Super Bowl halftime entertainment has come a long way, and that evolution has quietly reshaped how some collectors view ticket stubs. At Super Bowl I, halftime featured the University of Arizona and Grambling State marching bands, along with flying pigeons and balloons. The show was pageantry, not pop culture, and tickets from that game are collected almost entirely for football history.
Fast forward a few decades and halftime became the show within the show. Super Bowl XXVII changed everything when Michael Jackson turned halftime into a global spectacle. Later, Super Bowl XLI delivered one of the most celebrated performances ever with Prince playing through a rainstorm. And who can forget Super Bowl XXXVIII, when Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake became forever linked to the infamous “wardrobe malfunction.”
Today, some collectors pursue Super Bowl tickets not for the final score, but for who took the stage—proof that halftime history has become a collecting category of its own.
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