Quote:We’ve been treated to some horrendous halftime shows since the advent of the Super Bowl almost 60 years ago — think Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake — and some fabulous ones too (think: Prince). It’s become a much-hyped tradition that gets some people excited while sending others to the kitchen to make a sandwich and get ready for the third quarter.

The National Football League has notoriously strayed away from its moneymaker, football, and waded into social politics before, to the chagrin of many a loyal fan. Remember their ludicrous endzone statements that began after the George Floyd riots in 2020 and their pithy little meaningless pronouncements like, “It Takes All of Us” and “Inspire Change?” If you’ve been watching the 2026 playoffs, meanwhile, it’s hard to miss the virtue-signaling but pointless messages on the back of many players’ helmets, “Choose love.”

I'm watching football, people — I'm not interested in romance at the moment. And I hate whoever is playing the Bears, so no, I'm emphatically not choosing love.

The league has already caused controversy by appointing a little-known rapper known as “Bad Bunny” to host the halftime show. I frankly know almost nothing about him, but I do know that many people were less than thrilled.

On Monday, the NFL announced it was giving another slap in the face to many of its fans by choosing the anti-American, TDS-riddled punk band Green Day to kick off the game-time festivities.

I admit, some of their songs aren’t half bad — “When I Come Around” and “Holiday” are both rockers that have some grinding power chords, which, if you like that sort of thing (and I do), might make you reach for the air guitar. But are they really a good choice for one of the few events that still brings America together, the Super Bowl?

Answer: No.

Green Day's list of pointed social commentary is long and is 100 percent what is not needed for an event that is supposed to be about fun, food, football, and family.

[Lead singer] Billie Joe Armstrong, though, has spent a lot of time attacking Trump and his voters — many of whom are NFL fans.

To name just a few examples of activism by Green Day and Armstrong, in April, Armstrong changed the lyrics of the band’s hit “Jesus of Suburbia” sung at Coachella to support the Palestinians and the terror group Hamas.

Before that, the rocker compared Trump to Adolf Hitler in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. Then he called for Trump’s impeachment in 2018 in response to a Trump tweet attacking Kim Jong Un.

In November 2016, during a performance at the American Music Awards, Green Day chanted “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA!” from the stage.

Armstrong also stirred controversy last year by exclaiming “f*** America” before adding he was “renouncing his citizenship” in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. That incident led to his music being banned by several radio stations.

The NFL is still a juggernaut, and likely won’t lose many fans over these antics (although a lot of people may tune out the music shows and go see Turning Points USA’s halftime offering instead). But just because they probably won’t pay a huge price, that doesn’t mean their decision is right. In effect, they’re telling a huge portion of their fans that they don’t give a damn about their beliefs and their values, and those fans can suck it if they don’t like it.

Memo to Roger Goodell: How about you focus on the football instead of the social justice warfare?

Meanwhile, what if Green Day goes off script and starts unloading heavily loaded political diatribes and overshadows the actual game? I know I won’t feel bad for you, Roger — you get what you pay for. Put that on the back of your helmet.

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Another reason not to watch the big game….. Used to only watch for the commercials. With YouTube I haven’t had to do that in years.

Shame. I enjoyed Dookie back in the day. I hate it when bands decide to go all political

I probably will not watch the SB. I didn't watch the CFB national championship game either. The latter is because I oppose all of the money being poured into an allegedly amateur sport. LOL at "student athletes". What a scam.

(01-20-2026 01:53 PM)miko33 Wrote:  I probably will not watch the SB. I didn't watch the CFB national championship game either. The latter is because I oppose all of the money being poured into an allegedly amateur sport. LOL at "student athletes". What a scam.

I did watch, just for the pure novelty of seeing the Indiana Hoosiers (!!!) play in a football game of that significance. But overall, I have tuned out that sort of thing, too, and for basically the same reasons. I actually didn’t know which teams are still in contention for the Super Bowl until someone told me this morning. I thought the CCG’s were last weekend, but it turns out that will be next weekend and there are still 4 teams left.

at Green Day being a "punk band"

Who's playing?

Roger Goodell has got to go.

And, I thought Billie Joe Armstrong renounced his citizenship when Roe v. Wade was overturned.

Billie Joe, Mike and Tre are three 50 year-old butch lesbian pot heads acting like angsty teens raging for the machine as Elon Musk pointed out, and I am not a fan of Elon Musk.

(01-20-2026 01:53 PM)miko33 Wrote:  I probably will not watch the SB. I didn't watch the CFB national championship game either. The latter is because I oppose all of the money being poured into an allegedly amateur sport. LOL at "student athletes". What a scam.

Everything is a scam and the government is going to kill you.

(01-20-2026 03:14 PM)b2b Wrote:   at Green Day being a "punk band"

LOL, yes that is a weird comment. I was never, ever into that type of thing, and even I knew that description was way off.

It’s like calling the Rolling Stones a boy band.

(01-20-2026 03:24 PM)andybible1995 Wrote:  Roger Goodell has got to go.

His father was a moderate GOP Congressman from Upstate NY back in the 60s. When RFK was assassinated, he was appointed to the US Senate and immediately became the most liberal Republican in DC. He was defeated by a conservative challenger at the next election, and — politically — was never heard from again.

I bet Roger Goodell remembers that very clearly. And I bet he still has a special place in his heart for “right wingers”. So when the NFL does weird sh¡t like hiring Green Day to give a performance at the Super Bowl, it all fits in.

(01-20-2026 03:14 PM)b2b Wrote:   at Green Day being a "punk band"

lol---kinda what I was thinking. At least Ive actually heard of them. The NFL seems clueless when it comes to shared common American culture these days.

(01-20-2026 04:44 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(01-20-2026 03:14 PM)b2b Wrote:   at Green Day being a "punk band"

lol---kinda what I was thinking. At least Ive actually heard of them. The NFL seems clueless when it comes to shared common American culture these days.

The NFL is engaging in toxic empathy. They care more about not hurting the feelings of minorities who will never watch football than they are about delivering a good product tht would please their customers.

(01-20-2026 03:19 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  Who's playing?

The actual teams?

Don't know yet.

I'm going with tbe Seahawks and Patriots.

"It's ok if you only know three chords, but god, put them in the right order." ~ Hank Hill

Come on guys. Yall stopped watching when Kap took a knee.
Go watch the tractor pulls on the Ocho. You can always listen to Nugent sing about statutory rape at halftime.

(01-21-2026 11:01 AM)ragin4u Wrote:  Come on guys. Yall stopped watching when Kap took a knee.
Go watch the tractor pulls on the Ocho. You can always listen to Nugent sing about statutory rape at halftime.

You sure do like to talk about rape alot.

(01-21-2026 11:01 AM)ragin4u Wrote:  Come on guys. Y’all stopped watching when Kap took a knee.

I had stopped watching even before that, LOL. For me, the Green Day stuff isn’t a reason to stop watching, it’s a reminder that I made the right choice to stop watching many years before. I’ve never once regretted it.

I don't get this... almost everyone here has talked about how they don't watch the halftime show, and who watches the pre-game show? I watch the game, at the half I'm returning the beer I drank to the toilet and snacking on more food, while BSing with friends. I could not care less about the "entertainers" that are performing. I want an entertaining football game and don't care about the rest of the crap surrounding it. And I want my squares to hit in my $100 pool that pays out $2500 each quarter to whomever has the right numbers.

MAGAs prove again they are extremely fragile and easily offended.