February 10th
Today let's talk about the Super Bowl that was on last Sunday. But, I'm not going to talk about football like you would expect from a Super Bowl blog. Oh, no. This blog will mainly be about SpongeBob.
Okay, maybe a little. Patriots won. Jimmy Fallon had puppies correctly predict it. Go to YouTube, and watch it to see my meaning, Okay, back to SpongeBob.
So if you watched the halftime show, you saw that Squidward introduced the next singer, as well as a little clip from the season 2 episode" Band Geeks.
So if you don't know why they aired those brief clips, I'll tell you. An online petition had a bunch of signatures signed to have Maroon 5 play 'Sweet Victory' during the halftime show in honor of the late Stephen Hillenburg. SpongeBob's creator, who died in November last year.
And Steve and Jeff being hard-core SpongeBob fans who had knowledge of this beforehand, was pumped out to see them play the song in front of thousands. But, it didn't. This disappointed them, as well as millions of fans across the country. It was one of the reasons why they watched the Super Bowl.
Stan said adult football fans didn't want to have to sit though a kid's show song, and that other singers already had plans before the petition. But Steve and Jeff complained that SpongeBob was part of their childhoods, and to have it not played like they were expecting, really disrespected Hillenburg, and was a middle finger to him, and his many fans.
I agree to a certain degree. It would have been nice to have that epic song play out, but in the end, it was the NFL's decision.
And the clip of the song did air, but on the screens when the audience left. That was kind of a bummer and a let down, but hey, at least they aired it!
Apparently, the NHL aired the song during their halftime. Steve and Jeff felt better after that, but said that it should've aired during the Super Bowl.
So even though Maroon 5 didn't do as promised, and didn't sing it live, at least they did something for it. And ja, if they did play it, for Hillenburg, and for the fans everywhere who signed the petition, instead of a brief clip, it would have been sweet, sweet, sweet victory.