Last year President Trump became the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl. This year he is skipping the game. You should too.
Trump told the New York Post in a January 23 interview that the blockbuster event, set for February 8 in California, is “just too far away.” Proximity isn’t an issue for the many millions who will be tuning in on TV and streaming (the global total is around 180–190 million; last year’s game boasted a record American audience of 127.7 million viewers), but they should boycott it altogether because the National Football League leadership is openly dismissive of the interests and desires of American football fans.
As if it weren’t enough that the NFL disrespected the game’s fans in years past by coddling America-hating radicals like Colin Kaepernick who politicized season after season by “taking a knee” during the playing of the national anthem, now the organization is hiring halftime performers who are further alienating fans: Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny and Green Day, one of the most overrated rock bands in history.
Trump himself expressed his distaste for the musical acts scheduled for the event (although noting that they weren’t a factor in his decision not to attend): “I’m anti-them,” said the president. “I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible.”
Bad Bunny – real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio – is apparently one of the most popular musicians in the world. He was Spotify’s most listened-to artist globally last year for the fourth time – streamed more than 60 million times daily, according to USA TODAY.
For his latest world tour, he didn’t schedule any stops in the United States, he told I-D magazine, because “like, f***ing ICE could be outside [his concert].” That gives you an idea of what kind of audience he draws in the United States.
According to celebrity gossip site RadarOnline, the rapper, who refuses to speak or sing in English, “lives to push envelopes.” (I ask you, is there any artist more boring than one who thinks the point of art is to “push envelopes”?) He reportedly intends to make his Super Bowl halftime appearance “as queer as possible,” paying “tribute to generations of queer activists, drag performers, and cultural icons,” according to The Pink News. According to a stylist connected to Bad Bunny, “He is 100 percent going to wear a dress. A political thunderbolt disguised as couture.” Another source added, “He’s not playing it safe. The NFL has no idea what’s coming. Zero.”
Actually, the NFL, or at least its leadership, knows full well what they’re getting with Bad Bunny. That’s the reason they selected him and defend him in the face of nationwide outrage. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell insists that Bad Bunny’s performance will “unite” people: “It’s carefully thought through. I’m not sure we’ve ever selected an artist where we didn’t have some blowback or criticism. It’s pretty hard to do when you have literally hundreds of millions of people that are watching…”
Really? I don’t recall any controversy or outrage over the choices of Michael Jackson, Shania Twain, Aerosmith, Prince, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, or Bruce Springsteen, to name just a few English-speaking American performers over the years (although admittedly, the five Up With People Super Bowl appearances in the ‘70s and ‘80s were cringy and ill-advised).
Goodell went on to say, “We’re confident it’s going to be a great show. [Bad Bunny] understands the platform that he’s on, and I think it’s going to be exciting and a united moment.”
Really? Goodell thinks Bad Bunny rubbing the noses of American football fans in his gender-bending perversity is going to be a uniting moment?
And then there’s Green Day, which will kick off the Super Bowl’s opening ceremony. Petite frontman Billie Joe Armstrong is predictably an outspoken critic of Trump and the President’s supporters. During a New Year’s Eve performance two years ago, Armstrong altered the lyrics of the group’s forgettable song “American Idiot” from “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda.”
Armstrong, who pathetically still affects a punk hairstyle and attitude even though he is in his mid-50s, has also blasted America as a “miserable f***ing excuse for a country.” In the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, he declared, “F*** America. I’m f***ing renouncing my citizenship.” As always with America-hating celebrities who virtue-signal similar contempt for the country and for the citizens who made them rich and famous, he has not followed through on this promise. He still lives in the country he openly despises.
These are the anti-Americans the NFL chose to entertain American football fans in the biggest game – the biggest cultural event – of the year. The NFL hates you.
Like baseball, football is a quintessentially American game. Elsewhere in the world, “football” refers to soccer, a game in which players hurl themselves to the ground in faux agony anytime a breeze blows; on our shores, football refers to gridiron combat waged by squads of modern gladiators. The NFL may be lusting after a bigger international audience – the 2024 game saw a 10% increase in non-U.S. viewership compared to prior years, reflecting expanding interest abroad – but their globalist greed threatens to undercut their American core audience. No true American football fan wants to see a halftime show featuring a non-English-speaking rapper flouncing around in a dress and celebrating LGBTQ “icons,” whoever they are. The only people who want to see that are gender ideologues who don’t know a first down from a touchdown, and who get a thrill up their leg at the idea of queering – subverting – an institution as American as apple pie (yes, I know apple pie originated in England, but it has flourished here ever since colonial times as an American staple and symbol). Like Bad Bunny himself, they are gloating over the idea of repelling ordinary Americans and conquering another territory in the culture war.
If the NFL wants to thumb its nose at real Americans in order to court a foreign audience, then they don’t deserve us. Boycott this upcoming Super Bowl, and continue to boycott the NFL until it proves its loyalty to America and abandons its globalist, politically progressive agenda.
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