Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl?

Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl?

The halftime entertainment for the next Super Bowl is someone called Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican rapper Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio. I got roundly chastised for criticizing last year’s “entertainment” that featured Kendrick Lamar, but Bad Bunny? Those on the right have voiced their displeasure. Seems that Bad Bunny sometimes wears a dress (gender fluid is now the term). From Nashville, our Robby Starbuck said “This is not a pick designed to unite football fans or let people just enjoy the show. It was a pick designed to divide fans and no doubt Bad Bunny will find some way to push a woke message.” Recently, he (or is it she/they/them?) chose not to do a US tour for fear of ICE saying that he was worried about raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in light of mass deportations of primarily Latinos.  

I guess that ICE may target sporting events with large Latino participation but do illegals typically attend Super Bowls? Maybe Bad Bunny is talking about those who work for him rather than the attendees. Well one of the president’s men, Corey Lewandowski said “There is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people in this country illegally. Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else. We will find you. We will apprehend you. We will put you in a detention facility, and we will deport you. So know that that is a very real situation under this administration.” Also commenting on some of Mr Bunny’s comments regarding ICE, Lewandowski said It’s so shameful that they’ve decided to pick somebody who just seems to hate America so much to represent them at the halftime (show).”  I am waiting for President Trump to chime in. It’s not like him to keep quiet on items of this magnitude. Someone on the right suggested Kid Rock and Jason Aldean as halftime entertainment saying that it would “unite America.” Huh? That would inflame the left. Is there any entertainment that would not be divisive? 

I don’t know how the NFL selects who is going to perform at the Super Bowl but I do know that the league feels it is big enough and important enough to follow its own path and not the one dictated by this administration. The league has kept the messages in the end zone that it started as a result of George Floyd. Each team can pick from four phrases for their home games: “End Racism,” “Stop Hate,” “Choose Love,” or “Inspire Change.” The league has even kept its vice president for social responsibility – DEI anyone? The league whose owners are mostly republicans must find a middle ground between the views of its players – most of whom are black – and its owners. Perhaps as businessmen, the owners view the monetary aspect of the Super Bowl show as a benefit regardless of the performer.

Well I have a suggestion. Why not feature at halftime the spouses/companions of NFL players like Ciara and Taylor Swift? And yes I know that when Swift endorsed Kamala Harris, Trump said that she was no longer “hot”. He tweeted “Just look at Woke singer Taylor Swift. Ever since I alerted the world as to what she was by saying on TRUTH that I can’t stand her (HATE!) She was booed out of the Super Bowl and became, NO LONGER HOT. The tide has seriously turned — Being WOKE is for losers, being Republican is what you want to be. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Well tell that to the multitude of her fans. And by the way, to my tastes I would classify Swift as “cute” rather than “hot”. Now hot? Take a look at Ciara. That’s hot!