Petition For Weird Al Yankovic To Play Super Bowl Half-Time Show Gets 45,000 Signatures

He has the number one selling album in the country and he did that without any radio play. Weir Al Yankovic is having the time of his life. Now it seems folks want him to play the Super Bowl. Last month, Yankovic scored his first ever number one album in the US after decades of releasing popular pop parodies such as Eat It, a spoof of Michael Jackson's Beat It, which is about a fussy eater. Now, after a "drunken" dare. some one put up a petition for Al to play the Super Bowl. And it's caught on. "After hearing a drunken conversation between sports fans in a bar – one of whom had debated whether the act could be Justin Beiber or Iggy Azalea “among many other terrible ideas” – Mr Ed Ball “drunkingly [sic] submitted” the petition and asked Redditors to do the rest. It now has 45,000 signatures, with one signatory exclaiming: “Weird Al is the voice of America!!” There are those that say Weird Al would be perfect for the Super Bowl. "“Sure, many consider Weird Al a bit, a gimmick comedic artist. But you cannot deny that he has crafted his art and been successful over the past 4 decades, gaining the respect and approval of every artist he parodies.” http://nr.news-republic.com/Web/ArticleWeb.aspx?regionid=1&articleid=27039566&m=d