Roger Goodell Defends Nfl Choosing Bad Bunny As Super Bowl Lx Halftime Performer

The NFL announced precocious past period that Bad Bunny will header nan Super Bowl LX halftime show, coming up adjacent Feb. 8 from San Francisco's Levi's Stadium.

Known arsenic nan "King of Latin Trap," Bad Bunny is some a three-time Grammy Award victor and an 11-time Latin Grammy Award winner. He's much than deserving of nan Super Bowl halftime show nod—even if immoderate person decided to deem it controversial.

On nan topic, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said astatine nan Fall League Meetings successful New York connected Wednesday and defended their determination to dub Bad Bunny arsenic their headliner—saying it was "carefully thought through".

"He’s 1 of nan starring and astir celebrated entertainers successful nan world," said Goodell, via NFL Network's Mike Garafolo. "That’s what we effort to execute ... We’re assured it’s going to beryllium a awesome show and that he understands nan level that he’s on. I deliberation it’s going to beryllium breathtaking and a agreed moment."

Roger Goodell defended nan league's determination to take Bad Bunny arsenic nan Super Bowl LX halftime performer. / Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

"I'm not judge we've ever selected an creator wherever we didn't person immoderate blowback aliases criticism," he added. "It's beautiful difficult to do erstwhile you person virtually hundreds of millions of group that are watching."

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