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   Re: Turning Point USA Unveils Star-Studd   
   10 Feb 26 18:47:45   
   
   XPost: alt.sports.football.nfl, rec.sport.football.pro   
   From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 2/10/2026 5:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   > On Feb 10, 2026 at 2:15:19 PM PST, "super70s"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2026-02-10 19:38:09 +0000, BTR1701 said:   
   >>   
   >>>   On Feb 9, 2026 at 9:51:08 PM PST, "super70s"    
   >>>   wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   On Feb 8, 2026 at 5:37:21 PM PST, "Ubiquitous"    
   said:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>   Turning Point USA vowed to put on a show to rival the Super Bowl   
   >>>>>   halftime show headlined by Bad Bunny, and they delivered in red, white   
   >>>>>   and blue.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   The lineup for "The All-American Halftime Show" was announced Monday.   
   >>>>>   Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett will take the   
   >>>>>   stage in a show TPUSA says will celebrate faith, family, and freedom.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   No wonder it got awful ratings (other than its meager list of   
   >>>>   entertainers), who the hell could access it easily.   
   >>>   
   >>>   You have to be a really special kind of moron not to be able to easily   
   find   
   >>>   and access YouTube.   
   >>   
   >> Super Bowl: 127.7 million viewers   
   >> Puppy Bowl: 12.8 million viewers   
   >> TPUSA: 5.2 million viewers   
   >   
   > It's actually up to 6.5 million live viewers now, with an additional 19   
   > million on-demand views on YouTube and an additional 6 million on Rumble, so   
   > you're low-balling it by a helluva lot. How surprising.   
   >   
   > The TPUSA event was also the second-most streamed event in YouTube history.   
   >   
   > No one expected it to outperform the Super Bowl itself which has a worldwide   
   > infrastructure and marketing juggernaut behind it that no alternative   
   > broadcast could hope to beat no matter the content of the show itself, but   
   > TPUSA's numbers were large enough that they most definitely got the NFL's   
   > attention.   
      
   Though I watched none of the three halftime-shows (nor indeed the game   
   itself), I'm guessing only the first two drew viewers by aesthetics.   
      
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