The Super Bowl is watched by tens of millions of people who don’t like sports. Katy Perry songs are downloaded by tens of millions of people who don’t like music.
Her inevitably horrendous halftime performance is still 12 days away, but NBC began started the obnoxious self-promotion of it days before the AFC and NFC conference championships were held.
You can even make Katy Perry prop bets on the Super Bowl.
Now here are the rules for my publishing/shaming the horribly inane and utterly worthless Super Bowl pitches.
1. All excerpts are taken straight from the pitch email/press release
2. Only the big stars and major networks will be called out by name. The rich and powerful are fair game.
3. The little fly-by-night companies will have their names redacted. Hey, they’re trying! And we’re not going to give them the free commercial they want, even if it is an ironic way, by plugging them.
4. There’s going to be a lot more where these came! I had received four different Super Bowl story pitches before we even got to Conference championship weekend. So this is only the first batch!
NBC Sports Group sent out a release to tell us Kravitz was playing too. We all knew that months ago. NBC sent out a release about Katy Perry getting the gig….months after the whole world already knew. So thanks for that!
1. Global superstar Katy Perry has invited LENNY KRAVITZ to join her as she headlines the PEPSI SUPER BOWL XLIX HALFTIME SHOW on NBC at University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona on Sunday, February 1, 2015, it was announced today during an exclusive interview with Katy on NBC’s broadcast of the AFC Divisional Playoff game featuring the Baltimore Ravens at New England Patriots. Katy’s full interview with NBC’s Willie Geist discussing her upcoming halftime performance and her invite to Kravitz will air Monday morning on TODAY.
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Does the world really a puff piece glorifying Cris Collinsworth? And they even did that STUPID, WORTHLESS “goes one-and-one with” cliche.
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REAL SPORTS correspondent Mary Carillo goes one-on-one with the 15-time Emmy® winner two weeks before he calls Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, Arizona and gains a behind-the-scenes look at his tireless preparation, which includes ten-hour days full of film sessions. She learns that Collinsworth, a husband and father of four, has passed along the sports tradition to his children. Austin is captain of the Notre Dame football team and Jac hosts a weekly football television show at Notre Dame, while Ashley is a junior captain of the Harvard track team and Katie is making her way as an executive at the Golf Channel.
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Katy Perry? Gross. Ick. Katy Perry had parlayed her 15 minutes of fame into like five years already. GO AWAY!
Paul M. Banks owns, operates and writes The Sports Bank.net, which is partnered with Fox Sports Digital, eBay, Google News and CBS Interactive. You can read Banks’ feature stories in the Chicago Tribune RedEye newspaper and listen to him on KOZN 1620 The Zone. Follow him on Twitter (@paulmbanks)