Rachelle's Reading List, Monday February 6th, 2012

by Rachelle Hruska · February 6, 2012

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Things you may have missed about the Super Bowl

Yes, the headlines were grand: [The Giants Win the Superbowl: A Look at the Front Pages], the halftime show had people talking: ["Best $2k: The Superbowl Halftime Show n Tackles Egyptian Culture, High school and the Church all in One], as did the commercials: [Dogs, Babies, Doritos, America: The Superbowl Commercial Recap], and finally, Stanley's live tweets were pretty fun: [Stanley Does The Superbowl], but here are some more things that you may have missed from the Superbowl (go Giants!): 1. Givenchy sketches of Madonna's Super Bowl looks [LuckyMag] Madonna kept it tasteful last night. All three outfit changes were a hit from Givenchy:

Givenchy Sketches of Madonna's Super bowl

2. Katy Perry moves on at Super Bowl [NYPost]

Katy Perry hinted that she’s ready to move on after her dramatic recent split from Russell Brand, telling a crowd during a pre-game Super Bowl performance, “Everything feels brand new.” The singer then flirtatiously dedicated a song to Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, who her religious parents reportedly want to fix her up with.

Performing in a glittery half-Giants, half-Patriots cropped jersey, and tiny shorts, Perry teased Tebow by dedicating her song “Peacock”—which includes the lyrics, “I wanna see your peacock, cock, cock, your peacock, cock”—to the NFL sensation. “This goes out to Tim Tebow,” she said, accompanying the ditty with a raunchy dance and suggestive moves with her microphone. She even ended her live show Saturday night by “Tebowing.” 3. Rush Limbaugh caught picking his nose? [Deadspin] [Mediaite] This is hysterical! Check out the upper right hand corner of this photo!

An eagle-eyed Super Bowl viewer caught radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh allegedly mining for gold in New England Patriots CEO Robert Kraft‘s luxury box during Sunday’s game. While the focus for panning in on the booth was the presence of Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler, off in corner of the shot, Limbaugh–who is a family friend of Kraft and invited him as a guest at his wedding–appeared to be making some sort of nostril penetration.

- 4. Super Bowl sets new record for simultaneous tweets [NYTimes]

Proving again the appeal of chatting online while watching TV, the tense end of Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday night set a new record for simultaneous Twitter messages. As the game ended, Twitter counted 12,233 posts per second, the most for any English language event in the six-year history of the social-networking service. Earlier in the evening, during the halftime performance by Madonna, the site counted 10,245 posts per second. Most of the Super Bowl ads on television had either a Twitter hashtag, a Facebook reference or a Web address.

5. M.I.A. middle finger could be expensive for NBC [AtlanticWire] I almost didn't believe this happened....but one of our guests watching the performance caught it (while I was too busy critiquing Madonna's cheer outfit-her only big blunder in my opinion).

The network made a late attempt to blur it out, but the middle finger of Super Bowl halftime performer M.I.A. appeared crystal clear before some 110 million viewers last night and NBC and its affiliates could pay a hefty fine. "Each station that broadcast the material could be fined up to $325,000," says Samuel Feder, former general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission. "The obscene gesture in the performance was completely inappropriate, very disappointing and we apologize to our fans," said NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy in an Associated Press story this morning. As you can see in the video below, the moment occurred during Madonna's halftime medley when British singer M.I.A. flipped the bird and sang "I don't give a shit" before the screen blurred momentarily.