Whether you watched or not, Bad Bunny had a Super Bowl Halftime Show message for you.
“God bless America,” he said in the finale of his performance at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif, before listing off the countries in South and Central America and holding up a football that read, “Together we are America.”
In a point of emphasis, he spiked the ball to end his show.
That came after the rapper marched around midfield with a contingent of background dancers carrying international flags, with the stadium’s video board bearing a message that read, “The only things more powerful than hate is love.”
The 31-year-old, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, brought the message to viewers after weeks of consternation from those upset with the decision to have him headline the show.
Bad Bunny naming dozens of countries in the Americas and then holding up a football that reads “together we are America”….such an iconic Super Bowl performance wow pic.twitter.com/zU3R8WBkNL
— Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) February 9, 2026
While he did perform entirely in Spanish — he was also joined by the likes of Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin in doing so — he also held true to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s promises as he was called upon to replace him as the show’s lead.
One of the reasons the NFL picked Bad Bunny, Goodell said after Bad Bunny’s anti-ICE speech at the Grammy Awards, was because he “understood the platform he was on and that this platform is to use to unite people and to be able to bring people together with their creativity, with their talents, and to be able to use this moment to do that.
“I think artists in the past have done that. I think Bad Bunny understands that, and I think he’ll have a great performance.”
