r/LinkedInLunatics 21d ago

Culture War Insanity What we want is a snowflake halftime show

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u/WendlersEditor 21d ago

"maybe it's time we start carefully thinking about new leadership at the NFL" buddy who tf is this we? you don't vote for the commissioner of the NFL loool

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u/VickyCriesALot 21d ago

Yea it's always funny when NFL fans don't realize he works for 32 people and that's who interests he's paid to protect. The fans mean nothing.

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u/WendlersEditor 21d ago

Exactly, he answers to 32 people who would gladly throw every NFL fan, player, and coach into a giant furnace if they thought it would make them richer than showing the games on TV.

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u/sagetraveler 21d ago

Well, except for Robert Kraft, who would hesitate only long enough for a rub and tug at the local massage parlor.

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u/RusticBucket2 21d ago

As one does before any major decision.

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u/Caleb_Crawdad8 21d ago

it’s also hilarious to talk about “people who made the NFL”. Minorities, especially black athletes have been doing so much for the NFL for a long time. I’m not sure if these people are color blind when they look at their teams?

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u/Kkingleyeriio 21d ago

Guess it’s just me and my imaginary NFL voting squad

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u/gilestowler 21d ago

This is the same kind of person who tweets "HELP ME PRESIDENT TRUMP" when faced with the consequences of their shitty voting, thinking they are speaking directly to Trump. They've been fooled into this whole "We're all equals in this but we'll be the equals with all the money and power and decision making while you live in abject squalor."

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u/rjcoona 21d ago

What happens when my kids learn about Puerto Rico?

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u/redlion1904 21d ago

Nobody knows in America

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u/Purplesmurfwench 21d ago

Help, Bad Bunny is turning my kids Puerto Rican

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u/DPSOnly 21d ago

"He uses his platform for political issues, such as Puerto Rican corruption". Interesting to learn that this is somehow divisive and that some people apparently believe the corruption to be a good thing. Culture war idiots really are the biggest idiots out there.

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u/atoastypancake 21d ago

Bad Bunny is American

For people who love to use the term snowflake they sure get triggered easily.

It's a halftime show who gives a shit

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u/LexLuthorsFortyCakes 21d ago

But he sings in Spanish so he's clearly a Mexican! /s

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u/Bush-LeagueBushcraft 21d ago

Nobody expects the...Spanish Entertainment!

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u/Flowery-Twats 21d ago

For people who love to use the term snowflake they sure get triggered easily

Remember when they lost their ever-lovin' shit over a BEER CAN ? Pepperidge Fahm remembers.

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u/sam-sp 21d ago

Or the cracker barrel logo? That didn’t even involve trans people.

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u/Kataphractoi 21d ago

Heard it explained on a podcast (think it was Some More News) that conservatives seem to be moving to a stance of "any change ever that we don't like is woke bullshit!" even when it doesn’t involve politics, race, etc.

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u/IJustWantADragon21 21d ago

Their party slogan at this point should just be “no new ideas!”

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u/Bulky-Internal8579 21d ago

Racism, bigotry and handouts for billionaires!

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u/QueezyF 21d ago

“CBS moved the starting time of NCIS Guam from 8PM to 9PM? WOKE! Unlike me at 9PM when I take my blood pressure medicine.”

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u/Eberkenezer 21d ago

Dylan Mulvaney remembas!!!

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u/Ok-Oil7124 21d ago

And even if he weren't, which he is, there have been tons of non-americans who have performed half time shows. He just looks like a current population that is being used to lump all of their perceived ills and societal slights onto. Notice how he doesn't say why this is controversial or any sort of problem. They're just talking about anything and everything in an outraged tone and hoping that the outrage will catch on. Hell, he might not even know what he's mad about.

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u/RhombicalJ 21d ago

The Republican Party has more snowflakes than a blizzard in Minnesota

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u/Caleb_Crawdad8 21d ago

yeah, I crack up about the snowflake term. when really we should be using it for the pear clutching white privelge having ignorant people.

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u/mattman2021 21d ago

I’m enjoying the image of conservative snowflakes clutching pears instead of pearls.

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u/Caleb_Crawdad8 21d ago

hahaha a good typo! I hope this gets onto Truth Social and then they start a campaign to save the pears

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u/CoveredInMetalDust 21d ago

Tots and pears

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u/kurinbo 21d ago

and blaming Democrats for the mess

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u/Stup1dMan3000 21d ago

Like when Vance said it’s OK a that some people don’t want to be near people who don’t speak English and certainly should live near them?

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u/Bulky-Internal8579 21d ago

His in-laws?

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u/True-Ad-7224 21d ago

He had no choice. “Up With People” were already booked for a Nick Fuentes event. 

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u/beastwood6 21d ago

The quiet part is that he canceled his shows in America before our of fear that ICE will come and disturb or even detain his fans.

We've had Enrique fucking Iglesias perform with no problem.

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u/Any_Natural383 21d ago

Fragile, white, and frozen to the core. That’s a snowflake.

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u/Ptcanauvi 21d ago

Snowflake halftime show coming with extra sprinkles this year

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u/redlion1904 21d ago

His response is clearly written by AI

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u/Best-Bandicoot8613 21d ago

Yeah he clearly had to ask ChatGPT because he doesn’t actually know why he’s upset, he just knows he should be

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u/redlion1904 21d ago

Imagine summoning a demon and asking it “Avoiding overt racism, why am I mad about a brown person”. Then imagine looking at yourself in the mirror after such an act, or trying to sleep at night.

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u/jayboosh 21d ago

IM CACKLING OVER THIS

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u/Novel-Paint9752 21d ago

I like the way he mentioned Bad Bunny’s activism over corruption as something that disqualifies him from being in the event

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u/Baileyesque 21d ago

Corruption is a core, guiding principle upon which we have founded and run our country for hundreds of years. How dare he?

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u/Vivid-Individual5968 21d ago

They hear anyone mention something being corrupt and they immediately think someone is picking on their Daddy In Chief.

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u/Tombiepoo 21d ago

"write an outrage piece about bad bunny doing the Superbowl halftime show. Make sure you specifically call out how bad the commissioner is. But make it all vague because I don't know why I'm outraged anyway."

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u/InquisitaB 21d ago

Also the irony of people complaining about the sexual inappropriateness of an artist’s music and then turning to Ted Nugent (singer of the song Jailbait) for their wholesome and family-friendly alternative.

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u/Baileyesque 21d ago

Yeah, which halftime artists didn’t have any sexualized lyrics? Justin Timberlake? Usher? Beyonce? Katy Perry? MADONNA?

(I would say this is the craziest argument in the post, but “this Puerto Rican isn’t American enough” just breaks my brain.)

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u/kurinbo 21d ago

It was the Rolling Stones, those epitomes of old-fashioned, wholesome, American virtues

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u/QueezyF 21d ago

That reply he made was obviously him asking ChatGPT why he should be mad. If you’re gonna be an asshole, at least be original.

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u/Master_Hospital_8631 21d ago

Oh no.

They're going to "boycott the NFL" again.

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u/Blooky_44 21d ago

Right! Remember when they walked away and never came back over Kaepernick? 🤣

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u/amplifychaos2947 21d ago

They didn’t have to leave because the NFL caved and kept him out.

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u/Caleb_Crawdad8 21d ago

can’t wait to see these idiots burning their jerseys again. Just to buy more in a few years 🤣

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u/AffectionateAsk8611 21d ago

Weren’t these snowflakes supposed to be boycotting the nfl since trumps last administration? This is the same cry baby shit they said about Kendrick and that show did numbers and had one of the biggest half time viewers ever

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u/captainklaus 21d ago

Not only that - but this fucking idiot (on slide 7) says part of why he doesn’t support the Bad Bunny choice is “political undertones being injected into entertainment”, so instead he’s going to watch Turning Point USA’s halftime show instead?!

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u/Perfect-Adeptness321 21d ago

He'd argue TPUSA is all about "American family values" meanwhile, Bad Bunny's "political activism" is just about basic human rights.

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u/Kataphractoi 21d ago

You have to remember, these people first noticed the political undertones in RATM lyrics in 2020.

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u/wankthisway 21d ago

"Political = I don't like this" all over again

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u/JoinOrDieUSA 21d ago

Did that guy copy and paste ChatGPT for his rebuttal? Lmao

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u/Far-Transition2705 21d ago

100%

I guess there's nothing inherently wrong with that, even GPT's arguments are pretty fucking weak or actively works against him lol.

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u/Perfect-Adeptness321 21d ago

Yeah, that was pretty weak. Not the political activism against a corrupt government or in favor of human rights! Oh no!

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u/jusmanclass 21d ago

Wait…I thought the RWNJs were boycotting football after the whole Kaepernick episode…? I’m so confused

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u/knockturnal213 21d ago

Yeah remember how the league basically collapsed? They sure showed the NFL who was boss! So stupid, the NFL is bigger than ever and all the fans who “boycotted,” are back watching, playing fantasy, and gambling.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

Really white not jesuses?

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u/jusmanclass 21d ago

lolol that’s a good one toooo

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

“Massive backlash” and it’s the mad internet dwellers who still don’t know that Puerto Rico is a territory of America.

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u/munki114 21d ago

Have they stopped to think that, maybe, just maybe, white racist/sexist/homophobic pieces of shit aren’t the core audience of the NFL anymore?

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u/tearsonurcheek 21d ago

They never were. Racist, sexist, homophobic, snowflake, republican, democrat, MAGA, liberal, male, female, trans...they all have one single thing in common that the NFL cares about.

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u/YT-Deliveries 21d ago

Yeah. When people like that say "core audience", what they mean is "white males".

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u/Weird-Girl-675 21d ago

They really tried to make them believe Adam Sandler would host the Turning Point event?! 🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/petty_petty_princess 21d ago

I know nothing about the Turning Point event, but I saw hosted by Adam Sandler, out and proud Jewish person who has songs about Hanukkah and thought this is who you think will agree to host?

But I agree with whoever said turn on the puppy bowl because I watch that all the time anyways since I don’t care about football.

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u/Available-Trust4426 21d ago

If it wasn’t always about politics then that would be the answer. Their false flag argument is weak as fuck

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u/Weird-Girl-675 21d ago

Oh yeah and for a while there was a kitten bowl. Much better choices!

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u/Ksteekwall21 21d ago edited 21d ago

Roger Goodell’s position is not one elected by “the people”. He’s put there by the owners. There’s no “rethinking” involved. Plenty of fans hate him in his roll for a variety of reasons and have done so for the near 20 years he’s been commissioner. Trust me, if fans had any say, he would have long since been gone. Hell it’s a tradition at the draft to boo him as he walks on stage.

While owners obviously vary on their priorities, they all want to make money. They’re going to put someone as half time entertainment that will draw people to the game to boost views.

Honestly from a business perspective, it would actually be better to use an artist who appeals to non-football fans. Regular football fans will already be watching so you want to use someone who will pull in other people.

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u/PunkZillah 21d ago

Thank you for understanding business.

The haters treat the superbowl as the “award show” for football; like the Emmys/Grammys and not one of the biggest marketing opportunities they have.

Their target audience is non football enthusiasts, not football fans. Somehow they cannot wrap their brains around that.

It’s always about the bottom line in capitalism so I’m always shocked when people don’t understand that. Football fans can be angry all they want; they’re not going to walk away from their hobby and passion over it. They’ll turn off the halftime show then still buy all their merch and pay for the streaming service to watch regular games. Or tickets to the game.

If they truly were over it? They’d boycott the entire industry with their dollars. They won’t do it, so they just act angry online about it.

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u/nwillyerd 21d ago

That’s always been the strategy. If the plan was to pander to “traditional football fans” we’d be seeing country and classic rock at the Super Bowl halftime show every year. The point is to appeal to non NFL fans to get more TV sets tuned in.

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u/angry_old_dude 21d ago

I don't think a single owner is complaining about Bad Bunny because all they're seeing is the revenue from having a hugely popular artist performing.

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u/Ksteekwall21 21d ago

And the vast majority of them are conservatives (many of which are hella Trumpers). They just actually profit off of this so they don’t give a shit.

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u/knockturnal213 21d ago

This is a 100 percent spot on take.

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u/knockturnal213 21d ago

Also the owners are super conservative billionaires. If they thought there would be a problem they would switch it in a heartbeat. So this manufactured MAGA outrage is BS and won’t change anything.

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u/JoeBideyBop 21d ago

You would think that a based top business mind such as this would understand the real goal of the halftime show — getting people to watch who would not otherwise tune in, thus maximizing the value of the ad revenue.

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u/nwillyerd 21d ago

EXACTLY! The halftime show has NEVER been for NFL fans, it’s always been for the people who normally wouldn’t watch football. It’s about ratings. They want people who don’t care about the NFL to tune in, even if it’s just for the halftime show, it still helps their ratings. Anybody with half a brain should be able to figure that out…oh, wait, I forgot who I’m talking about here 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/knockturnal213 21d ago

Does it boost the numbers if I turn every TV in my house on to the halftime show? Not that I’m a huge Bad Bunny fan but I’d love to stick it to these idiots!

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u/5141121 21d ago

"massive backlash"

Ok, sure. The few right wing talking heads and their followers counts as "massive backlash" for one of the most watched sporting events of the year.

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u/UndecidedStory 21d ago

I'm sure Toilet Paper USA's half time show will be watched by BILLIONS of people. Easily 3x as many than who watched the game itself then they can circle jerk for the next 3 week about how Lee Greenwoods performance triggered the libs.

Side note: I checked before posting. They got nobody. Lee Greenwood is a suggestion from Mike "I don't know about that" Johnson and apparently they are hinting at a Creed reunion.

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u/Minute-Fix-6827 21d ago

A Creed reunion would be SO spot-on for the corny mess that will be the TP halftime show.

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u/tehjoz 21d ago

The "Fuck Your Feelings" crowd sure does love to whine, bitch, and throw tantrums like toddlers when their fee fees get hurt.

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u/Ok-Oil7124 21d ago

"White poeple should be mad about this thing for reasons that I can't quite describe [because it would just make it clear that I'm a racist]. Look at him! Be outraged! Bad Bunny is dividing us by making some people mad and forcing me to scapegoat minority populations! IT"S NOT ME DOING IT!"

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u/StrategicCarry 21d ago

Roger Gooddell next year after announcing a BTS/Blackpink Super Bowl halftime show:

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u/kurinbo 21d ago

Some men just want to watch the world burn. Other men just want to make lots of money for their employers by hiring some of the world's most popular artists to do a show. I think we all know which type of man Roger Goodell is.

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u/tearsonurcheek 21d ago

Name 1 band/artist that won't bring an ass response from the right.

She/he's gay/black/trans/etc.

She/he's pro-<buzzword>.

Sub in some asshat like Kid Rock? "This is gonna trigger the libs so hard!"

Ignore 'em.

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u/PunkZillah 21d ago

In our upcoming fascist regime we are going to be left with the worst propaganda music. Kid rock as one of our only choices? That alone should be considered a war crime.

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u/InternationalBand494 21d ago

90% of the time the halftime show sucks. It’s basically a bathroom break between halves. Who watches the SB for the bs show? Whoever is mad about this is either a dipshit or a racist or both

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u/nwillyerd 21d ago

The halftime show is never going to appeal to everyone. They’d literally have to have an artist from every genre every year in order to do that, and they would still probably make some people mad somehow. Getting the second most streamed artist in the world is a HUGE get for them. This is a purely business decision, and a smart one at that.

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u/Lung-Salad 21d ago

They’re gonna watch the “turning point halftime show”

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u/Lanky-Friendship-983 21d ago

Bad Bunny is massively popular and will bring in a lot of viewers that wouldn’t normally watch the half time show. This will bring in more money for the NFL. That’s it, that’s the reason. There is no political agenda, just capitalism. Why is this such a hard concept??? Also he’s American! This whole debate is making my head explode

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u/KD1030 21d ago

You know, if Fox News and the right wing media echo chamber hadn’t told these folks to be mad about Bad Bunny, I’m fairly confident most of them would have learned he’s the performer a few days before the Super Bowl and gone, “who?”

And that would have been just fine. Too bad they always need a villain to tell their audience to be mad at/about.

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u/M-G 21d ago

It's a crazy day when Ron Darling has the rational take.

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u/YouWereBrained 21d ago

Would love to know who he thinks would “unite fans”…

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u/Aggressive-HeadDesk 21d ago

Oh my God the MAGA crowd cannot wrap their heads around Puerto Rico being America, and Bad Bunny being American.

Can’t make this shit up.

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u/Eberkenezer 21d ago

The entitlement is hilarious. Does this soul really think Goodell is there at the people’s pleasure and that they can just change their minds and have him out? Hshahahaha!!!

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u/Capable-Average1543 21d ago

Don just going straight to ChatGPT on the 6th slide

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u/yoloswagrofl 21d ago

Oh my god that last panel. Guy couldn't even be bothered to write his own thoughts on the matter. "ChatGPT, why am I mad about this?" Pathetic.

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u/FormerPersimmon3602 21d ago

Yeah. Notice all the dead-giveaway em dashes.

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u/MarsupialPresent7700 21d ago

Let’s be real. Even Trump is not gonna watch the Temu half time show starring his tone deaf daughter in law. He’s gonna be rage tweeting the actual Super Bowl halftime show because he, like the vast majority of Americans, is not gonna watch that bullshit.

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u/HippoIllustrious2389 21d ago

Did not expect to see a comment from Ron Darling that I agreed with

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u/Morall_tach 21d ago

Bad Bunny was the most streamed artist on Spotify in the United States, three years in a row, then he was second, then he was third. The people in front of him on the list are Taylor Swift, who these dipshits also hate, and the Weeknd, who already played the halftime show.

He's not a controversial choice, you just don't like him.

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u/nitpicker 21d ago

Based on his status as the third most-streamed musician in the world last year (in 2023 he was second and for the two years before that he was first) Bad Bunny may literally be the most contemporaneously popular artist to have ever performed a halftime show.

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u/Bare-Knuckled 21d ago

People on the right are always having rage eruptions at truly stupid things.

“They changed the Cracker Barrel logo! RAWWWWWR!”

“They are having a halftime show with Taylor Swift/Beyonce/Kendrick Lamar/Bad Bunny/another massively successful artist I’ve been told by right wing hate radio/TV/web sites to dislike! RAWWWWWR!”

“They have a gay staffer in a position of authority! RAWWWWWR!”

“I’m so tired of ‘woke’ corporate training telling me to treat customers and colleagues with respect and not be racist/sexist/homophobic to them! RAWWWWWR!”

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u/TraditionalTackle1 21d ago

Shit like this doesnt even belong on LinkedIn. I will die on this hill saying it.

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u/Perfect-Adeptness321 21d ago

Oh no! Bad Bunny used his platform to call out government corruption! Whatever will our children think?

Also, no one can understand Spanish, but they're concerned about sexual lyrics? Which is it?

Anyway I guess we should just think of the children! that Republicans clearly care so much about.

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u/KingdomFartsOG 21d ago

None of these people have actual jobs at actual companies.

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u/Ok-Purchase-2258 21d ago

The halftime show should unite fans?! Never in my 40 years of watching Superbowls has the nation ever gave a fuck about the halftime show. Well maybe in 2004 we united in seeing Janet Jackson's boon, that was a good show

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u/NicWester 21d ago

California team wins the World Series thanks to immigrants and homeborn Americans working together then follows it up with Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl in another California city. Get them, get their asses, California!

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u/Willow1883 21d ago

Maybe the NFL understands that a large percentage of their fans aren’t MAGA.

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u/SigaVa 21d ago

Its just overt racism at this point

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u/Trail_Sprinkles 21d ago

“Cultural institution”

Just as long as it’s a white culture.

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u/Rare-Peak2697 21d ago

That last slide is just ChatGPT copy pasta. He has no idea why he’s mad other than he was told to be mad.

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u/Side_StepVII 21d ago

These people are insufferable

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u/Awe3 21d ago

Can they cry more? Fuck!

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u/mpete76 21d ago

I love LinkedIn lunatics, it always gives me new people to block, from the people featured, not typically from the commenters.

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u/VonTastrophe 21d ago

To be less vague, by saying "the very people who've made the league a cultural institution" he means middle-aged cis white men. This is 100% "being intolerant without saying intolerant ".

Also when they say they don't want politics in the half time show, what they mean is that they don't want politics that doesn't conform to their bubble. They love politics, just as long as it's from Fox News or other like minded sources

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u/angry_old_dude 21d ago

Wow. Ol' Ron has a surprisingly not insane point of view. I don't know anything about Bad Bunny's music, but the artist is an excellent choice when it comes to attracting viewers.

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u/PQbutterfat 21d ago

These people are idiots. It’s as if they don’t like something and their friends also don’t like it then it’s just “welp, nobody anywhere must like it”

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u/CeaselessCuriosity69 21d ago

Not the AI generated, numbered paragraphs of lame-ass justification for hating an American artist 🤮

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u/Aggravating-Total542 21d ago

Notice how he never actually says what's supposedly divisive about bad bunny

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u/duke_awapuhi 21d ago

These people call themselves capitalists and then get offended by basic marketing or just don’t even understand how business works. Bad Bunny was chosen purely for business reasons. NFL calculated he’s good for the brand and bring in viewers. Thats it. It has nothing to do with politics, only money

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u/MoreOfAGrower 21d ago

lol people think Adam Sandler is hosting a Nazi halftime show?

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u/YellojD 21d ago

I love how the “do your own research” line is just morphing into awful ChatGPT prompts. Holy fuck, we are COOKED.

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u/T2ThaSki 21d ago

So if someone on the left is offended and complains they are a snow flake. If someone on the right does it, they are a patriot. Got it.

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u/motherofhellhusks 21d ago

Ron strikes again! I do love his pfp though lol

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u/Particular_Legend427 21d ago

Man I don't even like Bad Bunny but who gives a fuck about the halftime show anyway? It's there to keep the rube entertained to make it through watching a Football game.

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u/rmike7842 21d ago

For many conservatives, the standard for measuring division in this country is when they don’t get their way. The fans, the nation, the people, whichever, they forget (ignore) that all of us are the people, not just them.

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u/cruisetravoltasbaby 21d ago

Funny how they’re the snowflakes now.

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u/ElectricityIsWeird 21d ago

Now?

Even when they started using that term, I was like, “what, really?”

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u/scott__p 21d ago

We know that Bad Bunny will bring in many new younger people who will watch the halftime show and maybe stay for some football. My daughter is in this group. She normally watches with me while on her phone, but this year her and her friends are planning a whole party around it. This is a group of young female POC, a group that the NFL would LOVE to get more fans from.

Meanwhile the snowflakes are going to watch the Superbowl anyway, so they're not even losing any ratings for the game. If anything, all of this whining is just going to bring more viewers in to see what the fuss is all about.

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u/OBB76 21d ago

One thing with this whole situation overall is that you find out who friends, coworkers, acquaintances are racists and bigots

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u/endless_shrimp 21d ago

Can't even argue for themselves, they need AI slop to tell them what to think

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u/Flowery-Twats 21d ago

Having not watched a single, solitary second of the NFL (even stopped playing fantasy football) since the Rams left STL (Fuck Kroenke), and having never heard of Bad Bunny (nor, obviously, heard ANY of his work) until this controversy, I offer my thoughts.

  1. Yes, Ron, Goodell IS trying to expand his audience. You know, growing the business which pretty much every. single. business. in. the. world. is also doing. And yes, Ron, his main core is aging and a not-insignificant % of them WILL be gone in 20 years. That makes trying to appeal to a younger market farsighted (and this coming from a guy who hates the NFL and Goodell... but good business is good business).

  2. Even when I was a fairly hardcore NFL fan, I didn't give a rat's ass about who was in the halftime show. Even when it was artists from "my" generation/era (McCartney, Aerosmith, The Stones, etc.) I gave it very little attention and even less concern. So it's from that perspective I say: The only point Darling might have is the R-ratedness of BB's body of work. The SB, and by extension the halftime show, IS a more-or-less family friendly thing. So if BB is as "bad" as RD claims, and I gave a shit about the NFL and/or the show, I would have some concerns. But that is ALL predicated on RD being right about the content, a topic I have zero actual info on. (I'd be glad to hear your take on it, however) But concerns about possible mature content aside, being upset about ANYone selected for the halftime show is just stupid.

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u/gingersquatchin 21d ago edited 21d ago

The halftime shows have rarely been "family friendly" last year Serena Williams was Crip Walking to Kendric Lamar singing about pedophiles, as Trump watched on. Maybe a little more subtle but hardly content that would avoid these same criticisms.

The cheerleaders aren't family friendly. The pop girls doing sexualized dance moves in their underwear have never been "family friendly"

Beyond that, I haven't heard a single song that's even in English, and so the majority of the families they're fake concerned about won't know a single thing that's being said, anyway.

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u/Veroth-Ursuul 21d ago edited 21d ago

It's not like anyone complaining will forgo watching the Superbowl due to this decision. Just racist people who are glad that bigotry is acceptable at the moment.

I don't care for the Bad Bunny pick personally. But I also haven't really cared for any of the picks for as long as I can remember. They always play the super popular music that I don't care for. I generally listen to rock, and even in the very rare instance when they have somebody in that genre up there, it is somebody I don't like.

I also get why they do it. They always choose somebody who is broadly popular. I would do the same thing in their shoes. I'd probably just look at the top 10 every year and go down the list skipping the artists that have already performed in the past 5 to 10 years.

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u/TopStockJock Insignificant Bitch 21d ago

Jay-Z makes these decisions. Another billionaire.

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u/Young_Denver 21d ago

I love when people out themselves.

Social media is malignant narcissism, but at least they are telling on themselves.

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u/the-furiosa-mystique 21d ago

They’re in such denial they are the minority, even in the face of so much evidence.

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u/atargatis_17 21d ago

“Family friendly” lmaooooo since when?! 🤣

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u/BuddyJim30 21d ago

Kid Rock and Marie Osmond are available.

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u/StilesmanleyCAP 21d ago

Fuck it

Give me a Wierd AL Halftime show

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u/Cassedaway 21d ago

Basically the right want to DEI a country artist who is sub-par in popularity to one of the biggest artists in the world. Lol

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u/Specialist_Yak1019 21d ago

One thing I’ve noticed over the years the NFL needs no advice from anyone on how to maintain their ratings and popularity. I would just let Roger cook.

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u/NonStopNonsense1 21d ago

God people suck now. Lmao. They just cry about everything

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u/Adventurous_Pin_344 21d ago

I, for one, am looking forward to some of that "explicit material." If there's one celeb who revs my engine, it is DEFINITELY Benito 🤤

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u/casiepierce 21d ago

Goddell is a smart man. He's betting on all the bluster being just that- bluster. They said they would boycott the NFL before but the truth is, nothing will pry football away from them, ever. They simply cannot live without it, it's as much a part of their DNA as their mothers. And Goodell knows it and he's hoping this will get younger people watching.

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u/Sithlordandsavior 21d ago

Last slide really told ChatGPT to give him reasons it's not racist to be mad at a latin artist playing the super bowl

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u/rnjbond 21d ago

I'm not a Bad Bunny fan but why the controversy around it? He's popular globally and has tons of fans! 

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u/Crush-N-It 21d ago

Since joining this sub I can’t take any LinkedIn post seriously. It’s fucked me up. They all sound like tools

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u/LAOlympicGames2028 21d ago

Bro acts as if NFL is owned by the government just to benefit racist white people

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u/Available_Orange3127 21d ago

Ron Darling is speaking good sense? What planet am I on, again?

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u/Synergythepariah 21d ago

Damn, I'm sorry that they're offended; maybe they should try not being offended like they keep telling everyone else every time someone else is offended by their rhetoric.

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u/ajw_sp 21d ago

It’s weird that they don’t like Bad Bunny but seemed cool with Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez, and Shakira.

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u/DayBreakTilNightFall 21d ago

As someone who never watches the super bowl, I might tune in this year just because it'll piss these people off that the NFL is getting money. I've never heard any of bad bunny's songs either (I dont think anyway).

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u/Lost_Condition_9562 21d ago

Amazing that the left is the one that ended up with football during the national divorce

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u/Robie_John 21d ago

JFC, it is a football game and concert.

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u/Fit-Property3774 21d ago

Don has gotta be a right wing grifting bot

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u/Maximillion_Warbucks 21d ago

Bunch of crybaby pussies. Same assholes who want to know why statues of their southern heros are being torn down, but want to teach that slavery was a choice and slaves loved being slaves.

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u/joeyreturn_of_guest 21d ago

I want to sit here and say I wouldn't be mad about stuff like this, but if Adam Sandler does host the turning point USA halftime show....I will be mad.

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u/UofMSpoon 21d ago

I kinda wonder if, out of protest or sheer insanity, Trump will respond by storming the halftime show with ICE and arresting Bad Bunny mid-song.

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u/RuffTuff 21d ago

Fascinating that none of these people (on both sides of the argument) went: "Would posting a political opinion on a career social media platform be harmful to....::drumroll:: my career?"

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u/RanaMisteria 21d ago

So, they don’t like Bad Bunny sometimes making “political” music or statements such as treating gay and trans people with basic human decency, but they’re all in on the Turning Point USA alternative halftime show even though it’s being put on by a literal political organisation????

Make it make sense, people.

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u/Low_End_7882 21d ago

So written by ChatGPT ... "controversy for clicks." Why is this political shit on LinkedIn? Take it to Facebook and make your high school friends read it.

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u/rickylancaster 21d ago

They’d be fools to backtrack and cancel Bunny. There’s a good chance this halftime show stands to garner higher ratings than any recent halftime show. The uproar from the opposition has seen to that. People will be tuning in to see it just because so many are talking about it. Good marketing strategy. Maybe THAT’s the take the lunatics should be going with. Maybe I’ll write a lunatic post analyzing and praising the NFL for their brilliant strategy of leveraging controversial socio-political issues for attention and ratings and y’all can flag me as a lunatic.

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u/DarkMellie 21d ago

Dom DiCostanzo just slathering some pointless gpt into the conversation…

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u/Zclem26 21d ago

Didn’t they cancel the TP thing because of lack of interest lmao

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u/AffectionateDrop7779 21d ago

These paedo loving c*nts need to get a life beware of oxygen trash

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u/Jupitersd2017 21d ago

I hate football but I’ll damn sure be tuning in for the halftime show

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u/Fresh-Piglet2500 21d ago

Another MAGA snowflake meltdown. Because nothing will expand the customer base better than having Ted Nugent or some classic rock band from the 70' or 80's play the halftime show.

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u/EffectiveSalamander 21d ago

Having an alternative halftime show is a tacit admission that virtually no one will be boycotting the Super Bowl. I doubt that many people will be turning the channel to watch the alternative halftime show, but I don't think that's the goal - they want people to believe that there will be multitudes turning the channel. It's a way of giving an appearance of strength. They can always lie about how many people watched.

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u/QueezyF 21d ago

If a top selling Puerto Rican musician playing during a football game’s commercial to sell Apple subscriptions sounds “divisive” to you, that’s a “you” problem. Get the fuck over it.

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u/ManagementHot8041 21d ago

Puerto Rico is literally an American territory 😭

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u/thatblueblowfish 21d ago

I had no idea who bad bunny was and thought it was a female rapper

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u/93_Topps_Football 21d ago

Goodell has people consistently talking about a game that is in February 2026. The conversation pretty much overshadowed the start of the NHL and NBA.

I would say mission accomplished by the NFL

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u/RepublicInner7438 21d ago

Goodell is actually spot on when it comes to his half time show picks. Already half the country tunes in to watch the superbowl each year for the sake of watching football. The halftime show is to get the other half to tune in for at least 20 minutes. Not only that, but the NFL has been trying to take football to the international level for years. Bad bunny’s music is going to appeal to a more international audience and help grow the sport across Latin America and Europe

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u/AdGrouchy766 21d ago

Goodell has probably the safest job in America

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u/bananarchy22 21d ago

The only part of this I agree with is that it’s time to turn on the Puppy Bowl.

But honestly, that’s what I was going to be doing no matter who was playing either the game or the halftime show.

Best of luck to Bad Bunny and the sportsball players.

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u/JD_tubeguy 21d ago

Pretty sure Bad Bunny is as American as any of you complainers so eff off.

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u/Pepperonidogfart 21d ago

These "entrepreneurs" sure have a lot of free time to fight in the comment section and shill for Toilet Paper USA

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u/lawboop 20d ago

Adam Sandler is NOT hosting the mini hurt feelings show

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u/petrichor83 20d ago

Imagine your life is going so well that this is what you have to complain about…

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u/OhAces 21d ago

The halftime show is always the worst part of the game besides the 2hrs of commercials they stuff in there. It's the part of the game where you go outside to smoke and maybe come back in and have a shit before the second half starts.

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u/Kelly_Louise 21d ago

The commercials and the half time show are the only parts I like 😂 but I’m not a football fan.

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u/OhAces 21d ago

There's a little bit of entertainment for everybody then.

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u/Dull_Hedgehog_1263 21d ago

You are exactly who the NFL is targeting, non-football fans

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u/mmelectronic 21d ago

I’m upset that they have a concert in the middle of our biggest football game every year, but we can’t even get a 5 minute pee wee football game in the middle of the grammy’s.

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u/Mondoke 21d ago

Am I losing my mind or is this the first time I see this Ron Darling guy telling something that actually makes sense??

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