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Now, can the metal men from San Francisco save the Super Bowl halftime show?
The petition, started by Jason Long of Columbus last year ahead of Super Bowl 50 and just recently re-opened for Super Bowl 51, has more than 64,000 signatures as of this writing, but perhaps it will get new life with the release of a new album.
“The timing is kind of coincidental, actually,” Long told the Dayton Daily News. “I got the urge give it another push on a Monday and on Thursday it got a shove when they announced the new album and single.”
Even more coincidental — Long had a chance to talk to Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich after seeing the band play in Minneapolis on Friday night.
“I’m excited about it. I actually got thanked by Lars in person on Friday night for it,” Long said. “Of course, I had to tell him I was the guy who started it. He didn’t know me!”
With British pop superstar Adele reportedly turning the NFL down (maybe), what's the harm in going in another direction entirely?
It’s been five long years since Slash took the stage (to play the softest non-ballad in the Guns N’ Roses catalogue with a pop star) during halftime of Super Bowl XLV.
It’s time to give America and the world its metal fix.
Make the Super Bowl halftime show great again!
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