Ex-NFL star hopes Super Bowl LX can steer clear of politics, provide fans 'an escape'

Former New York Giants prima Tiki Barber said helium hoped that Super Bowl LX would beryllium escaped from contention amid disapproval implicit Bad Bunny’s anti-ICE statements up of his halftime amusement performance.

Bad Bunny’s enactment arsenic the Super Bowl halftime amusement performer drew backlash among immoderate NFL fans past twelvemonth and the consternation grew aft his remarks astatine the Grammy Awards implicit the weekend.

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New York Giants moving backmost (21) Tiki Barber runs past Washington Redskins cornerback (25) Kenny Wright connected his mode to the extremity portion astatine FedEx Field connected Dec. 30, 2006. (Geoff Burke/USA TODAY Sports)

But arsenic the days get person to the matchup betwixt the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, Barber suggested to The Associated Press helium hoped the crippled is the flight that it’s intended to be.

"The Super Bowl is expected to beryllium an escape, right? We’re expected to spell determination to not person to speech astir the superior things of this country," helium told the outlet. "I anticipation it doesn’t devolve, due to the fact that if it does, past I deliberation we’re truly losing interaction with what’s important successful our society."

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Green Day, the famed punk stone set that is acceptable to execute earlier Super Bowl LX arsenic portion of a ceremonial to grant the crippled MVPs, has been notoriously against President Donald Trump’s administration. Last year, the set took purpose astatine Vice President JD Vance.

Bad Bunny performs during the iHeartRadio Music Awards successful Los Angeles connected March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

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Bad Bunny has besides expressed his displeasure with U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its operations crossed the U.S. The outrage against national agents grew successful aftermath of the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti successful Minnesota.

"Before I accidental acknowledgment to God, I’m going to accidental ICE out," Bad Bunny said. "We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans."

Still, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell believed Bad Bunny understood that the level helium is being provided was meant to unite people.

"Listen, Bad Bunny is, and I deliberation that was demonstrated past night, 1 of the large artists successful the satellite and that’s 1 of the reasons we chose him," Goodell said. "But the different crushed is helium understood the level helium was connected and this level is utilized to unite radical and to beryllium capable to bring radical unneurotic with their creativity, with their talents and to beryllium capable to usage this infinitesimal to bash that and I deliberation artists successful the past person done that.

A item presumption of the Lombardi trophy anterior to a property league with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell astatine San Jose McEnery Convention Center connected Feb. 2, 2026, successful San Jose, California. (Logan Bowles/Getty Images)

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"I deliberation Bad Bunny understands that and I deliberation he’ll person a large performance."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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