No, the NFL Isn’t Reconsidering Bad Bunny for Super Bowl Halftime Show: ‘It’s Carefully Thought Through’

The NFL is lasting by Bad Bunny arsenic adjacent year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show headliner, careless of the contention surrounding the decision.

While speaking to property connected Tuesday (Oct. 21), the league’s commissioner, Roger Goodell dismissed questions astir whether the NFL would reconsider the enactment of Benito to execute astatine the large crippled successful February. “He’s 1 of the starring and astir fashionable entertainers successful the world,” helium said, according to CBS Sports. “That’s what we effort to achieve.”

“It’s an important signifier for us,” Goodell continued. “It’s an important constituent to the amusement value. It’s cautiously thought through.”

He besides pointed out: “I don’t deliberation we’re ever selected an creator without immoderate blowback oregon criticism.”

The commissioner’s comments travel amid backlash from definite radical — chiefly MAGA conservatives — who person taken contented with the prime of a Spanish-speaking instrumentalist to execute astatine halftime. President Donald Trump called it “absolutely ridiculous,” portion White House advisor Corey Lewandowski said, “It’s truthful shameful they’ve decided to prime idiosyncratic who seems to hatred America truthful overmuch to correspond them astatine the Halftime Show.”

The chart-topping singer-rapper — who is from Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States — has ne'er indicated that helium hates America. He has, however, expressed his hesitance to circuit successful the U.S. owed to concerns that ICE mightiness people his audiences, a fearfulness that Lewandowski further stoked by adding successful an October interrogation that migration enforcement agents would beryllium contiguous astatine the Super Bowl.

“There is obscurity you tin supply harmless haven to radical who are successful this state illegally,” the advisor said astatine the time. “Not the Super Bowl and obscurity else. We volition find you and apprehend you and enactment you successful a detention installation and deport you.”

Turning Point USA, an ultraconservative younker enactment founded by the precocious Charlie Kirk, besides announced its volition to big an alternate halftime show retired of protest.

But portion determination is simply a large and vocal radical speaking retired against Bad Bunny’s assignment arsenic 2026 halftime headliner, countless others — from Shaboozey to

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