Posted on 12/04/2015 6:51:42 AM PST by C19fan
he Super Bowl is an annual celebration of Just Guy Things: homoerotic tight pants, dude-on-dude grappling, sports, balls, brews, and chili. Conversely, the Super Bowl halftime show is an incredibly flamboyant tribute to all things over the top, featuring big-name celebrities, elaborate pyrotechnics, and some of the best wardrobes (and wardrobe malfunctions) this side of the 2001 VMAs. No one has ever adequately explained the pairing of these two inherently disparate spectacles, and it’s difficult to imagine the Venn diagram of dedicated sports enthusiasts and people who are psyched to watch an extended Bruno Mars medley. Nonetheless we, the non-sports fans of America, are annually grateful for the Super Bowl halftime show, the saving grace of every game and the highlight of every Super Bowl party (also, a reassuring reminder that we’ve already made it through half of the Super Bowl).
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Lena Dunham...that figures.
She (Zimmerman) apparently likes the word homoerotic. She's used it to refer to duels in movies, and she claims that men throw tantrums if they're not the center of attention during conversations.
I bet she's beating off men with a stick./S
I still do, quite the fruity description
LOL
Transwhatever, maybe?
lol, I’d do that too (boot in the screen)
Actually the NFL really doesn’t care about the halftime show. They made their money selling the broadcast rights, the network likes a good halftime show, helps sell more ads. The league neither makes nor spends money on the halftime.
The precise terms of the deal between the NFL and the broadcasters are not publicly disclosed so it is impossible to know how payments to the NFL are structured and what obligations the NFL is under as to the halftime show. The economics of the things are indisputable though: the larger and better the TV audience the more the NFL can insist on getting paid. This gives the NFL a potent reason to put on a halftime show with the largest audience and the best possible advertising demographics.
She jus’ wanna be a dirty little fat girl too.
Lena’s envy.
I want marching bands, trumpets, fireworks.
Not a whiny bunch like Coldplay.
Actually up until this year when the NFL gave up their tax exempt status their books were opened and we knew quite a bit of the details of the agreements. And since no new contracts have been signed since then we actually DO know how payments to the NFL are structured and what obligation the NFL is under at the halftime show. And actually quite a bit of this was discussed in the aftermath of the wardrobe malfunction. Simple put, the NFL does not participate in the halftime show. It’s for the network and the stadium to work out, the network does most of the design and sign up, the stadium tells them whether or not that could actually work. The artists don’t get paid, and they also don’t pay (there was some talk by the league last year about making the artists pay, but that sunk fast).
The halftime show can’t actually generate enough money for the NFL to actually care. That’s part of why last year’s talk about making the artists pay died. The NFL pulls in 5 BILLION dollars a year on the TV contracts alone, and part of how they pull that off is the prize of the SB. It’s a big revenue and self promotion opportunity for the networks, it’s pretty much the only way they turn a profit on their NFL contracts. So the league leaves it alone, and lets the networks use it for themselves. That’s a big part of why CBS had The Who (providers of the theme songs for 4 CBS shows) a few years ago, it was a massive act of self promotion.
“Starr brings ‘em up. Sets. Quick snap, a fake to Hornung, gives to Taylor and Jimmy hauls 4 Giants on his back into the end zone from the 5 yard line for his 3rd. Touchdown today!!!! Oh those Packers! They are now up 28-0!”
Of necessity, that influences the choice of halftime acts, and behind those decisions is a legion of marketing experts and a mass of sophisticated audience studies. That is part of the fundamental expertise that sustains broadcast networks, knowing how to get eyeballs to watch TV shows and their ads, with advertisers assured that the owners of those eyeballs are their desired target audience.
Except you were saying the LEAGUE controlled it, and I pointed out they didn’t.
The premise of the article was that the NFL picked the act. My point was that halftime act selection is guided by the goal of maximizing ad revenue by attracting a large and desirable audience demographic.
No, the article simply announced who was selected, it did not say who did it. YOU said that the halftime show was a revenue generator for the league (”For the NFL, halftime is the Superbowl’s great money spinner”) and I pointed out that the league does not make money on the halftime show. Face it, you were wrong. There’s no shame in being wrong, nobody can have all the facts, there is shame in being unable to admit it.
I thought Bruno Mars was a shoe.
As for what the article said about who decides on Super Bowl acts, ponder the implications of the following quote from it: "In fact, West was apparently interested in the 2016 gig - NFL, why won't you let Kanye be great?" I take this to mean that the NFL made the decision.
You just can’t admit you were wrong can you? Sad. But we are clearly done.
All that sentence shows is that the author of the article didn’t bother to do any research.
Coldplay to headline Super Bowl 50 halftime show
USA TODAY Sports 10:01 p.m. EST December 3, 2015
Long before the participating teams are set, one act is booked for the Super Bowl.
Coldplay will perform at the Super Bowl 50 halftime show on Feb. 7 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., the NFL announced Thursday.
The news was first reported by TheWall Street Journal.
The British rock band, responsible for top hits such as Yellow and Viva La Vida, have their latest album, A HeadFull of Dreams, set to release Friday.
Katy Perry, Lenny Kravitz and Missy Elliott played last year's Super Bowl halftime show.
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