NFL Goes for BLOOD in M.I.A. Lawsuit
Nearly two years after M.I.A. stuck up her middle finger while performing in Madonna’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, the NFL has CLAPPING BACK with claim seeking $15.1 million in “restitution”!
CelebNMusic247.com has learned via the The Hollywood Reporter that the NFL is asking for an additional $15.1 million on top of the already $1.5 million demand from M.I.A. for allegedly breaching her performance contract.
For the past couple years M.I.A. and the NFL have been locked in an arbitration battle since March 2012 after the league filed a complaint with the American Arbitration Association.
The league is seeking ‘restitution” for “the alleged value of public exposure she received by appearing for an approximately two minute segment during Madonna’s performance.” Moreover, the Reporter bullets “the figure is based on what advertisers would have paid for ads during this time.”
A rep for “Bad Girls” rapper repsonds saying:
”The claim for restitution lacks any basis in law, fact, or logic.” They add that the ”continued pursuit of this proceeding is transparently an exercise by the NFL intended solely to bully and make an example of Respondents for daring to challenge NFL.”
M.I.A.’s representatives point to other Super Bowl Halftime performances that pushed the boundaries of “wholesomeness,” citing examples such as when Michael Jackson grabbed his genitalia while singing “Billie Jean.”
Pop icon Prince caressing his guitar neck “as if stroking an erect oversized phallus” and Madonna’s own performance, which featured “scenes of very young women dancers (possibly not even of adult age) poised in reclining positions, with their feet and hands and/or shoulders planted on the ground behind them.”
M.I.A.’s team is using any and every angle possible to cut the $16.6 million demand down on to zero! Theyr’re even using the NFL’s recent implementation of a 15-yard penalty for a player who used the “N-word” in contrast to their $16.6 million demand.
We’re not sure if thcourt system is buying any of it.
M.I.A. previously said the middle finger was a “display of female empowerment” and a spiritual gesture to the Hindu Goddess Matangi.
Oh is that what it means M.I.A., because the rest of the world thought it was clearly defined as a FU to anyone the gesture is directed at.
Nice try though.
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- MIA releases statement on Superbowl “offensive gesture” lawsuit, reveals cover art for ‘Matangi’ (brooklynvegan.com)
- M.I.A.: I’m going to Super Bowl (belfasttelegraph.co.uk)
- M.I.A. Responds to NFL Lawsuit: Cheerleaders Are More Offensive Than My Middle Finger (eonline.com)
