NFL tells SuperBowl Acts to pay up to play

The Super Bowl is a great PRODUCT. 

so if nobody pays does that mean no halftime show? 

 

yes, please. 

Unbelievable.

 

Can't these asshats see how stupid they look?

Even "Up With People" would say "Up Yours, Roger"

 

Boo. 

 

To that post.  And to Rog's latest money grab.  

Just give me a frisbee dog and a marching band, then on to the second half in a timely fashion please.

It's not completely crazy to think a band big enough to pull it off would agree to pay up to Rog, pull a SB no show, and have their popularity skyrocket for standing up the money whore and giving his greed the Johnny Football handsignal. The instant backlash to the idea tells me the masses would eat it up.

So would the lawsuit.

I like it if it keeps the Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlakes of the world away.

I hate it because there are so many 'small-time' acts that could never afford it who would put on a much better show than today's pop stars or yesterday's recycled bands.

Well, this year Janis Joplin will be performing DURING the game. What's better than that?

Why would a band pay to play?  If they're big, they don't need the publicity.  If they need the publicity, they can't afford it.  It's a catch 22 and I don't know how they'll make a significant amount of money off this.  

For an up and coming band/artist, ya I could see the benefit of the exposure and what it would do for them.

 

But for established acts who have made millions and their fan base is as set as it ever will be, they'll be giving the one fingered salute to Roger. So that likely means young artists who's audience is 20 something or under and a lot of bitching by fans over 30 wondering why __ and __ and __ aren't playing.

 

Whatever though. I'll be refilling my vodka and getting eating more bacon during the "show" anyways.

Nah, there will be some thug/rap/hiphop or some no-talent pop artist that will pay a price to "make a statement". Then Rog/NFL will get exactly what's coming to them.

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Whatever though. I'll be refilling my vodka and getting eating more bacon during the "show" anyways.

Mmmmm, bacon vodka.

The only difference between RG and the IRS is that RG gets people to pay with money they haven't made.  If pirates on the high seas could only see what is happening now they would have invented all of this a few hundred years ago. 

We need to get an innernets collection going among all football fans so we can outbid any band that would actually pay these a-holes to play at the SB.  We need to make sure the band really sucks, too.  

 

I would kick a few bucks towards watching Rog eat his own shoes while Eddie and the Vomits played a polka version of Metallica's Breadfan for 20 minutes at halftime.

 

Mark Cuban didn't become a billionaire because he's stupid.  He's going to turn out to be right about what he said.

Can't wait to see a bar band at the super bowl.

No legit, famous artist is going to pay to play

Kickstarter.

I would comment but I need to go work on my brand.

Doesn't fk'n matter to me laddies. I'd be too busy partying in celebration of our Packers' double digit ass whoopin' upon their opponents by halftime. 

 

Blue Horse Shoe loves the Superbowl Half Time Show and this guy approves

 

 

 

If this catches on across corporate America I won't be able to afford to go to work. 

Jay Cutler wants the Chris Weaver Band to play hails yeah

bagpipe thunderstuck guys needs your change!

Most of the audience is not hard core football fans. I read that the halftime show last year had 115 million viewers (more than the game itself). That kind of exposure is worth something to someone.

 

A band would not pay this exactly, I am sure that their management would do this. I am not sure how the NFL would determine the rate that they would pay but there will be people (probably not the bands themselves) that would fall all over themselves to get this gig. I am not sure if it is the kind of person/band that I would like to see play but it will happen.

 

I am not sure if you will see multiple bands/artists playing up there again (3 bands each playing 2 songs). The Red Hot Chili Peppers didn't even technically play the last half time show their song was completely piped in. The band instruments were not even plugged in. I thought that Bruno Mars had a pretty good halftime show last SB actually. Way better than the game (yawn) and the commercials.

 

I am not sure why the NFL had to make an announcement about this instead of just making it part of the process behind the scenes. Now it is a big(ish) deal.

Let's put a band together. Pay to play. Then during the performance, we'll have full blown porn on stage. It's perfect!

 

After his SB appearance last year, Bruno Mars (who was in the middle of a tour), sold the naming/promo rights to the remainder of that tour. He made out quite well from his appearance. The difference is this though:

The NFL usually pays for the halftime performers' travel and production expenses, which can run well into the millions. After the show, acts typically see huge boosts in record and ticket sales.

 

The NFL will have a problem with this... they already charge more for halftime ads than in-game ads.

The request reportedly did not go down well with the performers - which have been narrowed down to Rihanna, Katy Perry and Coldplay, according to the sources.

 

 

All part of the act of negotiating big contracts. The NFL have a really valuable product and it is only responsible of them to leverage the damned thing to the hilt. How many of you have seen Coldplay live. You will during the Super Bowl. Greater exposure.

Note that I would have watched the halftime show anyway, but certainly not with those three.

Just get rid of the halftime show already.

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How many of you have seen Coldplay live. You will during the Super Bowl.

No I won't.

Great post Cheeze ! So true.

I'll watch Katy Perry

I think we should have been paid to watch some of the BS that we've seen over the years. But I liked Mars last year, and would be down with watching Perry bounce around up there for 8-9 minutes...

I agree. Coldplay is not touring for their latest release so this is a great opportunity to grow their fanbase.

Very large and successful corporations pay large sums of money for a 30 second TV commercial during the Super Bowl because the audience is so large. Why wouldn't a band do the same thing for the half time show?

...with the volume off.

 

Bob S, exactly. If the Coldplay's of this world have a problem paying good money to promote themselves, the NFL will move on.

What I (the voice of every fan) want to see at halftime.

 

Opening....

followed by

 

Followed by

 

 

And to shut it all down

 

 

With Bon Scott (RG can make it happen dammit, he just needs to focus that energy for the good of the people). 

 

That is a show I (the voice of everyfan) would watch instead of peeing, getting nachos, peeing again, and trying to find the damn napkins.