The NFL, Janet Jackson, & the 2004 Nipple Gate Controvesy
What a Creep
Margo Donohue
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The Super Bowl’s Big Wardrobe Malfunction
Season 28, Episode 4
It was the wardrobe malfunction seen around the world. We’re going to talk about the infamous 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show. The entire country lost their collective mind because they got a glimpse of Janet Jackson’s boob for less than a second during what they like to pretend is a family-friendly cultural event. In reality, we’re watching a brutal sport in which men are getting concussions for our entertainment, sandwiched in between commercials for booze and boner pills.
Was it a planned stunt? Was it an accident? Does it really matter? Some people just used it as an opportunity to shit on Janet Jackson 24/7, and others used it as an opportunity to get on their soapbox to disingenuously ask, “Won’t someone think of the children.”
Sources for this episode
- Deadspin
- Los Angeles Times
- “The New York Times Presents: Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson”
- NPR
- Rolling Stone
- Rolling Stone
- Wikipedia
Non-Creepy American Football Charities:
USA Football.com: USA Football believes in the passion, intensity, joy, confidence, and sense of community football brings to those who play, coach, and love it. From practice to playoffs, we work to make the game better and safer, ensuring that nothing stands in the way of a player’s excitement for the sport.
American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Foundation: A charitable organization that supports football coaches.
Good Sports: A youth sports charity that provides equipment to needy programs.
American Youth Football: American Youth Football (AYF) is a 501(c) (3) non-profit corporation that provides support services, scholarships, grants, community programs and tournaments
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| 0:31.6 | Welcome to What a Creep, the show with Margotanio and Sonia Mansfield, talking about creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:38.5 | This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes, and losers, the best of the |
| 0:43.5 | worst. From two nice ladies who want the world to be a Creep. This is Margo Donahue. And my cohort in Creepatotot, as always, is the amazing Sonia Mansfield. Hey, Sonia. Hello, my friend. We are the podcast that talks about creeps from the past to the present. |
| 1:11.9 | This is Super Bowl weekend here in the United States of America. |
| 1:16.2 | Are we America anymore? |
| 1:17.3 | Who knows? |
| 1:17.9 | Question mark. |
| 1:18.7 | Question mark. |
| 1:21.4 | And so we thought we would talk about an event that happened 21 years ago. |
| 1:26.8 | Unbelievable. |
| 1:31.2 | This creepitude is allowed to order alcohol now. |
| 1:40.8 | It's old enough to drink. Wow. Weird. We're celebrating the Super Bowl the only way we know how by shitting on the NFL and CBS. |
| 1:45.3 | But here's the thing. |
| 1:55.6 | We always end the show with somebody who's not a creep or today some buddies that are not creeps at the end of the episode, which means we're always looking for ideas for creeps and also for the non-creep. |
| 1:57.5 | So there's lots of places you can reach out to us. |
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