City Of Reign":2r5niznm said:
pmedic920":2r5niznm said:
Kid, I can't provide a link but I heard bits and pieces of a story, that said the NFL was wanting performers to PAY for the right to play the Super Bowl.
Sounded crazy to me.
Anybody else hear anything about this?
I remember hearing about this too. Big reason no "big name" stars have been halftime performers as of late. Really helped out Bruno Mars though, so I don't see how they'd stray from that business model.
The NFL has historically gotten big names to perform for free by covering their hotel and flight expenses, but not paying for the performance. This season there was talk that the NFL had put feelers out to performers to see if they'd be willing to pay to play in the Super Bowl. Nothing I've heard shows that any artist has taken them up on the offer, and an article I read earlier this week quoted Perry at a college game over the weekend saying she doesn't pay to play. So if this is all true, and she is the performer, then it would seem the NFL was rejected by all the artists in their pay to play scheme. Whether or not they are still covering artist expenses, I have no idea.
IMO, I think that it's a win/win for the NFL, the artist and a win for fans if they just have the performer do their shows for free as they have in the past.
There's greed and then there's stupid greedy.....asking performers to pay to play falls under the latter