To be honest, the halftime show at Super Bowl LIII was (or should have been) a welcome break
By the end of the second quarter in Atlanta only three points had been posted, all of them to the New England Patriots, who took a slender lead over the Los Angeles Rams to the locker rooms.
Those inside the Mercedes-Benz Stadium - along with hundreds of millions at home -were in need of a few minutes' distraction from a painfully dull first half.
Maroon 5 were tasked with providing it, though their halftime show performance, which featured cameos from Travis Scott and Outkast's Big Boi,
didn't go down too well.
One of the highlights(?) was a special tribute to
Spongebob Squarepants, with a short clip of
Sweet Victory - the song performed by the cast of the Nickelodeon cartoon in an episode from 2001 - featured during the halftime show. That much-loved episode, named 'Band Geeks' sees Squidward tricked into forming a marching band for the Bubble Bowl, a parody of the Super Bowl.
Fans of the show have tried to get a performance of
Sweet Victory included in the Super Bowl half-time show for years without success. This year, however, f
ollowing the death of the show's creator, Stephen Hillenburg, a
petition requesting Maroon 5 perform it passed 1million signatures.
As it went, Maroon 5
didn't actually perform it, despite lots of people seeming to think they would. They did, however, include a brief tribute clip - though this didn't stop the obvious disappointment of Spongebob/ general meme fans the world over.
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