November 2nd, 2011 at 11:15 AM ^
I'm excited.
November 2nd, 2011 at 11:20 AM ^
Hold on hold on Imma let you finish, but guys Nickleback is the greatest band of all time. OF ALL TIME!
November 2nd, 2011 at 11:25 AM ^
Because nothing says american holiday like a canadian band.
November 2nd, 2011 at 11:27 AM ^
Good to see the Fords' incompetence is still alive and well.
November 2nd, 2011 at 11:32 AM ^
Throw kid rock and pop evil on the bill just to balance it out.
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November 2nd, 2011 at 11:42 AM ^
Bobby Carpenter probably invited them. This what you get for having buckeyes on your team.
November 2nd, 2011 at 11:57 AM ^
I thought they couldn't go any lower after they had Jesse McCartney......I was wrong
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:10 PM ^
I think that since the Lions couldn't have a terrible team this year, they decided to torture their fans with a terrible halftime show.
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:23 PM ^
won't be "cool" by saying this, but they really aren't that bad. Are they anything ground breaking or revolutionary? No, but there is nothing wrong with their brand of "pop" rock.
However, it is a strange booking on an American holiday.
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:41 PM ^
actually, they really are that bad
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:28 PM ^
If people would quit talking about them and listening to their music, they would go away.....
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:33 PM ^
There were a lot of boos when Kid Rock played halftime at Thanksgiving and probably a lot of would-be boos held in because people were afraid of getting assaulted by someone in Kid Rock's hometown white trash brigade.
The crowd will be merciless.
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:39 PM ^
I hate all halftime shows that don't involve the MMB. No exceptions. I trace this back to the "Up with People"* Super Bowl horror in the 80's (or early 90's? I've tried to repress that memory, but just can't). I just feel bad for the fans with a$$es in the seats in Ford Field on T-giving.
Food for thought: what if the MMB covered Nickelback songs during a halftime show? By my self-proclaimed rule, I would have to love it since the MMB ejects pure gold out of their instruments.
*A quick Wikipedia check indicated 3 "Up with People" Super Bowl performances in the 70's and 80's. Wow. I completely understand that Up with People does good in the world. I just despised them as a youth during Super Bowl halftime performances.
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:45 PM ^
Do you like the MMB?
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:42 PM ^
I could care less who they have for the halftime show. I just want the lions to win. I was at the Denver game and the lions look really good live, or Denver looked really bad.
November 2nd, 2011 at 4:29 PM ^
The lions are really good at beating really badly coached teams.
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:50 PM ^
Being a huge packer fan, this is the one game I am most worried about, left on our remaining schedule. I dont know what it is, but you guys also come to play on thanksgiving
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:53 PM ^
Except for that one year vs the Colts. What did Peyton throw? Like 6 or 7 TDs?
November 2nd, 2011 at 2:16 PM ^
Don't forget 2008. When we showed up to play the Titans.....and left after the pre-game festivities. 45-10 I believe? Or the year that Joey Harrington and the Dolphins came in and threw like 3 TD's against us
November 2nd, 2011 at 3:42 PM ^
or the year Tom Brady came in and dropped like a thousand points.
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:51 PM ^
I vote for Black Sabbath. A little War Pigs oughta get the boys fired up.
November 2nd, 2011 at 3:56 PM ^
O LORD YEAH!
Someone needs to make a hype video to 2011 Lions highlights with War Pigs in the background. Include cut shots of napalm and cold war era troops marching in Red Square. Totally fitting. #allkindsofawesome
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:55 PM ^
Nickelback is awful. Poor choice.
November 2nd, 2011 at 1:54 PM ^
In the 1990's, when "alternative" officially became mainstream, Clear Channel decided that you have to sound like one of five or so bands in each genre to get airplay. Nickelback made the cut, and got tons of airplay and promotion.
When you don't have much of a moral or musical compass, and you are being told "just keep doing what you are doing and you will be rich and famous," it's really hard for most bands to say "no."
So, don't blame Nickelback for doing what most people would do in their situation, blame Clear Channel for using their power to turn mainstream radio into a flatulence joke.
November 2nd, 2011 at 1:54 PM ^
I voted for a White Stripes reunion so we could have 7NA live. Alas, guess my voice wasn't heard.
November 2nd, 2011 at 3:40 PM ^
You can't do a reunion of a band that's been disbanded for less than a year...
November 2nd, 2011 at 1:57 PM ^
Bob Segar wouldn't be bad and he's a local guy.
November 2nd, 2011 at 3:39 PM ^
Bob Seger thinks Bob Segar sucks.
November 2nd, 2011 at 2:01 PM ^
Well, at least we'll have a clear scapegoat if they lose.
November 2nd, 2011 at 2:37 PM ^
Is that they're named for a kind of defensive back. FOOTBALL!
November 2nd, 2011 at 3:06 PM ^
not kid rock.
November 2nd, 2011 at 4:17 PM ^
Fuck. Had I know, I might not have paid $400 for nosebleed seats yesterday. What a crap band.
November 3rd, 2011 at 12:12 AM ^
Clearly some sort of savage focus group corporate think was at play here. Some sort of intersection of Rust Belt football, the almighty dollar, and fan consciousness had combined to pull Nickelback out of the bowels of hell to play the halftime show, in Detroit, on Thanksgiving. What's next, ICP?
November 3rd, 2011 at 8:05 AM ^
pound more food at halftime.