I beg your pardon.
What genre are you?
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.
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.
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
- 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.
- (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.
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.
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.
I have never seen more than 5 seconds of any SB half-time show.
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.
I don’t see the NFL crashing and burning anytime soon.
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. 
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!”
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.