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NFL Wants Potential Super Bowl Halftime Acts To Pay For Right To Play
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the NFL is being a real big jerk to the musical artists that have been selected as finalists to land this year's Super Bowl halftime gig. The league, seemingly unable to understand how concerts work, is asking the artists to pay money in order to p...

These Very Happy, Very Gay Young People Changed The Super Bowl Forever
No matter what Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili Peppers do on Sunday, they will owe a giant, choreographed debt to Up With People....

"A Women Kissing A Nerd," "Beyonce Girating Her Vagina," And Other Angry Complaints To The FCC About The Super Bowl
Beyoncé is a "slut." She "gyrated her pelvis," "humping the air for 13 minutes." She "dressed like a stripper" dancing in "erotica fashion." Her "breasts protruded out, her butt almost completely showed." She "showed her vaginal area to all the world." Some people had very different reactions to the...

Roundup: The Best Beyoncé Photoshop Contest Submissions
We knew that a Beyoncé-themed Photoshop contest would yield hilarious results, and you guys did not disappoint us. Here are the best of your submissions. ...

Photoshop Contest: Unflattering Beyoncé Pictures
Beyoncé performed during halftime at the Super Bowl this year. You may have heard about this. Beyoncé's performance was so captivating that the internet is still buzzing about it, although much of that buzz has to do with some pictures of Beyoncé that some consider to be unflattering. You know what...

Could Beyoncé Have Performed At Halftime With Diarrhea?
Before we get into this week's Funbag, a quick announcement: The last Jamboroo of the season posts on Thursday. So starting next week, there will be TWO Funbags a week. There will be the usual Tuesday Funbag. And then, every Thursday, there will be a LIVE Funbag. We'll do this all the way through to...

Here's A Really Sad Email From A Guy Who Lost A Prop Bet On Beyoncé's Lack Of Cleavage
This screencap of an email, sent by someone named Jacob to an offshore sports book, has been making its way around the internet today, and boy is it sad. The only thing more depressing than placing a prop bet on whether or not Beyoncé will be showing cleavage during the first song of her halftime p...

Remembering Up With People: The Gayish Quasi-Cult That Invented The Super Bowl Halftime Show
Originally published in Bloomberg View...

Beyoncé Had An Insane Press Conference Where She Sang The National Anthem, Accepted Compliments From Reporters, And Then Posed
How do you recover when an entire nation of adoring fans suddenly learns that your entire career is a lie? You open a pointless press conference full of pre-approved journalists with the National Anthem—no backing track, no judgmental president, no preservatives. Beyoncé is prepared to steal the S...

The Gayest (And Straightest) Super Bowl Halftime Shows
How shocking would it be if Madonna brought gay themes to the Super Bowl halftime show? Not very. Throughout its history, the halftime entertainment has meandered from straight to gay and back again. (Click here for my homemade infographic rating the halftime shows from straightest to gayest.)...

Homemade Infographic: What Were The Gayest (And Straightest) Super Bowl Halftime Shows?
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....

Madonna's Halftime Act Will Reportedly Be "Bringing Gay To The Super Bowl"
At least that's what the New York Daily News' gossip moles overheard one of her dancers say at a party the other night. But before James Dobson can shift uncomfortably in his chair to craft a press release, somebody really ought to tell him Madonna's 20 years behind the times....
