If you tuned into the NFC Championship game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers, hopefully you stuck around long enough to see the home team overcome its 16-0 halftime deficit and pull off one of the more shocking comebacks in NFL playoff history. If you left at halftime because FOX didn't broadcast Alice in Chains performance—instead giving us the pleasure of hearing Jimmy Johnson share remarkable insights like that Russell Wilson needed to play better—we don't blame you. Good news however: Although FOX opted to ruin the fun for everyone not actually at the game, fan video has emerged online of the band's performance (from Loudwire).
Alice in Chains, hometown heroes from Seattle's iconic grunge era, performed for the crowd at CenturyLink Field, right underneath the stadium's popular "12th Man" flag.
Many of us wondered out loud about what songs the band would actually perform—although the group has a litany of popular rock numbers, most of them deal with drug abuse and the effects of said abuse, and while other grunge staples such as Soundgarden can always do a brief television performance with the recognizable "Black Hole Sun" and "Spoonman," Alice hits such as "Them Bones" tend to be a tad more doomy and gloomy.
The band ultimately played just two songs, the first being a censored version of its biggest hit "Man In The Box"—rock fans have always lamented the awkward rhyming of the line "shove my face in spit" and "buried in my pit," substituting the latter words for "s--t"—and the group ended with "Would?"
The good news: The Super Bowl will be on NBC, so we won't have to worry about FOX blocking out Katy Perry's halftime performance for Terry Bradshaw/Michael Strahan's takes on the first half.
