Metallica Is A Super Bowl Halftime Show Match Made In Heaven

I've gotta get this off my chest...

Last Sunday, I was at the Triangle Pub in White Center with my neighbor. We were discussing the NFL pre-season games we'd watched (I was especially boastful about my beloved Pittsburgh Steelers, who, naturally, wiped the floor with the Arizona Cardinals yet again). Being the music nerds we are, the conversation steered toward the musical guest most likely to play the halftime show at next year's Super Bowl. Watching Springsteen earlier this year was painful. The Stones were embarrassing a few years prior. Paul McCartney sucks. Tom Petty, while obvious, still ruled.

Given this track record, it seems like a no-brainer that the artist filling next year's slot will probably be John Mellencamp or Journey. But what about fucking Metallica? I would argue that no band embodies the raging energy of pro football better than Metallica and no band out there could match the flexed-muscle spectacle that is the Super Bowl better than Metallica. Better yet, the American heartland is chock-full of good ol' boys driving around in pick-ups with No Fear stickers on their back windshields blasting ...And Justice For All.

Their set would most likely suck to diehards...

"Enter Sandman"

"Fuel"

Variables: "Seek and Destroy", "For Whom The Bell Tolls", "Whiskey In The Jar".

Some have argued that Metallica is too metal for the mainstream, to which I say "And Prince is too fey, but he still played." It may not happen this year, but I'm willing to bet I'll see Metallica on that stage before my life is over.