XtremelyBJS2004

Hi guys! Britellectual from the Britney Forum on EFG posted this article from the Cox News Service on Britney's KICKASS performance the other night @ NFL Kickoff 2003. This is a really great article, especially w/ the comments of both Mr. Dart and the fans who talk about Brit here. All this positive feedback on our woman, how cool is that?! Enjoy!

Britney Spears Scores A Touchdown

The belly-baring singer and the NFL's season kickoff prove to be a dynamic mix.

By BOB DART
COX NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Oops! Was football ready for some Britney!

Yeah, America's midriff-baring, booty-shakin', Madonna-kissing, Justin-dumping, six-pack-abbed, Pepsi- pushing, Slaved-4-U, pregame-highlighted sweetheart is a natural-born gridiron fan.

"I'm from the South," explained Britney Spears before kicking off the 2003 National Football League season Thursday night with her first live concert in more than a year.

'Nuff said.

And hundreds of thousands of her rowdy friends came over to the National Mall for the musical spectacle before the opening game between the Washington Redskins and New York Jets several miles away at FedEx Field in suburban Maryland. Along with a two-song set by Spears, there were performances by Mary J. Blige, Aerosmith, Good Charlotte and Aretha Franklin.

With the U.S. Capitol as a backdrop, the concert has been criticized as too commercial for the public grassy plain that has more often been the setting for civil-rights marches, inauguration crowds and Fourth of July celebrants. But few protests ever drew a crowd this size. While the Park Service does not give official estimates, this music-loving multitude stretched block after block on the muddy Mall, which goes from the Capitol to the Washington Monument.

With her backup dancers wearing Jets and Redskins jerseys and with her famed belly button bared, Spears sang two songs from her new CD, "Against the Music." Her hair was cut in a conservative, shoulder-length pageboy, but her dance moves were as raunchy as ever. Her black leather short shorts drew shouts of approval from many of the thousands of soldiers, sailors and Marines in attendance.

The concert is a comeback of sorts for Spears, who has taken time off from performing since her exhausting 2002 summer tour and some disappointing CD sales. However, she has hardly been out of the public eye during this self-imposed hiatus. The world watched her breakup with Justin Timberlake (and his subsequent thing with Cameron Diaz) and her televised kiss with Madonna at the MTV Video Music Awards.

"I hadn't kissed anybody in a while," Spears explained at a preconcert news conference. "So I think she'll do for a while."

Spears said she comes from a family of football fanatics in Louisiana. She said she loves performing at football events because the crowd creates energy and excitement that she "can get into" and because "they always have a real big stage." She is also a spokesman for Pepsi, one of the sponsors of the concert.

Fans came out hours early to stand in the rain and mud for the live performance.

"I'm the biggest Britney fan ever," said Brianne Bailey, a recent Virginia Tech graduate who is job-hunting in Washington, D.C. "I know I'm 22 and I'm not a teeny-bopper. But I've been a dancer all my life, and she does what I want to do."

"I will not lead a complete life until I meet her and hug her and tell her how much she has impacted me," said Bailey, who was trying to sweet-talk a guard into letting her closer to the stage.

"I think she is the next Madonna. She is the ultimate performer, not just a dancer or singer," said Atia Abawi, 22, a TV-station intern from Chantilly, Va. "I've been a fan since my junior year in high school. I used to wake up at 4 o'clock to hear her songs on the radio before she got popular.

"I want her life," said Abawi, who was wearing a No. 24, Champ Bailey Redskins jersey.

Quinn

She sang two new songs? Why does it say that? And she's a spokesperson for Pepsi again? Is that official? Ok that's too many questions, it's just that it's exciting cause that means maybe she'll do some new commercials. I love her Pepsi Commercials.

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Mikky

yey!!! more Britney!!

Besnit

I think the writer was getting confused about the new songs. Unless she sang another one but I can't believe we wouldn't have heard something about it.

And no she isn't with Pepsi again but the NFL Concert was sponsered by them I think, so the writer just added it.

Thanks for posting that was nice.

Dirty Drink

she's been resigned with pepsi for a while and she is in the process of another commercial. i told yah they'd look dumd getting rid of her. and yes she sung two new songs but we've only seen one of them. the ther song was probably just for the audience there to gauge their reaction. for me there's no questions about it. it's a totally reliable piece of literature.

Besnit

I have never heard about this. Where did you hear about it?

Surely we would have heard something about it....someone from britneyspears.org was there and they never mentioned it. They wouldn't be able to keep something that big quiet.