no, not the stones; the SuperBowl TV producers!
The Rolling Stones would be too old to watch their own Super Bowl performance, organisers have ruled.Two thousand people will be invited onto the pitch to watch the band's half-time performance on 5 February. But only people aged between 18 and 45 are eligible, US National Football League spokesman Brian McCarthy said. "You have to attend rehearsal and be able to stand for long stretches of time," he told Detroit Free Press. <> The NFL said it would be a "once-in-a-lifetime chance" to experience the prestigious US event "from a totally unique perspective". Age restrictions were applied because the task was physically demanding, Mr McCarthy added. Volunteers will be expected to dance, sing and cheer, remain on their feet for long periods and wait in a tunnel for most of the first half. They must attend up to five rehearsals lasting up to seven hours each.
Let me ponder this for a moment. Now that the NFL has officially reversed its policy one must consider that the "official" reason given was no more valid than the myriad excuses for invading Iraq--as in a complete lie. But why?? Well, i am old enough to be an average aged member of the Rolling Stones. I produce rock-n-roll festivals and concerts and spend most of the summer on my feet running from place to place at a venue trying to facilitate and organize and insure stuff is done. I do lots of heavy lifting (you ever lift speaker cabinets or drum risers?) and tremendous amounts of motivating audience and other people to participate in the process. But of course rehearsing and standing around on my feet for hours and running a whole 50 yards and back would be dangerous and too strenuous according to the NFL.
No, what is really going on is all about demographic shares and TV audience attention and how many scantily clad young female bodies they can have gyrating and bouncing up and down, and how few not quite attractive visuals they can hide. This is all about image and not one bit about health and safety. This is the future of sexism and agism and classism in this country. Fascist media types controlling the public's perception of who is living in our culture. Baby boomer types are passe, it is their kids and grandkids that will spend the money. The NFL is a business all about marketing and entertainment that is predicated on youth. And it just doesn't work for them to solicite older people--no matter how experienced and healthy they are--to provide back up images for their advertising revenue. Because the half time show is nothing more and nothing less than a commercial for commercials. They are all bastards.
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