The National Football League wants hip-hop artist M.I.A. to fork over an additional $15.1 million for flipping the middle finger to the TV audience during her 2012 Super Bowl Halftime Show with Madonna.
NFL is requesting the large sum — in addition to the original $1.5 million that it is still seeking in damages — based on the fact that advertisers paid that much per minute for ad placement during the big game that year.
Not surprisingly, M.I.A. (real name Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam) and her team at $10 Protocol, Inc., is vehemently shooting down the latest value placement, saying that the claim “lacks any basis in law, fact, or logic.”