{"id":446236,"date":"2026-02-03T08:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/446236\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T08:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:55:10","slug":"how-roger-goodell-expects-bad-bunny-to-use-super-bowl-2026-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/446236\/","title":{"rendered":"How Roger Goodell expects Bad Bunny to use Super Bowl 2026 platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL commissioner Roger Goodell doesn\u2019t expect Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl performance to take a political turn Sunday when the Grammy-winning artist takes the stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Goodell addressed the matter Monday night when he spoke with reporters six days ahead of the Super Bowl and a day after Bad Bunny called out ICE during his Grammy speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NFL commissioner said he expects the music sensation to unite the crowd and not divide when he performs at Levi\u2019s Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Roger Goodell is asked whether or not there will be any ICE enforcement operations at the Super Bowl and also addresses Bad Bunny&#8217;s remarks about ICE at last night&#8217;s Grammy Awards. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FxGcbiIbZP\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/FxGcbiIbZP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/2018471834115604616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBad Bunny, and I think that was demonstrated last night, is one of the great artists in the world,\u201d Goodell said. \u201cThat\u2019s one of the reasons we chose him. But the other reason is he understood the platform he was on and that this platform is used to unite people and to be able to bring people together with their creativity, with their talents and to be able to use this moment to do that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think artists in the past have done that. I think Bad Bunny understands it and I think he\u2019ll have a great performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bad Bunny\u2019s performance at the Super Bowl has been a lightning rod since he was announced, with conservatives expressing anger over the NFL\u2019s decision to have him perform.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38369001\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bad-bunny-accepts-album-year-120258056.jpg\" alt=\"Bad Bunny accepts the Album of the Year award at the 68th GRAMMY Awards.\" class=\"wp-image-38369001\"  \/>Bad Bunny accepts the Album of the Year award for \u201cDeB\u00cd TiRAR M\u00e1S FOToS\u201d onstage during the 68th GRAMMY Awards. Getty Images for The Recording Academy<\/p>\n<p>Turning Point USA even announced it would be holding its own halftime show to counter the league\u2019s programming, with Kid Rock serving as the headliner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to an anonymous player survey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7011620\/2026\/02\/02\/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-nfl-player-poll\/?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">conducted by The Athletic<\/a>, 58.6 percent of NFL players surveyed liked the pick of Bad Bunny for the halftime show and 41.1 percent did not like it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bad Bunny opened his album of the year speech at the Grammys on Sunday by blasting ICE, saying \u201cICE out\u201d and that \u201cwe are not savages, we\u2019re not animals, we\u2019re not aliens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are humans and we are Americans. I know it\u2019s tough not to hate these days,\u201d he said. \u201cThe hate gets more powerful with more hate. The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love. So please, we need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL commissioner Roger Goodell doesn\u2019t expect Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl performance to take a political turn Sunday when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5897,88,59240,349,35559,99,1803,111437],"class_list":{"0":"post-446236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bad-bunny","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-halftime-show","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-roger-goodell","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-super-bowl","15":"tag-super-bowl-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}