Super Bowl With a Smirk is back with our fourth of five daily columns needling the self-important NFL and the excess and gravitas of its big game.
Justin Timberlake is back starring in the Super Bowl Halftime Show sponsored by America’s second-favorite cola, and that can mean only one thing: Questions about, references to and flashbacks of Janet Jackson’s nipple.
Time flies, so it was Feb. 1, 2004, when Timberlake last strode an SB halftime stage and when during a duet with Jackson the phrase “wardrobe malfunction” infamously was born.
Other than Prince singing and magnificently shredding guitar in a Miami downpour in 2007, it might have been the most memorable halftime moment ever when Timberlake ripped off a tearaway piece of Jackson’s top, as planned, but inadvertently exposed her right breast.