Tom Dunne: A magnificent Super Bowl and a reminder of Snoop's encounter with the Saw Doctors

There may have been a sad reaction in some quarters of white America to the half-time show, but the rest of us just marvelled at the performances

Dr Dre, Mary J Blige, and Snoop Dogg perform during the Super Bowl Halftime Show in Inglewood, California. (Picture:  Kevin C Cox/Getty Images)

If you haven’t seen the Super Bowl half-time show, Dre and Co, you should take 30 seconds out of your day to watch the time-lapse version. You will stand in awe and marvel. You will wonder why did it take America so long to get to the moon, and why do we still have world hunger?

It is as if - as my family have asked me to stop saying - you staged a quick Garth Brooks show in the middle of the All-Ireland. With replays and semi-finals, Garth could do his five shows, briefly, without inconveniencing the Croke Park residents. Non Garth fans could linger in the bar and return to their seats to see no visible evidence he’d played, the grass still pristine.