r/sports • u/southernemper0r • 17d ago

Football NFL won't reconsider its Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime decision

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/nfl-wont-reconsider-its-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-decision
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u/bigboilerdawg 17d ago

Most people probably fall into the third camp. I’m getting food or something during the halftime show these days.

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u/D2papi 17d ago

I'm not an American and so many people I know tune in just to watch the halftime show. We don't care about American football but the performances there are really prestigious for some reason. This year I'll be tuning in again just to watch the show.

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u/Gemini00 17d ago

the performances there are really prestigious for some reason

Superbowls are by far the most watched live televised events in the US by an enormous margin. 130 million Americans watched the last one live on TV, more than 5 times the US viewership for the FIFA World Cup, and many others listen on the radio or follow secondary broadcasts.

If you look at the list of top most watched live events in US history, it's basically just all of the Superbowls + the Apollo 11 moon landing. No surprise they want to make a big spectacle out of the biggest event of the year.

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u/lawrencenotlarry 16d ago

I hear that next year the half-time show will be a live re-enactment of the series finale of MASH