It was on, often with the sound off.

My team didn't make the game, by just three points, oh well, that's football.

I sort of watched the halftime show. The staging was excellent. To get all that out there in a commercial break and back out for playtime after? That is stage design of high order.

The music? Not my style, but I don't think the NFL is concerned with my fondness for Progressive Rock. I don't like rap, in any language. But the NFL knows who their audience is. Thought the dancing was a bit over the sexual top - or bottom - but whatever.

The message of community, culture, kindness, love, and joy did resonate.

There was a football game on either side? In between the commercials? I'll be damned.