Super Bowl Boycott Backlash Grows After NFL Taps Anti-AMERICA Pop Star Bad Bunny for Halftime Show
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The NFL is facing growing boycott calls after announcing its decision to tap anti-Trump pop megastar Bad Bunny as the headliner for next year’s Super Bowl halftime show.
Social media erupted this week when the Puerto Rican rapper, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, was announced as the main attraction for Super Bowl LX coming up next February.
Photos began circulating showing the singer dressed in a pink mini skirt and high heels and another in a voluminous white dress as football fans blasted the NFL for once again not understanding their own audience.
Now a boycott is warming on social media as fans express outrage over the NFL’s tone deaf entertainment pick.
Further enflaming Americans, the rapper recently said he would no longer perform concerts in the U.S. because he opposes Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
Bad Bunny has been a virulent critic of President Trump and backed Kamala Harris just months before she lost last year’s presidential election.
Super Bowl Boycott Backlash Grows After NFL Taps Anti-AMERICA Pop Star Bad Bunny for Halftime Show
The once-sacred American tradition of the Super Bowl Halftime Show has officially become a platform for virtue-signaling and cultural vandalism, and the NFL deserves every ounce of the growing boycott backlash. The selection of Bad Bunny, a foreign-language reggaeton star whose primary claim to fame in the political sphere is his outspoken, often outright hostile, anti-American stance, is not a mistake—it is a calculated, deeply cynical insult to the very audience that built the league.
This isn’t about music taste. It’s about who gets to stand on the most watched stage in American entertainment. The NFL, desperate to appear “woke” and chase after a younger, more global audience, has decided that the best representation of this country’s biggest night is an individual who has openly—and proudly—criticized our institutions, our leadership, and even skirted touring American cities citing concerns over US federal agents. The sheer hypocrisy is staggering. He is willing to take the massive paycheck and global spotlight provided by this American spectacle, yet simultaneously treats the country and its borders with contempt. The message from the NFL is clear: your values, your language, and your patriotism are secondary to our bottom line.
A significant, and frankly justified, pushback is already underway. Millions of Americans who view the Super Bowl as a brief, unifying escape from political division are watching the NFL inject it with the very divisiveness they sought to avoid. They are being told that the artist headlining their national championship should be one who actively campaigns against the interests of a large segment of its fan base. The push to replace this controversial pick with a truly American icon, someone who genuinely represents the nation and its traditions like country music legend George Strait, is not just a plea for better music; it is a desperate demand for respect.
The NFL’s defense of this tone-deaf decision—claiming it’s a move for “global appeal”—is an obvious smokescreen. It’s a self-serving attempt to paper over a political pandering that spits in the face of millions of loyal, long-time fans. The league had an opportunity to unite. Instead, they chose to divide, prioritizing the hollow praise of cultural elites over the enduring loyalty of the heartland. This is the new American entertainment landscape: where defiance is rewarded, and tradition is discarded. The boycott is not the problem; it is the predictable, necessary response to a league that has clearly forgotten whose game this actually is.
The NFL’s relentless march toward cultural irrelevance, driven by its fear of being labeled anything other than “progressive,” has just taken its most egregious step yet. Fans are now left with a choice: reward the blatant contempt for core American values by watching, or send a loud, unmistakable signal that their patriotism, their culture, and their loyalty cannot be bought and sold for cheap global publicity. The Super Bowl Halftime Show is no longer a celebration; it’s a political battleground, and the NFL is losing its base one hypocritical performance choice at a time.
