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Late. Rep. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., went to the Super Bowl last year, but this year might be a no-go for the SEC championship-winning football coach.
The former Auburn football coach didn’t explicitly say he wouldn’t watch the game, but he did say Bad Bunny’s halftime show was off-limits.
“Unfortunately, we have, I call it the Woke Bowl, because we’re getting more and more awake,” Tuberville told Newsmax in a recent interview.
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Tommy Tuberville is not happy that Bad Bunny is this year’s Super Bowl halftime show performer. (Tom Williams and John Nacion/Getty Images)
“And we have Bad Bunny, or Bad Rabbit, at halftime. I want to see the (Tipping Point USA) halftime show. It’s just unfortunate we’ve gotten to this point.”
Tuberville’s apparent protest comes just days after President Donald Trump announced he won’t be attending the big game.
“It’s just too far away,” Trump said of the game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. “I would, I have [gotten] big hands [at] Super Bowl. They like me.”
Bad Bunny’s nod to do the halftime show has been criticized, even by Trump.
Bad Bunny watches Game 3 of the second round of the 2025 NBA Playoffs between the Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on May 10, 2025. (Wendell Cruz/Imagn Images)
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“I don’t know who he is,” Trump told Newsmax about the election last fall. “I don’t know why they do it. It’s crazy. And then they blame it on some promoter they hired to get entertainment. I think it’s absolutely ridiculous.”
Bad Bunny said last fall that he decided to do his residency show in his native Puerto Rico and did not book any US dates on his tour due to fears that his fans would be detained by ICE agents.
Green Day will play before kickoff – frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has also been critical of the president. He has previously compared Trump to Hitler, and the band often changes the line “I’m not part of a redneck agenda” from their 2004 hit “American Idiot” to “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” in recent live performances, according to The Independent.
“I’m against them,” Trump told the New York Post of the performers. “I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hate. Terrible.”
Mike Dirnt, from left, Billie Joe Armstrong and Tré Cool of Green Day arrive at the FireAid concert at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif., on Jan. 30, 2025. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
The game will feature the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks on February 8th.
