The Valenti Show with Rico - Musical acts who have turned down the Super Bowl halftime show
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Roberto asks Mike and Rico if they know the bands who have turned down the opportunity to perform in the Super Bowl halftime show.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, that drop is completely preposterous, but one thing we want to do all week leading up to the Super Bowl this weekend and some will be sports some will not. |
| 0:09.0 | But we're going to do a little football Super Bowl grab bag with Roberto. He is the king of the list. He is the king of the nonsense. |
| 0:16.0 | And therefore seven or eight minutes a day, little Super Bowl preview as the week goes along. Let's see what Roberto has for us today. |
| 0:25.0 | All right, David, let me get in a little bit of that big game music. |
| 0:30.0 | Oh, my, oh, my, I think this comes from Super Bowl one. |
| 0:34.0 | Was this up with people? My goodness. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, they performed at the Super Bowl. |
| 0:40.0 | What is this? |
| 0:41.0 | This is Chief Packers got Hank Stramina in a chief blazer. That's right. |
| 0:46.0 | Okay, so obviously half time show is always a big thing every year, right? |
| 0:50.0 | This Sunday we have Rihanna making her half time debut. |
| 0:55.0 | But do you actually actually turn down to perform in 2019? |
| 1:00.0 | And that got me to looking into all the artists that have said no to the Super Bowl. |
| 1:05.0 | To the Super Bowl half time. And I did a little research on that. |
| 1:08.0 | But another interesting fact before we get into that is how much does the NFL pay an artist for a half time performance? |
| 1:16.0 | I thought the artist got nothing or had to pay to do it. |
| 1:20.0 | That is correct. |
| 1:21.0 | Zero dollars are paid to the artist to play the Super Bowl half time. |
| 1:25.0 | But NFL's perception of that is value. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, for one, the NFL's agreement to cover all production costs is not trivial. |
| 1:33.0 | Reports state these costs can exceed 10 million dollars for the one performance. |
| 1:38.0 | All right, all I will say and I know Rico will judge me. David will judge me. Kenny won't. |
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