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Brett Favre Says “Someone Who Loves This Country” Like Jason Aldean Or George Strait Should Play Super Bowl Halftime Show
Brett Favre thinks the NFL should call an audible with their Super Bowl Halftime Show performer.
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard that Bad Bunny will headline Super Bowl LX’s halftime show on February 8. The global superstar and Puerto Rican rapper, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has been in a news a lot since the NFL tapped him for the job. There were a lot of rumors as to who would grace the Super Bowl Halftime stage, with many assuming that Taylor Swift would be chosen since she’s been so intertwined with the NFL in the past couple of years.
Some even thought that this would be the year that country music would return to the big game’s biggest stage, but that didn’t happen either. Instead, the NFL went with Bad Bunny.
To be clear, it’s not like that decision came out of nowhere, and isn’t backed up by the numbers. Bad Bunny is undoubtedly a musical powerhouse when it comes to global reach and popularity. He boasts 77.4 million monthly listeners on Spotify, and he made history when he became the first ever artist to capture the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with an all-Spanish language project. And if the NFL wants to try and expand its empire into Latin America… it’s a no-brainer.
But since the announcement, it’s been clear that there’s a large population that wishes the NFL would have gone a different way. One of the people in that group would be former NFL star Brett Favre. On his 4th and Favre podcast, he and co-host David Kano discussed what makes a good musical performance during the Super Bowl, and the former Green Bay Packer and Minnesota Vikings quarterback harkened back to 1991:
“I remember when Whitney Houston sang the National Anthem (before Super Bowl XXV) and I was blown away. If you didn’t have tears in your eyes watching and listening to that, something’s wrong with you. I envision a national anthem and a halftime show – they’re two different things – that it really grabs you.”
That’s when the attention turned to the halftime show itself.
Favre was asked, if he were the NFL commissioner, who he would have chosen as the halftime performer for this upcoming Super Bowl. Kano even asked if he’d still go with Bad Bunny… and spoiler alert, Brett Favre said he wouldn’t:
“I’d pick someone who — maybe Jason Aldean – someone who loves this country and that everyone could relate to. I think Jason Aldean right now is as big of a patriot (as there is) and has a great voice. I like George Strait, that’s old school. There are a lot of choices out there… I threw George Strait out, he might be like, ‘I ain’t doing that.’ The guy has, I don’t know how many number ones he’s had. Good Lord, it’s enormous. I don’t think he’s ever done it. That would be a pretty cool act to watch.”
Jason Aldean and/or George Strait? Not a bad idea.
And he’s not alone in thinking that the “King of Country” would have been a good choice. There’s one petition out there that now has over 110,000 signatures attempting to get country music legend George Strait to step in for the Puerto Rican artist as the Super Bowl halftime entertainment. Not that anything is going to happen because of it… but clearly 60,000 people – and Brett Favre – see it as a better option.
You can hear Brett Favre talk more about his alternate ideas for the Super Bowl halftime performer below:
4th and Favre – Episode 3
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