Sports fans will get some funk with their football when groundbreaking star Prince plays the Super Bowl XLI halftime show on Feb. 4 at Dolphin Stadium, the NFL announced Sunday. 

With the sometimes salacious Purple Rain-maker, the NFL moves into a slightly riskier zone than with the acts who have starred in sports' biggest entertainment event since the infamous 2004 show, when Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction" ignited a national controversy and earned CBS a $550,000 fine from the FCC. (The network is challenging the fine in court - and MTV hasn't been invited back to produce another show).