I think both sides can be right, but it comes down to expected earnings for your degree.

Nah, but the NFL does own the Super Bowl. Take away the Super Bowl, and its just another stadium concert. So they do own the "venue" in that sense.

The NFL obviously wants a halftime show. They just want to squeeze it for money, just like everything else. If they squeeze too hard, then there won't be any takers and they'll have to back off their position. I think what you said is spot on to what they are doing, they're just not saying it in so many words:

And a lot of people watch the Stupor Bowl for the halftime show. Aren't halftime commercials more expensive than other commercials, which are already ridiculously expensive?

Okay, then don't think of it as a concert. Think of it as a 5 or 10 minute commercial during the Super Bowl.

There is still a dollar value attached to it for the performers, even if its the perception that they are in the same league as previous performers. Or in the case of older acts, the perception that they are still relevant.

Maybe, except if you consider the Super Bowl as the event, then the NFL owns the event and gets to set the terms of who is a part of it, not the stadium.

Playing your music on front of hundreds of millions of people is a concert. Regardless of what you want to call it, musicians are advertising their product on front of more eyeballs that will ever watch at the same time, with the goal of increasing their sales. That has to be worth charging some amount of money for.

Looking for something new every two to four years sounds about right. That's been my typical lifecycle, other than a couple of crap jobs I left after 1 year and the odd start-up here and there that goes under and lays everyone off.

I don't see a problem with this. No convert venue lets performers have concerts there for free. And the Super Bowl is pretty much the biggest concert venue around.

What I like about it is that there is no standing water for bugs to breed in. I had a rain barrel at one point and could never get the opening between the downspout and the barrel totally sealed, so it ended up being a total mess.

Wow...9 years old? Did you have a credit card or a debit card? I didn't get my first credit card until 95 when I graduated from college.

Lol...not anymore. I kept one open for a long time without charging to it, just in case. But I haven't had one open since 2007 or 2008 or so.

Lol...yeah, this is an internet comment so take it or leave it. It don't matter to me either way.

Once your credit history is established, the credit rating thing is overblown, IMHO. I haven't had a card in 10+ years and my credit score is in the top-tier, the same as it was before. Any credit hit you get for cancelling cards is temporary. I haven't had any problems getting interest free car loans, or…

That's pretty much what I did. I just didn't get anymore cards after killing the ones I had.

I never used store cards either. It was with various bank cards, but it was also years ago (late 90's, early aughts). Maybe its been cleaned up since then? I don't really have any desire to find out.

The Pumpkin Gutter is a great bit to have on hand around Halloween.

Or that even with paying it off every month, the credit card companies are shady operators that will find a way to make $$'s off of you, or they will cancel you. I've had a few too many times where I'm paying everything off every month and get hit with some surprise fee or they "wrongly" charge interest on something…

This seems like the best way to go, but I've gotten screwed too many times with surprise fees and crap.