AOL TopSpeed Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime Show

This article is about the TV segment on The NFL on CBS called the AOL TopSpeed Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime Show. For Janet Jackson's and Justin Timberlake's blunder during their song, see the article dubbed "Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy".

The AOL TopSpeed Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime Show was a halftime segment on the TV program The NFL on CBS at Super Bowl XXXVIII. The show was sponsored by America Online's TopSpeed software for dial-up Internet service.

It was produced by Viacom's MTV and CBS Sports. (Since then, Viacom has split into two companies, CBS Corporation, which owns CBS, and Viacom, which owns MTV.) It included a performance with singers Janet Jackson, P. Diddy, Kid Rock and Nelly. It also included a summary of the first half of the game between the New England Patriots and the Carolina Panthers, with comments by the analysts of The NFL Today, Jim Nantz, Dan Marino, Deion Sanders and Boomer Esiason, who also hosted the special called The NFL Today at the Super Bowl. The summary included views of the game taken with EyeVision TV cameras developed by CBS Sports and Carnegie Mellon University's camera vision researcher Takeo Kanade.

The AOL TopSpeed Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime Show included TV commercials, including spots for AOL TopSpeed, Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser, Bayer AG/GlaxoSmithKline's Levitra, Eli Lilly's Cialis, Pepsi, and Pizza Hut's Four for All pizza, which featured the Muppets.

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