If you are anything like me, you did not watch the Super Bowl last year, nor do you remember who even played in it.  Along with a good portion of America, I tune in for the commercials and halftime show. However, lately it has been harder and harder for me to actually watch that much of the Super Bowl.  With all the cutest and wittiest commercials being posted on the Internet before the night is over and the halftime shows being almost too unbearable to watch, I feel like there is no need for my eyes to ever have to settle on the actual Super Bowl. 
But things have changed for me this season. Ladies and gentlemen, Beyoncé is performing in the 2013 Super Bowl halftime show. I think I speak for most people when I say I believe Beyoncé is a gift from the heavens to grace our headphones with empowering songs about what it takes to be a strong woman and how to tell if our man is cheating on us.   From the Destiny’s Child days to the era of Sasha Fierce, I have loved her.  She was there for me when we were both “Crazy in Love” and supported me during my first break up by singing “Single Ladies” alone with me in my car.   Now it is my time to support Beyoncé as she takes the stage for Super Bowl XLVII on Feb. 3, 2013. 
Maybe I am just a little biased, but I believe having Beyoncé as the headliner for the halftime show is the best thing the producers of the Super Bowl could have ever done.  She has been flourishing in recent years.  Even giving birth to her daughter Blue Ivy with husband Jay-Z managed to make her even more famous.  However, Beyoncé has not been teaching girls to run the world for free. 
Her total net worth is approximately $300 million.  Last year approximately 111 million people tuned in to watch the Super Bowl. I can only imagine how many more people like myself will tune in just to watch our girl Beyoncé during the halftime show. Over the years, the halftime shows have typically been a hit or miss. In the early 2000s, performers varied from Phil Collins to Shania Twain and U2 to Ben Stiller.   Then in 2004, Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson shocked the world with the wardrobe malfunction of the decade.  
From that point on, the top dogs in charge of the Super Bowl halftime show made sure to never let anything scandalous happen again.  So for several year later the world suffered together and watched our parents’ and grandparents’ favorite performers try their hardest on stage for us.  Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Prince, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and The Who all joined the ranks of the others who had gone before them on the coveted Super Bowl halftime stage.  Word must have gotten out the general public was bored because in 2011 The Black Eyed Peas graced the stage.  We rejoiced in having a performer from our generation, but later regretted it after Fergie and her crew made our ears bleed.
Apparently Madonna is not drawing Social Security yet because she showed up last year to perform with LMFAO, Nick Minaj, M.I.A and Cee Lo Green.   Even though my eyebrows automatically rise when Madonna is mentioned, I feel like 2012’s Super Bowl halftime show was a step in the right direction. As for 2013, I know Beyoncé will be a hit and do wonders on that stage.  Maybe this year I will watch the actual Super Bowl instead of putting in my “Pride and Prejudice” DVD again.