It’s hard to believe that Foo Fighters has not yet played the halftime show. If ever there was an orchestra specifically designed to play the Super Bowl halftime show, it’s Foo Fighters. It almost feels like some kind of government-backed brainstorm or lab would create a band for the Super Bowl if it were Foo Fighters. The man Dave Grohl spent about 25 years trying to convince us that he is, Bruce Springsteen, has already done so. If the NFL wanted to pick a band that would be applauded by its still overwhelming white press corps of middle-aged age, you could not get one in the bag anymore. The only risk would be Taylor Hawkins said something really stupid with such a bullhorn, proving the universal truth that you can never make a drummer speak. The band as a whole proves it, given where Grohl comes from.
Grohl is probably under the impression that he or the band still has just enough punk / street credit to look down on such a concert, but they lost it a long time ago. This is their natural end, and Grohl can no longer swim against the tide. If he so desperately wants to cling to the imaginary faith, he can only play drums while St. Vincent Nirvana sings songs and Josh Homme sings their Crooked Vultures songs during the performance, designing the ultimate bait-and-switch on the league and their audience. . This would compensate for the general annoyance of the Foo Fighters’ presence in popular culture over the past two decades.