You may have heard the Super Bowl happened last night. Like any red-blooded American, I enjoyed not watching grown men in tights suffer one of the worst humiliations in professional sports this century. But frankly, I wish it had been a little more entertaining. Instead, we got a dull, uninspired game, bland commentary from Tom Brady, and possibly the worst halftime show the NFL has ever forced on us, according to friends. It was so bad it was almost baffling I was told.

If you wisely took a bathroom break, all you missed was Kendrick Lamar mumbling through 14 minutes of “songs” that 95% of the audience—myself included—had never heard. And we still haven’t, since nobody could understand a word he said. He wasn’t offensive or outrageous—just plain bad. In fact, I’m not sure we can even call it a performance. For all we know, he could’ve been reciting the dictionary or reading his grandma’s gumbo recipe.

His abysmal pseudo-performance brings me back to a radical suggestion: maybe the NFL should bring back halftime shows with actual bands. You know, people who play instruments and produce something called music. This used to be common in popular music, but not anymore. Maybe it’s time to bring back this ancient concept, at least for the Super Bowl halftime show.

It’s a wild idea, but it just might work.