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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell answered questions about Bad Bunny possibly making a political statement during the Super Bowl LX halftime show and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations during his press conference on Monday.
Last year, Bad Bunny was chosen as the Super Bowl halftime show performer despite his scathing criticism of ICE. The Puerto Rican music star won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and had more criticism of ICE on stage in Los Angeles.
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Bad Bunny accepts the award for Album of the Year for “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” during the 68th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
“Look, Bad Bunny is, and I think it was demonstrated last night, one of the great performers in the world, and that’s one of the reasons we chose him,” Goodell said. “But the other reason is that he understood the platform he was on, and this platform is used to unite people and to be able to bring people together with their creativity, with their talents and to be able to use this moment to do that, and I think artists in the past have done that.
“I think Bad Bunny understands that and I think he’s going to have a great performance.”
As for ICE, the officials had to have a visible presence around Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell speaks during his state of the NFL news conference Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, in San Jose, Calif., prior to the Super Bowl 60 football game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin Yoho said last month that federal officials were committed to working with local and state law enforcement to keep the Super Bowl safe.
“Safety is obviously one of the things we focus on the most. It’s a SEAR (Special Event Assessment Rating) 1 level event that involves unique assets at the federal level, state level and local level all working together,” Goodell said. “I don’t see any change in that in the build-up to the Super Bowl. We haven’t seen that.
A federal law enforcement agent outside a home during a raid in south Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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“We’re working with all three of those levels and doing everything we can to make sure it’s a safe environment, and the federal government is a big part of that, including this administration and every other administration before that. I think SEAR 1 has probably been the category we’ve had since at least the turn of the century, if not before that. So I just expect we’ll continue to do the work to make it the safest event.”
