M.I.A., NFL Lawsuit: 'Matangi' Singer Plans To Publicly Attack League Over Super Bowl XLVI Controversy

As you more than likely don't remember, M.I.A. briefly flipped off the camera during her halftime show performance at Super Bowl XLVI.

Because this is America, and filling a 24-hour news cycle is difficult unless you want to pony up the cash to send reporters to places where actual news is happening, grown adults pretended to be outraged by a brief glimpse of a finger during the championship of a sport where millionaires give each other permanent brain damage and tear each other to pieces for three hours every week.

While the viewers have put their outrage aside, the NFL has a memory to rival Peppridge Farm's and is still hounding the Matangi singer about the incident, asking for $1.5 million and a public apology in a lawsuit filed early in 2012 that is still raging.

Via THR:

In the 18 months since, the 38-year-old M.I.A. (born Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam) has been waging a secret legal war with the NFL over what happened at Super Bowl XLVI. Last week, league lawyers continued their push to have her deemed liable for her actions on summary judgment before moving to a trial for damages.

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she had hoped to settle the case privately once it became clear that neither NBC nor the FCC were ever going to make a stink over what the NFL says in legal papers was an "offensive gesture ... in flagrant disregard for the values that form the cornerstone of the NFL brand and the Super Bowl."

M.I.A.'s lawyer Howard King explained how M.I.A. plans to handle the case from here on out.

"She is going to go public with an explanation of how ridiculous it was for the NFL and its fans to devote such furor to this incident, while ignoring the genocide occurring in her home country and several other countries, topics she frequently speaks to," he said.

King also added that the league's claims of "wholesomeness" were "hilarious" given the that many players run afoul of the law.