“Look, I’m not saying she’s a bad singer, it just wasn’t a good show, okay? It’s my right to not like something.”
Was that someone’s opinion about the performance of megastar Rihanna during Super Bowl LVII’s halftime show on Sunday night? Yes, but you also could take that exact quote, plug in the name of the halftime star of an older Super Bowl (insert your preferred roman numeral here), and it would still hold up.
Why?
Because a good portion of the country could never possibly hate the annual Super Bowl halftime show more if the NFL decided to have someone from one of America’s two major political parties host a town hall meeting, instead.