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In an October 2025 episode of Bill Maher<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s Club Random podcast, Charlie Sheen<\/strong><\/a> said the NFL needs to \u201cfigure out the halftime show\u201d and deliver \u201csomething that the diehard fans really want, as far as musically.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maher asked if that was a \u201cbackhanded slight to Bad Bunny.\u201d Sheen didn\u2019t hesitate. \u201cYeah. I mean, there\u2019s bands, there\u2019s acts, there\u2019s just people that I think are more germane to the experience of the game, of that moment, of that particular game. It\u2019s the biggest game in the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maher agreed. \u201cI\u2019m sure Mr. Bunny is wonderful,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean, it\u2019s a reflection on me that I don\u2019t know his work as well as I can, but I\u2019m of a different era. I was hoping the halftime show would be Eddie Rabbit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The clip resurfaced on Super Bowl Sunday. By then, quite a lot had happened.<\/p>\n

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\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 CHARLIE SHEEN TO BILL MAHER: \u201cBAD BUNNY SHOULDN\u2019T DO THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s bands, there\u2019s acts, there\u2019s just people that are more germane to the experience of the game!\u201d<\/p>\n

Maher:<\/p>\n

\u201cI agree\u201dpic.twitter.com\/rZZq65mlFx<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What Happened Since October<\/h2>\n

Bad Bunny\u2019s album Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos<\/em> won Album of the Year at the Latin Grammys in November \u2014 the first album to win that category at both the Latin Grammys and, later, the Grammys. Spotify named him the most-streamed artist on the planet for 2025, with 19.8 billion streams. It was his fourth time holding that title. No other artist has done it more than twice.<\/p>\n

On February 1, he stood on the Grammy stage and became the first artist in the ceremony\u2019s 68-year history to win Album of the Year for a Spanish-language record. He dedicated it to \u201call the people who had to leave their homeland, their country, to follow their dreams.\u201d Earlier that night, accepting Best M\u00fasica Urbana Album, he said: \u201cICE out. We\u2019re not savage. We\u2019re not animals. We\u2019re not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then later today, he will headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show at Levi\u2019s Stadium in Santa Clara, California \u2014 the first solo Latino artist and the first Spanish-language performer to do so, in front of an estimated 130 million viewers.<\/p>\n

Charlie Sheen said this man wasn\u2019t germane<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Bad Bunny posts a photo from Grammys night. Source: Bad Bunny (@badbunnypr) on Instagram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Who Are the \u2018Diehard Fans\u2019?<\/h2>\n

Sheen\u2019s argument rested on the idea that the halftime show should serve \u201cdiehard fans.\u201d But the NFL\u2019s own data suggests the diehard fans aren\u2019t who Sheen thinks they are.<\/p>\n

In 2024, NFL Senior Vice President Marissa Solis said the league has over 39 million Latino fans in the United States \u2014 one of its largest demographics \u2014 and that future growth is \u201cmathematically impossible without Latinos.\u201d The league\u2019s \u201cPor La Cultura\u201d campaign, launched in 2021, was built specifically to cultivate that audience through Spanish-language broadcasts and cultural partnerships.<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny\u2019s most recent concert tours sold over 2.4 million tickets and grossed $435 million. His 2022 world tour set the record for the highest-grossing tour in a single calendar year. He has had four albums debut at number one on the Billboard 200 \u2014 all of them entirely in Spanish.<\/p>\n

Roger Goodell defended the selection twice publicly, in October and again on February 2, calling Bad Bunny \u201cone of the greatest artists in the world.\u201d Jay-Z dismissed the opposition as astroturfing.<\/p>\n

Eddie Rabbit<\/strong><\/a> died in 1998.<\/p>\n

The Bigger Backdrop<\/h2>\n
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Image credit: @badbunny.brasil\/Instagram; @kidrock\/Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sheen and Maher weren\u2019t the only ones questioning the pick. Conservative commentator Benny Johnson called Bad Bunny a \u201cmassive Trump hater\u201d and criticized that he performs primarily in Spanish. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson suggested Lee Greenwood as an alternative, saying Bad Bunny lacked \u201ccrossover appeal to the critical mass of Americans.\u201d Turning Point USA announced Kid Rock as counter-programming. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced ICE agents would be present at the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny addressed the noise during his Saturday Night Live appearance in October. \u201cIf you didn\u2019t understand what I just said,\u201d he told the audience after speaking in Spanish, \u201cyou have four months to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two Guys, One Admission<\/h2>\n

What makes the clip land isn\u2019t that Sheen and Maher dislike Bad Bunny. It\u2019s that they both openly admit they don\u2019t know his music \u2014 and then declare he doesn\u2019t belong anyway.<\/p>\n

Sheen is 60. Maher is 70. Between them, they have zero familiarity with the work of the most-streamed artist on Earth. And from that position, they concluded he isn\u2019t \u201cgermane\u201d to an event the NFL specifically designed to reach the audience Bad Bunny already owns.<\/p>\n

Sheen spent his October questioning whether a 31-year-old from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, had earned the biggest stage in American entertainment. Bad Bunny spent his February proving he had.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n