Once the NFL decides they want to go country again with the Super Bowl, they’ll be happy to know that country music is more than ready to jump back onto the Super Bowl halftime show stage. It’s been a long time since a country music artist was the headliner for the Super Bowl halftime show… over 20 years to be more specific. Shania Twain was the halftime show performer in 2003, and before that, country took center stage at the iconic 1994 show that featured the likes of Clint Black, Tanya Tucker, Travis Tritt, and The Judds at the Georgia Dome. Talk about a dream, 90s country music lineup. There’s an undoubtable yearning for country music to take the Super Bowl’s biggest stage again. And now does seem like a great time, since country music has more global reach than it ever has. Artists like Luke Combs, Zach Bryan and Morgan Wallen have been regularly selling out football stadiums all around the world… particularly in Europe, where the NFL has been hosting a ton of games in the past few years. It would make a lot of sense to tap one of those big names to headline the Super Bowl halftime show one day. Speaking of Luke Combs, while he was on ESPN’s Monday Night Football “ManningCast” this past week, he confirmed that he’d have interest in playing at the “Big Game.” Hosts Peyton and Eli Manning asked Luke if he’d entertain the idea of entertaining others during the Super Bowl, and Combs – a die-hard Carolina Panthers fan – said yes, and laid out his dream scenario of how it would go down: “That’s a big question. I’d like to perform at the Super Bowl, and the Panthers win the same Super Bowl. Why not both, Eli? Why not both.” There you have it… one of the biggest country music artists in the world would love to be asked to play at the “Big Game.” To be clear, a Luke Combs Super Bowl Halftime Show isn’t coming in 2026. That honor belongs to Bad Bunny. The global superstar and Puerto Rican rapper, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, is still set to headline the Big Game’s biggest stage on February 8… despite calls by an NFL legend to sub in a country artist, and a petition to have Bad Bunny replaced by the “King of Country” himself, George Strait. But this seems like a win-win scenario that hopefully (fingers crossed) could play out in the next couple of years. Though I’m not gonna hold my breath waiting for the Carolina Panthers to make it the Super Bowl, I could very well see some mutual interest between Luke Combs and the NFL to bring country music back to the “Big Game’s” stage. I’d say the ball is in the court of the National Football League, but that’d be lazy phrasing by me (can’t use a tennis/basketball reference in a football-related story). Instead, I’ll say that the Luke Combs pigskin has been moved into the NFL’s red zone… here’s to hoping they are able to get into the end zone and make it happen.The post Luke Combs Says He’d Love To Perform The Super Bowl Halftime Show… & There’s One Particular Scenario That He Dreams About first appeared on Whiskey Riff.