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Bad Bunny Super Bowl Protest, Yeah!

7 months philmaggitti , 
A baby curiously touching a man's face while he lies on grass.
The NFL’s halftime optics reach Kafkaesque levels as riot agents chase holograms across a stadium of chanting fans.

I am boycotting Super Bowl XXX next year in favor of, hell, just about anything on the 2,786 other channels at my disposal. It isn’t the dame’s violence, or the militarized snack ads, or the talking heads who put the ass in asinine, nor even the fact that the NFL now resembles a crypto casino with shoulder pads. No, Skippy, I am joining the Bad Bunny Super Bowl protest–a personal and principled stand against the NFL’s  descent into algorithmic virtue signaling and halftime holograms.

From Smashmouth to Smugmouth

The Super Bowl halftime show used to be a sacred rite: middle-aged rock stars rising from a flaming stage, surrounded by dancers dressed as sentient Doritos. It was honest. It was stupid. It was American. Now we get something that calls himself Bad Bunny, an auto-tuned emissary of the NFL’s new religion: curated diversity, corporate empathy, and algorithmic cool.

Reasons for the Bad Bunny Super Bowl Protest

Conservatives are not just rolling their eyes–they are lighting torches. This is the same Bad Bunny who said he would not perform in the U.S. because ICE might target his fans. That’s right: the NFL booked a guy who thinks Homeland Security is lurking in the parking lot with binoculars and a reggaetón detector. This bozo is not just anti-Trump; he is anti-tailgate. And now he is headlining America’s most sacred testosterone ritual.

The League of Extraordinary Optics

Bad Bunny sings in three languages, none of which are sincerity. He will dance atop a holographic Puerto Rican flag. Roger Goodell will weep into a bowl of quinoa as he watches this chosen avatar of the NFL’s optics department, summoned to appease the gods of TikTok and quarterly earnings.

So I will be abstaining. Maybe I will be watching reruns of 1994 Bears games, where the only diversity initiative was letting the punter drink beer. I will be lighting candles to the ghost of Mike Ditka. I will be praying for a future where sports are once again stupid, violent, and gloriously unidentified with wokeness.

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The preceding is satire. Straight up, Skippy. No warranties are expressed or implied. For life advice, try a professional. For investment tips, try a dart board. For salvation, the gentleman in the robe has been handling that portfolio for 2,000 years.