No one does it like Dolly Parton. On November 23, the 77-year-old country music legend celebrated Thanksgiving by giving the halftime show performance of a lifetime during the Dallas Cowboys home game against the Washington Commanders at at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
In a video shared by the NFL on TikTok, you can see that Parton headlined the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Kickoff Halftime Show in a full Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders uniform, complete with the famous white hot pants, blue crop top, and matching star-spangled white vest, all of which she wore over a sparkling nude body suit. “She just keeps giving,” the NFL captioned one clip of Parton singing “9 to 5” with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. They also posted a video of Parton performing “Jolene.”
Do we dare ask for a Dolly Parton Super Bowl Halftime show? “I’ve been offered that many times,” Parton recently told The Hollywood Reporter. “I couldn’t do it because of other things, or I just didn’t think I was big enough to do it—to do that big of a production. When you think about those shows, those are big, big productions. I’ve never done anything with that big of a production. I don’t know if I could have. I think at the time that’s what I was thinking.”
There’s still hope. With the release of her new album Rockstar, she says it would “make more sense.” My fingers are so crossed.
