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As It Happens6:36What it was like being a bushel of grass in Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl \u2018field of dreams\u2019<\/p>\n
If you squint really hard, you can see Andrew Athias performing during Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl halftime show.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Philadelphia digital marketer was none other than B93, one of hundreds of humans dressed as bushels of grass<\/a> who helped make up the sugarcane field setting<\/a> of the Puerto Rican pop star\u2019s epic performance on Sunday.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe crazy thing is that sometimes the blades of grass get into your nose and your mouth and your ears, so you have blades of grass that are just in orifices where grass should never be,\u201d Athias told As It Happens host Nil K\u00f6ksal.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cBut other than that, it’s actually pretty comfortable because it’s very well-padded.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018We couldn’t tell anybody\u2019<\/p>\n Asked how he came upon this role of a lifetime, Athias quipped: \u201cBad Bunny actually called my personal cellphone in the middle of the night and asked if I wanted to be grass for the Super Bowl,\u201d before quickly clarifying, with a chuckle: \u201cNo, there was an open casting call.\u201d<\/p>\n That casting call, he says, was extremely vague. They wanted people who were between five-foot-seven and six feet tall, and the photos and measurements to prove it.<\/p>\n \u201cThat’s literally all it was,\u201d Athias said. \u201cI didn’t know that I was going to be grass until like, you know, I flew out there and went to the third rehearsal.\u201d<\/p>\n He found out he made the cut two weeks before the Super Bowl, and rehearsal began immediately.<\/p>\n \u201cMy problem was that the Super Bowl is out in California,” he said, “and I\u2019m on the east coast.”<\/p>\n A snowstorm delayed his first attempt to fly out of Philadelphia, causing him to miss his forest rehearsal.\u00a0 But once it passed, he hopped on the first seven-hour flight to Santa Clara and got straight to work.<\/p>\n The first thing he had to do, he said, was sign a non-disclosure agreement.<\/p>\n \u201cWe couldn’t tell anybody that we were doing Bad Bunny\u2019s halftime show,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cMy family and friends were like, \u2018What are you doing out there?\u2019 I was like, \u2018The Super Bowl.\u2019 And they’re like, \u2018You have tickets?\u2019 I was, like, \u2018No, but I’m here for the Super Bowl and that’s all I can say.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Part of something bigger<\/p>\n![\"Several](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770773648_937_default.jpg\")
Performers dressed as sugarcane grass step on stage during the halftime show. (Patrick T. Fallon\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770773649_831_default.jpg\")
Andrew Athias was one of hundreds of people dressed as grass at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl 2026 halftime show (Submitted by Andrew Athias)<\/p>\n
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Celebrities emerged from a pink house during Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show. (Neilson Barnard\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n