Pay To Play - The Superbowl

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 20 Aug 2014 1:53 am

The NFL is now asking the halftime band to pay.
Before the band was not paid.
Interesting times. It's all about marketing.

Alternately, they should “be willing to contribute a portion of their post-Super Bowl tour income to the league.”

LJ Eiffert · Post by **LJ Eiffert** » 20 Aug 2014 5:07 am

C that's how the equal opportunity system works in any business that's in control of the table. Money talks and BS walks.

Uncle Leo J Eiffert Jr & the Pigeons - facebook.

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 20 Aug 2014 7:14 am

Interesting times. It's all about marketing.

Interesting times? Strange choice of words. I'd say it was all about corporate greed which obviously knows no end..

http://deadspin.com/5984731/the-only-re ... void-taxes

Here's a quote from Rolling Stone. "No decisions have been made about this year's Super Bowl Halftime performer, and as NFL spokeswoman Joanna Hunter noted, the league's contracts with artists are confidential."

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 20 Aug 2014 8:11 am

I had no idea that they made artists pay to play. Maybe that's why they get such crap to play the halftime shows.

Hook Moore · Post by **Hook Moore** » 20 Aug 2014 10:57 am

I hope they get karaoke..

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 20 Aug 2014 11:35 am

Don't you just love professional sports!!

Paul Sutherland · Post by **Paul Sutherland** » 21 Aug 2014 3:17 pm

Let's hope they get Britney Spears, and then someone turns off her autotune.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 21 Aug 2014 4:33 pm

Paul Sutherland wrote:Let's hope they get Britney Spears, and then someone turns off her autotune.

Unmute her mic? I don't think so!

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 21 Aug 2014 4:34 pm

AF of M sent out an angry email about this today.
Our Brotherhood is outraged: "Though the NFL doesn't usually pay the performing halftime acts, this seems to be a new low" but then the author commits a putative error in judgment by pointing out that "A 30-second TV commercial cost $3.8 million and there were 45 minutes of advertisements during the game" as if this fact should entitle a performer to a share of the $342 million. A better case could be made that Katy Perry should pay $3.8 million for each half minute to promote her product, just like all the others. $91 million!

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 21 Aug 2014 5:38 pm

So when the Stones played a few years ago, they didn't get paid either? Really?

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 21 Aug 2014 6:38 pm

So when the Stones played a few years ago, they didn't get paid either? Really?

or Paul McCartney? Bruce Springsteen? Beyonce'? The Who? Sting? U2?

I hope they at least got free drinks.

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 21 Aug 2014 7:03 pm

Remember, "the league's contracts with artists are confidential."

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 21 Aug 2014 7:04 pm

Actually, didn't we hear last year that Paul McCartney played at the Olympics for 1 pound?

Nick Powers · Post by **Nick Powers** » 21 Aug 2014 10:27 pm

i still can't believe this, but i heard lately that the national football league is a non-profit organization.
further comment fails me.

Clyde Mattocks · Post by **Clyde Mattocks** » 22 Aug 2014 7:25 am

Did anyone see Letterman's take on this last night? Hilarious. A clip of the halftime entertainment with Warren Buffet singing and playing the ukelele.

LJ Eiffert · Post by **LJ Eiffert** » 25 Aug 2014 7:35 am

How many members did you say we have on this forum & we change things?

Uncle Leo J Eiffert Jr.

Greg Cutshaw · Post by **Greg Cutshaw** » 25 Aug 2014 9:39 am

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2 ... /14557101/

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 26 Aug 2014 7:51 am

So, you have to pay for that "exposure"?

Maybe Janet Jackson simply couldn't afford to show us both boobs?