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    "Nickelback" is so bad......

    Detroiters Launch Petition Against Nickelback halftime Show, Thousands Sign
    November 7, 2011 5:09 PM


    By Christy Strawser
    CBS Detroit Managing Editor
    DETROIT – Detroit has it tough, with falling home prices, high unemployment, struggling manufacturing, and crime so rampant in the downtown city bus drivers say they’re “scared for their lives.”

    Now comes another blow: Nickelback.

    The formulaic, faux rock n’ roll band is scheduled to perform the halftime show for the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving Day, one of the most anticipated home games of the season.

    But fans aren’t taking it lying down, with more than 43,000 people signing a petition at change.org that asks show producers to reconsider their choice.

    “Detroit is home to so many great musicians and they chose Nickelback?!?!?!” the petition says. “Does anyone even like Nickelback? Is this some sort of ploy to get people to leave their seats during halftime to spend money on alcoholic beverages and concessions?

    “This is completely unfair to those of us who purchased tickets to the game. At least the people watching at home can mute their TVs.”

    University of Michigan student Dennis Guttman started the petition. Why?

    “It’s because they suck,” he told news website MLive. “I’m sure they’re great people, but I can’t stand their music. If people want to see them perform, go buy a ticket to their concert.”

    Petition signer Eric Ransom summed it up this way, “Haven’t the good people of Detroit been through enough?”

    Guttman, and others, have noted that The Motor City, home of Stevie Wonder, Eminem, Kid Rock and Bob Seger, birthplace of Motown, is not the place for a Nickelback stadium show — especially during the premier game of its football team’s best season in memory.

    Robert Jones, who describes himself as a “lifelong Lions’ fan” wrote on the website supporting the petition, “Nickelbacks’ music doesn’t even reflect a musical genre that has ever been popular in the city. It is not rock and roll, its a nasty hybrid of the worst manufactured music on the planet.”

    In case the petition is successful, Ann-Arbor based musician Mayer Hawthorne announced his candidacy on RollingStone.com, saying he’s willing and able to step in.

    “See ‘ya Thanksgiving Day,” Hawthorne says in the video, urging fans to support him on Facebook and Twitter. “Go Lions!”

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    Couldn't agree more.

    Nickelback is beyond awful.

    I'd sign it.

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    We buried them.

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    Nickleback is embarrassing to say the least.
    On the other hand, why would anyone watch a half-time show??

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    man they really do completely suck

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    Nickelback

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    I actually enjoy nickelback

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    Quote Originally Posted by paco View Post
    I actually enjoy nickelback
    40,000 people can't be wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by daneblazer View Post


    Is that Joe Pa talking to future recruits??

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    Quote Originally Posted by paco View Post
    I actually enjoy nickelback

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    Man... what a burial.

    I would love to see how Nickleback reacted to the petition, and qoutes like, "Because they suck."

    I'm sure these guys are beyond rich, and think they make awe inspiring music. Nevertheless, this had to be a blow to their ego.

    Finally, how does Nickelback continue to make music/money, yet it seems everyone thinks they are garbage. Well except for Paco. Pacos the only guy in Detroit who would show up to see Nickleback's halftime show.

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    Quote Originally Posted by daneblazer View Post
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    That Chad guy from Nickelback has a big ass mansion around here and it's been egged a couple times. Guy is a ******* fruit cake but gotta give him credit he still sells out concerts.

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    How can u guys not like this song?


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    or this classic


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    and you didn't know this for the last 10 years, how???

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