NFL Commish Provides Replace On Dangerous Bunny Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present Amid Backlash

[ad_1] NFL commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed that there are not any plans to switch Dangerous Bunny because the halftime performer at Tremendous Bowl LX in February.

Goodell made his first assertion on the matter as backlash towards the Puerto Rican performer, who solely performs songs in Spanish and has expressed anti-ICE sentiments, has grown in latest weeks. A petition to switch Dangerous Bunny (actual identify Benito Ocasio) with nation performer George Strait earned greater than 50,000 signatures.

“It’s fastidiously thought by way of,” Goodell mentioned of the efficiency, per ABC Information . “I’m unsure we’ve ever chosen an artist the place we didn’t have some blowback or criticism. It’s fairly exhausting to do when you have got actually a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of individuals which can be watching.”

“We’re assured it’s going to be a terrific present,” the commissioner added. “[Ocasio] understands the platform that he’s on, and I believe it’s going to be thrilling and a united second.”

“He’s one of many main and hottest entertainers on the planet,” Goodell mentioned of Dangerous Bunny’s international attraction. “That’s what we attempt to obtain. It’s an necessary stage for us. It’s an necessary component to the leisure worth.”

The artist’s choice, which was made together with Jay-Z’s firm Roc Nation, was controversial due to his previous anti-ICE statements, together with his refusal to schedule any tour stops in the USA resulting from alleged fears about his followers being taken into ICE custody at his exhibits.

“…There was the problem of — like, f***ing ICE may very well be exterior (my live performance). And it’s one thing that we have been speaking about and really involved about,” Dangerous Bunny mentioned, referring to ICE brokers as “motherf***ers” and “sons of bitches.”

Ocasio additionally addressed the backlash he and the NFL obtained about none of his songs being English, advising viewers to study Spanish in the event that they didn’t prefer it.

Earlier this month, Turning Level USA introduced that they might be internet hosting another All-American Halftime Present concurrently the Tremendous Bowl halftime present.