Ex-ESPN star shares the 'disturbing' thing about Bad Bunny performing at Super Bowl LX

Former ESPN broadcaster Sage Steele said Friday the contented with Bad Bunny performing astatine the Super Bowl LX halftime has thing to bash with him being from Puerto Rico.

Steele said connected the "Faulkner Focus" with Harris Faulkner that her occupation was that Bad Bunny had led "with hate" since helium was announced arsenic the euphony headliner for the game.

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Bad Bunny speaks connected signifier astatine the Super Bowl LX Pregame & Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Press Conference astatine Moscone Center West connected Feb. 5, 2026 successful San Francisco, California. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)

"I privation to constituent this 1 happening retired arsenic well," Steele said. "This isn’t astir idiosyncratic who is not American, and Bad Bunny is, but it isn’t astir that. U2, they’re from Ireland, they gave an astonishing show close aft 9/11 20-something years ago. This is about, arsenic an artist, you pb with hate, and that is what Bad Bunny has done from time one.

"When helium says, ‘I’m not going to talk your language, you person 4 months to larn it,’ are you kidding me? It would ne'er beryllium acceptable successful their country. So that’s the disturbing (thing). Not that he’s from Puerto Rico. That helium says helium hates us, he’s not going to instrumentality our money, but present he’s doing it."

Bad Bunny made the ace astir American fans needing to larn however to talk English earlier his performance. He tried to propulsion backmost from the remark connected Thursday during his interrogation with Apple Music up of the show.

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Bad Bunny receives the grant for Album of the Year astatine The 68th Annual Grammy Awards, broadcasting unrecorded Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026 connected the CBS Television Network, and streaming unrecorded and connected request connected Paramount+. (Stewart Cook/CBS via Getty Images)

Steele praised Turning Point USA for offering fans an alternate halftime amusement for those who whitethorn not similar Bad Bunny’s euphony oregon politics. She added that she knows wherefore the NFL is going with Bad Bunny from a concern perspective.

"I emotion there’s an alternative," Steele said. "That’s what America is each astir and I springiness TPUSA a batch of recognition for doing so. I deliberation it was needed much than ever. However, I judge much radical volition astir apt spell up and ticker the Super Bowl halftime amusement with Bad Bunny if for nary different reason, due to the fact that a batch of times radical hatred ticker conscionable to spot however atrocious helium is going to be. Unfortunately, helium made it precise clear. He’s like, I’m not speaking successful English. I’m singing successful Spanish. You person 4 months to larn the language.’ And I deliberation that’s the part, on with the hatred and speech astir ICE, etc., that disturbs truthful galore people.

Bad Bunny accepts the grant for Album of the Year for Debí Tirar Más Fotos astatine the 68th yearly Grammy Awards successful Los Angeles, California, connected Feb. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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"However, what we person to retrieve is that this is simply a concern decision. Two years ago, determination were lone 2 different NFL games played successful different countries. Last season, three, and successful 2025, 5 games. All the commissioner cares astir close present is increasing the crippled and they privation to beryllium successful much countries. They don’t attraction what the players that were interviewed are saying, oregon what the fans are saying. This is astir the concern of the NFL and making it much global."

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