Super Bowl XLVII halftime show last song, Beyoncé told the crowd, "Thank you for this moment. God bless y'all". Beyoncé's performance was acclaimed by critics. Randall Roberts of the "Los Angeles Times" commented that Beyoncé's performance at the half time show "reconfirms her skills as a live performer, silencing anyone who might have wondered about them in the wake of a certain revelation." David Rooney of "The Hollywood Reporter" wrote: "Continuing in the vein of Madonna in 2012, [Beyoncé] steered the Super Bowl halftime show away from dad rock to embrace girl power." Melinda Newman of the website HitFix commented: "In a Super Bowl half-time
Super Bowl curse years before the game is played, without regard to the teams that qualify. Only two NFL teams have reached the Super Bowl hosted in their home region: the San Francisco 49ers, who played Super Bowl XIX in Stanford Stadium, rather than Candlestick Park, and the Los Angeles Rams, who played Super Bowl XIV in the Rose Bowl, rather than the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Besides Stanford Stadium and the Rose Bowl, the only other Super Bowl venue that was not the home stadium to an NFL team at the time was Rice Stadium in Houston: the Houston Oilers had played