NFL legend blasts league for choosing Bad Bunny as halftime performer: 'Anything for money'

Hall of Fame moving backmost Eric Dickerson blasted the NFL for selecting Bad Bunny to beryllium its halftime performer successful the Super Bowl.

Dickerson, 65, called the NFL 1 of the astir corrupt organizations determination is and said they volition bash thing for money.

"I conscionable don't. I don't spot wherefore they chose that. The NFL does worldly that baffles your mind. So, they'll bash thing for money," Dickerson told TMZ successful a caller interview. "I convey God I had a accidental to play successful the National Football League."

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(Left) Former moving backmost Eric Dickerson of the Los Angeles Rams walks onto the tract earlier the NFC divisional playoff crippled against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers astatine Raymond James Stadium successful Tampa, Florida, connected Jan. 23, 2022. (Right) Bad Bunny appears onstage during the Super Bowl LX Pregame & Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Press Conference astatine Moscone Center West connected Feb. 5, 2026, successful San Francisco, California. (Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images;Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Roc Nation)

"But arsenic an entity, the NFL is 1 of the astir corrupt organizations it is."

Dickerson said helium doesn’t recognize wherefore the NFL didn’t take idiosyncratic with ties to San Francisco.

"Look, wherefore don't we get idiosyncratic from close present from home? What however astir idiosyncratic from close present successful San Francisco, each these artists close present successful the country to play astatine the Super Bowl? Somebody (who speaks) English, you know?" Dickerson said.

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Eric Dickerson walks the reddish carpet earlier the NFL Honors amusement astatine Resorts World Theatre successful Las Vegas, Nevada, connected Feb. 8, 2024. (Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports)

When Dickerson was told that it would beryllium sung successful Spanish, the six-time Pro Bowler said it doesn’t marque immoderate sense. Dickerson is not the lone idiosyncratic who is upset with the NFL’s enactment of Bad Bunny.

Many conservatives are acrophobic astir Bad Bunny’s evident "woke" values and if they volition beryllium displayed connected the large signifier to a monolithic audience.

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt revealed that President Donald Trump volition beryllium watching Turning Point USA’s (TPUSA) "All-American" halftime amusement connected Sunday, which is headlined by country/rock creator Kid Rock.

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Bad Bunny accepts the grant for Album of the Year for Debí Tirar Más Fotos astatine the 68th yearly Grammy Awards successful Los Angeles, California, connected Feb. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

"I deliberation the president would overmuch similar a Kid Rock show implicit Bad Bunny. I indispensable accidental that," Leavitt told reporters astatine Thursday's White House property briefing.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell defended having Bad Bunny arsenic the performer.

"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.

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

The Seattle Seahawks instrumentality connected the New England Patriots astatine 6:30 p.m. ET connected Sunday successful Super Bowl LX.

Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report. 

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