Bad Bunny was the target of most of the 2,000 Super Bowl 60 complaints
Bad Bunny performs during halftime of Super Bowl 60 between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, Calif.
Every year, thousands of Americans send angry emails to the Federal Communications Commission to complain about something they found objectionable during the Super Bowl halftime show. The big game at Levi’s Stadium, with Bad Bunny as the musical headliner, was certainly no different.
“Explicit language and nasty inappropriate twirking,” wrote one angry viewer from Wheeling, West Virginia. “Hope you all know that people do know more than one language. For Bad Bunny to get up there a single about women and his penis and other sexual innuendo in Spanish is absolutely disgusting. NFL should be ashamed of themselves.”
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With these complaints comes an additional tradition: the FCC’s annual release of these messages, often courtesy of reporters who ask for them through public information requests. Many of the upset Americans whose words will appear in this article come from a link, and variations of it, first shared by sports reporter Matt Brown, who publishes the Extra Points newsletter.
Those who have spent any amount of time on social media leading up to, during and after Bad Bunny’s performance could probably guess what........
