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Bad Bunny performs during halftime of Super Bowl 60 between the New England Patriots and the Seattle\u00a0Seahawks, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, Calif.<\/p>\n
Charlie Riedel\/AP<\/p>\n
Every year, thousands of Americans send angry emails to the Federal Communications Commission to complain about something they found objectionable during the Super Bowl halftime show. The big game at\u00a0Levi\u2019s Stadium<\/a>, with Bad Bunny<\/a> as the musical headliner, was certainly no different.<\/p>\n \u201cExplicit language and nasty inappropriate twirking,\u201d wrote one angry viewer from Wheeling, West Virginia. \u201cHope you all know that people do know more than one language. For Bad Bunny to get up there a single about women and his penis and other sexual innuendo in Spanish is absolutely disgusting. NFL should be ashamed of themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n With these complaints comes an additional tradition: the FCC\u2019s annual release of these messages, often courtesy of reporters who ask for them through public information requests. Many of the upset Americans whose words will appear in this article come from a link, and variations of it, first shared by sports reporter Matt Brown<\/a>, who publishes the Extra Points newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Those who have spent any amount of time on social media leading up to, during and after Bad Bunny\u2019s performance could probably guess what some of these complaints harped on. The basic ones ranged from the songs being in a language the viewer couldn\u2019t understand to the sexual nature of the dancing and even the clothing, or perceived lack thereof, the dancers wore. Others complained about what the lyrics were about after they, or someone online, translated them into English from Spanish. A fair number of the complaints seemed generated by artificial intelligence, as they followed a stilted template. For those who wrote their angry emails themselves, the main sticking point was about the \u201cvulgar\u201d and \u201cexplicit\u201d nature of some of the dance moves and song lyrics \u2014 each word was mentioned over 600 times \u2014 like one complainant from Los Angeles exemplified.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Super bowl 2026 broke a new low of indecency,\u201d the email reads. \u201cIt shows two men grinding on each other, on another scene a man robbing his genitals, another scene portraying a woman’s rear being rubbed by a man’s genitals, all of it disgusting for a day family show.\u201d<\/p>\n Another viewer from Apple Valley, Minnesota, went as far to say that \u201cJanet Jackson\u2019s \u2018wardrobe failure\u2019 pales in comparison\u201d in terms of inappropriateness. One person in Bremerton, Washington, took a tally of the objectionable words, including \u201c(6) F words, a reference to f**king chicks, a reference to the artists d*ck on fire, and doing coke and rolling blunts.\u201d A Las Vegas resident even bemoaned that they had to \u201cmake all of my children go into the next room\u201d during the show, calling it \u201cthe most disturbing thing I\u2019ve witnessed on live TV in a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Since all of these messages were labeled by region, SFGATE tallied how many of them came from the Golden State itself. In total, 156 emails came from Californians, with a majority focusing on Bad Bunny; other residents complained about the lack of closed captioning during commercials and the airing of the \u201cScream 7\u201d trailer.\u00a0The\u00a0Bay Area had limited representation among the complaints.\u00a0Pleasanton in the East Bay led the region with four, but only one was from San Francisco, only one\u00a0was from\u00a0Milpitas, and none were from Santa Clara, where the Super Bowl took place. These emails also weren\u2019t as viscerally angry as some of the complaints from other parts of the state.<\/p>\n \u201cThe halftime show on Sunday was rife with savagely pornographic lyrics,\u201d wrote an angry Californian from Carmel Valley.\u00a0\u201cThe fact that they were delivered in Spanish is irrelevant. Most Americans don\u2019t understand Spanish, so millions looked up the lyrics online. Even if some were left out of the performance, almost no Americans knew. Instead, they read them. Kids read those indecent lyrics! \u2026 America tunes in because this is the best that network TV has to offer. NBC & the NFL broke that covenant and they must be held to account.\u201d<\/p>\n But in searching for emails from California, SFGATE stumbled upon emails that simply mentioned the state out of anger, like one viewer from Post Falls, Idaho did.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n \u201cBad Buny and GAGA are symptomatic of the issues I encountered when living in Santa Clara County as a homeowner at 684 Baron Place, Milpitas, California,\u201d they wrote. \u201cThere is a militant extremist spanish influence present at the University of Santa Clara, a major jesuit university in the United States of America. It was prevalent when I attended for a short time in 1968.\u201d<\/p>\n If you\u2019d like to see the full scope of the complaints, you can look through the more than 2,000 emails the FCC<\/a> published<\/a> in five<\/a> separate<\/a> parts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bad Bunny performs during halftime of Super Bowl 60 between the New England Patriots and the Seattle\u00a0Seahawks, Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,13472,99],"class_list":["post-632089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sfgsports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632089","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=632089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n