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Tag: Super Bowl

Sports

Could SpongeBob have a sweet victory at the Super Bowl?

Cody NelsonCody Nelson February 1, 2019, 12:15 PM Feb 1, 2019
17 Comments

Maroon 5 might be the biggest musical act in the world that nobody really likes (aside from maybe Coldplay), but they have a chance to redeem themselves at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday.
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Arts & Culture · Sports

Super Bowl halftime band urged to take a knee

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 1, 2019, 9:13 AM Feb 1, 2019
41 Comments

Maroon 5 took the money that many artists wouldn’t take in protest of the NFL blacklisting and treatment of Colin Kaepernick, the quarterback who took a knee during the National Anthem to protest racial inequality in America, and found himself out of work. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Sports

Super Bowl draws the line at the ‘P word’

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 31, 2019, 1:35 PM Jan 31, 2019
8 Comments

A food company tries to get away with porn references in its Super Bowl ad. It didn’t work. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Dylan reveals answer that’s blowing in the wind: it’s bad beer

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 23, 2019, 12:42 PM Jan 23, 2019
29 Comments

We interrupt our blog posting to reveal that the Budweiser Super Bowl ad, which previously and traditionally focused on Clydesdales and puppies, is heavy on the Dylan this year. Read more →

This or That

Response to Gillette ad proves some men are better

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 16, 2019, 7:10 AM Jan 16, 2019

The now infamous Gillette ad audaciously suggesting that men treat women with respect and police the ones who don’t, has accomplished its mission of opening a discussion. It also required us — again — to listen to the sound of a million hissyfits by men who don’t have much to offer after ‘hey, baby!’ Read more →

This or That

Is toxic masculinity too hot for men to handle?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2019, 3:09 PM Jan 14, 2019
93 Comments

‘The best a man can get’, the long-time advertising slogan of Gillette, is being turned on its head in the #MeToo era. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Weather

Cold enough for you? Yeah, us too.

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 1, 2018, 8:09 AM Feb 1, 2018
35 Comments

Hi there, visitors. Welcome to our state. Before you unpack, please understand that one of the reasons why the locals — who love the cold, they say — are talking about how terribly cold it is today is so that you’ll think highly of our ability to ignore the cold and pretend we love it so much we dread the coming summer. Just humor us; it’s a thing.
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Sports

Let’s make Monday a national holiday

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 30, 2018, 7:05 AM Jan 30, 2018
19 Comments

The chances are pretty good that you’re going to skip work next Monday, the day after the Super Bowl in Minneapolis. The flu outbreak is good for something; it gives us a believable excuse.
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Sports

Super Bowl showdown: economic boost or no?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 29, 2018, 8:50 AM Jan 29, 2018
75 Comments

Today’s New York Times article that declares that Minneapolis St. Paul won’t see the big economic windfall from the Super Bowl that its hosts thought it would probably isn’t that big of a surprise to the hosts. That’s pretty much why details of deals between the NFL and host cities are kept fairly secret. Read more →

Sports

Prices falling for Super Bowl tickets

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 24, 2018, 7:05 AM Jan 24, 2018
18 Comments

It’s probably only a coincidence that it happened just after a big snowstorm in the host city, but the price of Super Bowl tickets at US Bank Stadium are sliding. Read more →

Sports

Super Bowl protests won’t be ignored, NBC says

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2018, 9:04 AM Jan 10, 2018
49 Comments

If there are player protests during the Super Bowl in Minneapolis next month, NBC says it won’t cover them up to keep advertisers happy. Read more →

A Super Bowl volunteer diary

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 13, 2017, 8:04 AM Nov 13, 2017
6 Comments

Laura McCallum, MPR’s Managing Editor of Daily News, is one of the 10,000 people volunteering to greet visitors during Super Bowl week this winter. She’ll be documenting her experience periodically on NewsCut.

Here’s her first dispatch. Read more →

Sports

Super Bowl volunteers are soft targets for the haters

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 13, 2017, 7:01 AM Nov 13, 2017
41 Comments

Yesterday afternoon, thousands of volunteers for the upcoming Super Bowl week attended their training on how to put the state’s best foot forward for visitors to our fair state, many convinced that we’re just nicer and more polite than people in the rest of the country. Read more →

Brainerd airport official wanted plane ban until players stand

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 6, 2017, 8:12 AM Oct 6, 2017
28 Comments

A commission member urged the full board to oppose any Super Bowl-bound planes landing in Brainerd until the NFL enforces its rule requiring players to stand during the National Anthem. Read more →

Crime and Justice · Politics

Super Bowl-prostitution link questioned

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 27, 2017, 6:42 AM Jun 27, 2017
15 Comments

Every time there is a major event in the Twin Cities — the Republican National Convention, for example — we are told that it will also be accompanied by a large increase in prostitution. It’s that way in other cities, too, particularly when the Super Bowl comes to town, as it will in Minneapolis next winter. Read more →

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