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Former New York Giants star Tiki Barber said she hoped Super Bowl LX would be controversy-free amid criticism over Bad Bunny’s anti-ICE remarks before his halftime show performance.
Bad Bunny’s selection as the Super Bowl halftime show performer sparked backlash among some NFL fans last year, and dismay grew after his comments at the Grammy Awards over the weekend.
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New York Giants running back (21) Tiki Barber passes Washington Redskins cornerback (25) Kenny Wright on his way to the end zone at FedEx Field on December 30, 2006. (Geoff Burke/USA TODAY Sports)
But as the days of the showdown between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks draw closer, Barber suggested to The Associated Press that he hoped the game would be the escape it was intended to be.
“The Super Bowl is supposed to be an escape, right? We’re supposed to go there so we don’t have to talk about the serious things in this country,” he told the outlet. “I hope it doesn’t move, because if it does, then I think we’re really losing touch with what’s important in our society.”
There’s a good chance it won’t be.
Green Day, the famous punk rock band that will perform before Super Bowl LX as part of a ceremony honoring the game’s MVPs, has been notoriously opposed to President Donald Trump’s administration. Last year, the gang targeted Vice President JD Vance.
Bad Bunny performs during the iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles on March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
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Bad Bunny has also expressed his discontent with US Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its operations across the US. Outrage against federal agents grew in the wake of the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.
“Before I thank God, I’m going to tell ICE to go away,” Bad Bunny said. “We are not savages, we are not animals, we are not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans.”
Still, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell believed that Bad Bunny understood that the platform he was being given was meant to bring people together.
“Listen, Bad Bunny is, and I think that was demonstrated last night, one of the great artists in the world and that’s one of the reasons we picked him,” Goodell said. “But the other reason is that he understood the platform that he was on and this platform is used to bring people together 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 and I think artists in the past have done that.
A detailed view of the Lombardi Trophy before a press conference with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center on February 2, 2026, in San Jose, California. (Logan Bowles/Getty Images)
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“I think Bad Bunny understands that and I think he’ll have a great performance.”
