How does the NFL pick the band for the Super Bowl halftime show?

[jmowreader]

Coldplay is who you get when Nickelback is too obvious. "Uhh...I know, let's pick the band whose greatest hit is this orchestral-sounding thing about a deposed monarch!" Come on guys, next year get someone who at least has fun songs...Jimmy Buffett would probably do it.

[clarice]

1. They pick the blandest,oldest,safest, white bread band that they can think of.nt

[rocktivity]

2. Nowadays, it goes to the highest bidder.

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The NFL now accepts "financial contributions" to do the halftime show. And acts as big as Beyonce can probably write it off as a business expense for promoting their upcoming albums and tours.

A real rock band would have raised hell and walked when Beyonce was brought on board. Coldplay has seven #1 albums to their credit, which have sold an average of 12 million copies EACH. I'm supposed to believe they didn't have twenty minutes worth of material?


rocktivity

[Initech]

5. I don't think we'll see a real rock band do the halftime show any time soon.

And by that I mean someone like the Foo Fighters or Muse. I'm sure that Dave would play with the Foos backing Beyonce if he got the chance, but I doubt any self respecting musician would touch such a blatantly corporate sponsored gig like that.

[Taitertots]

3. Jimmy Buffet would be an amazingly hilarious halftime show

But if he does it once, he needs to do it every year for at least a decade.

Coldplay is 2000's jimmy buffet. Just go right to the source.

[gratuitous]

4. The super-secret process

"Let's see . . . which band would piss off jmowreader the most?" "Nickelback?" "No, we'd have riots in the streets. Focus, people." "Coldplay?" "Perfect! Book 'em Danno." The person at NFL headquarters in charge of contracting with the entertainment is named Dan O'Riley, Danno to his friends.

[jmowreader]

6. Its not that they pissed me off, Coldplay is a good band

However, it's not an exciting band. They're what you play as background music at Home Depot.

If I had my druthers I'd book Iron Maiden just to watch the NFL shit themselves when they played Hallowed Be Thy Name:

(Next year's Super Bowl is in Texas...)