From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Feb 9, 2026 at 1:04:32 PM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman""  wrote:   
      
   > I just heard a favorable review of Bad Bunny's performance.   
      
   I just heard that's seven years and counting since the NFL allowed a white   
   person to headline the Super Bowl show. Now they've upped the ante by shutting   
   out the English language as well.   
      
   And when you're talking about a sport where the fanbase is more than 70%   
   white, there's only one way to understand that decision. It's a deliberate   
   effort by the NFL-- and Jay-Z, whose company has been contracted to run the   
   halftime shows since 2019-- to exclude white people from participating in the   
   single most watched musical performance of the year.   
      
   Where are the Tom Pettys, the Aerosmiths, and The Who of years past? Country   
   music is a billion-dollar/year industry and speaks to American values in a way   
   that resonates with millions of people but we see none of it at the Super Bowl   
   anymore. And even if we did, Jay-Z would probably just put his wife on stage   
   to culturally appropriate country music and black it up like she did at the   
   Grammys.   
      
   > His songs   
   > truly embrace the Puerto Rican experience, for good and ill. He has a   
   > song about the line poles that get taken out with hurricanes and the   
   > frequent blackouts although the song has a message about resilliance.   
   > The reviewer joked that the tourism board would hate the song.   
   >   
   > He also brought out Ricky Martin, who seems to have been around forever.   
   > I always think of him as ageless but Don McLean's age. In truth, he was   
   > born the year of McLean's most famous ballad.   
      
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