# NFL wants bands to pay them to perform at Super Bowl. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 19, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-wants-bands-to-pay-them-to-perform-at-super-bowl/695939 "2014-08-19T21:00:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-wants-bands-to-pay-them-to-perform-at-super-bowl/695939/41 "2014-08-21T12:08:42Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > I never promised you a Rose Bowl. I beg your pardon. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-wants-bands-to-pay-them-to-perform-at-super-bowl/695939/42 "2014-08-21T12:25:37Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > I wouldn’t give those fat cats a dime. They can organize their own band for all I care. What genre are you? ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-wants-bands-to-pay-them-to-perform-at-super-bowl/695939/43 "2014-08-21T13:15:39Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Me neither. I mean, do they want to win me over, or don’t they? You’re already watching, enough to know that they don’t do it anymore. Halftime is used to update the viewer on other games, and to recap the first half action. But the answer to your question is no. They don’t want to win over the 24 people in America who care about the marching band. They’d rather not lose the millions that are already watching. College football viewership is growing like crazy. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-wants-bands-to-pay-them-to-perform-at-super-bowl/695939/44 "2014-08-21T15:59:48Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > What genre are you? All of the good ones which inherently make little money? In all seriousness: To echo **gnoitall** , anyone with the money, that the NFL isn’t willing to pay in order to draw viewers, isn’t worth watching. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-wants-bands-to-pay-them-to-perform-at-super-bowl/695939/45 "2014-08-21T16:13:44Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > You’re already watching, enough to know that they don’t do it anymore. Halftime is used to update the viewer on other games, and to recap the first half action. See, this makes no sense to me. Even if I did enjoy watching my favored college team play football, why would I care about the games that my team isn’t playing in? ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-wants-bands-to-pay-them-to-perform-at-super-bowl/695939/46 "2014-08-21T16:50:23Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > See, this makes no sense to me. Even if I did enjoy watching my favored college team play football, why would I care about the games that my team isn’t playing in? No doubt for the same reasons baseball stadiums have out-of-town scoreboards 1. Some people follow more than one team ( My husband follows the Yankees and the Mets, Jets and the Giants) 2)Some people like to know if the rival team lost. 1. (I don’t know football, much less college football so this may not apply) Some people follow the standings and want to know whether their team has moved up or down or is likely to move up or down based on how another game is going. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-wants-bands-to-pay-them-to-perform-at-super-bowl/695939/47 "2014-08-21T19:23:44Z")
I say it’s a dumb move, but if they want to try I’m not going to lose any sleep over it. Well, actually I might, because the thought of Wierd Al doing a halftime show was _sweet_, and that ain’t gonna happen if he’ll have to pay (presumably) big bucks to do so. I predict the most likely outcome is we’ll be stuck with fossilized has-been performers who have the money to perform, and are desperately trying to stay relevant. People like Madonna or the Rolling Stones. Yeah they were great, A list performers…30 or 40 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-wants-bands-to-pay-them-to-perform-at-super-bowl/695939/48 "2014-08-21T20:23:26Z")
I decided a little while back that i really don’t like the NFL as an organization, and i don’t want to support them anymore. Ray Rice’s slap on the wrist was probably the final straw, but there are plenty of other things i don’t like about it. I’m not going to pretend it will be easy. I really like football. But i’m going to see if i can stick it out, and not follow the NFL at all this year. This effort to get bands to pay is just one more little chapter in the long tale of their dickishness. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-wants-bands-to-pay-them-to-perform-at-super-bowl/695939/49 "2014-08-21T20:46:50Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > the half time show is for casual fans anyway > > maybe they can just get rid of it and have a proper length halftime to get back to the action I have never seen more than 5 seconds of any SB half-time show. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-wants-bands-to-pay-them-to-perform-at-super-bowl/695939/50 "2014-08-22T12:07:22Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > See, this makes no sense to me. Even if I did enjoy watching my favored college team play football, why would I care about the games that my team isn’t playing in? Is this a serious question? In college football, the performances of countless other teams have a huge effect on your team’s season. The same goes for every other sport on the planet. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-wants-bands-to-pay-them-to-perform-at-super-bowl/695939/51 "2014-08-23T04:02:00Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > The NFL is going to crash and burn, and soon. Might as well suck as much money out of the old pig as they can in the meantime. I don’t see the NFL crashing and burning anytime soon. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I think they should just get a marching band to come out on the field, and make pictures and words with the way they position themselves on the field. While they play music. > > They never show that part on TV any more; WTF is up with that? That sounds like a good idea to me. Do something like have the marching band from the college National Championship play the following year’s Super Bowl. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-wants-bands-to-pay-them-to-perform-at-super-bowl/695939/52 "2014-08-23T04:15:50Z")
My prediction is that now that the press is running with the “pay to play” story, it won’t take long for the NFL to claim that they were kidding about the fees, and quietly drop the whole idea. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-wants-bands-to-pay-them-to-perform-at-super-bowl/695939/53 "2014-08-23T05:01:58Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > My prediction is that now that the press is running with the “pay to play” story, it won’t take long for the NFL to claim that they were kidding about the fees, and quietly drop the whole idea. I’d hope so. But I wouldn’t bet against the NFL moving towards corporate sponsors for the musical acts, i.e. “And now, Budweiser, the beer that made Milwaukee famous, presents Katie Perry!” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-wants-bands-to-pay-them-to-perform-at-super-bowl/695939/54 "2014-08-23T09:39:40Z")
Schlitz is alleged to have been the beer that made Milwaukee famous. MilwaukIE is in Oregon, and I’m not sure if it actually IS famous. If it is, though, and IF a beer is responsible it’s probably some craft beer from a local microbrewery. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-wants-bands-to-pay-them-to-perform-at-super-bowl/695939.md?page=2)