Unless you were a Seattle fan, Super Bowl XLVIII wasn’t much as far as football goes.
Thank god there was Bruno Mars at half-time to make up for any lack of excitement.
Peyton Manning may not have showed up for his star turn. (Nor did Richard Sherman, who exited early with a bad ankle).
That’s all right, Mars was there at half-time.
After a chorus of young people of every race sang in front of an enlarged U.S. flag, Mars, 28, appeared center stage banging on a drum set like he was announcing the arrival of a new America.
It was not a boring drum solo.
Indeed, Mars, half-Filipino on his mother’s side, with a father of Puerto Rican-Hungarian descent from Brooklyn, was born and raised in the perfect place for diversity — Hawaii. There he graduated from Roosevelt High, skipped college and went straight to Hollywood.
