Van Halen Talks Super Bowl Rumors

Apparently when Eddie Van Halen recently told USA Today that “in the New Year, we’ll possibly do something special, but I can’t talk about it,” the guitarist wasn’t alluding to the big game.

On Monday the Van Halen News Desk posted an open letter from David Lee Roth telling fans that although the band would be thrilled to take the stage at New Orleans’ Superdome, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell hasn’t asked the band to take part in Super Bowl XLVII.

The full letter is below:

An Open Letter 

I’m compelled to address the now-rampant rumors that Van Halen is playing the Superbowl. First of all let me say this – be still my pigskin heart. That honor has not been bestowed upon us at this time though it is one we would accept in a NY minute.

Having heard VH blaring through stadium speakers on any given Sunday – more like every given Sunday, the idea of playing there live would be like – ‘okay, now we’re in the game’.

Van Halen’s collective memories are – and with all due respect to each and every one of these memories, teeming with been-theres and done-that’s, but none include playing at the Superbowl. Playing at the Superbowl is a veritable holy grail of musical recognition, a highly prized rite of passage for (game-changing) artists. Not a spiritual rite with snake pits or Hebrew school or anything, but it’s up there.

We are not on Commissioner Goodell’s dance card at this time, but we would be most honored to dance the halftime away in New Orleans.

It’s an honor to be considered and for that we would like to thank the rumormongers all over the World Wide Web.