“Your Coldplay jokes are almost as bad as Coldplay”: Super Bowl 50’s halftime headliners prompt halfhearted yawns

When it's announced that Coldplay is headlining the Super Bowl 50 halftime show, there are two acceptable courses of action: 1) Snowshoe to a remote cabin, play "Parachutes" on repeat, and spend a Norwegian winter line-editing your manifesto. 2) Hurry to Twitter to be among the first to tweet an "extra-long pee break" joke. (If you're reading this, it's too late.) https://twitter.com/hinojosa_david/st... I rushed into what I thought would be a burning building and found an over-microwaved bag of popcorn; Twitter's response was far less apocalyptic than I'd expected. Most reactions were truer than they were funny: https://twitter.com/oZzYbAbY18/status... https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/6... https://twitter.com/thecultureofme/st... There were some clear winners: https://twitter.com/lfitzmaurice/stat... https://twitter.com/AlmostStephen/sta... But, overall, morale and enthusiasm was way down: https://twitter.com/cpayneonaplane/st... https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/statu... https://twitter.com/danozzi/status/67... Barring any much-needed guest appearances, gone are the days of nip-slips and Left Sharks. This year's halftime show will be just one more thing to endure besides McConaughey's six-minute Lincoln ads.