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The NFL is Too Big to Fail

by Andrew Tuttle
10/21/25
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Last month the NFL announced the Super Bowl halftime entertainment for the 2025 season which sent those on the right in a tizzy.

Ban it!

And, of course the usual article-end comments: “NFL who?” or “I don’t watch the National Felons League. Haven’t for years!” And the popular “I haven’t watched since they started kneeling.” Suuuure you haven’t.

News flash. Nobody cares. Americans love football and they will watch in February especially if the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers take the field.

The problem with conservatives, Republicans, so-called ‘Mericans, and anyone else on the right, who flips out when their favorite institution(s) embrace counterculture elites, comes from their inability to do anything except complain then run to the hills. Most of those described in the previous sentence will watch the Super Bowl. The NFL already has existing problems that should make any of those listed above ban the league.

But a (I think) transgender (maybe gay?) foulmouthed rapper from another country that hates the United States who doesn’t speak (or at least “sing” in) English and whose stage name resembles that of a small-town stripper, well, that finally crosses the line! Por favor.

Maybe for a tiny few. But not for a vast majority. You seen stadiums this year? Filled. Ticket prices? People will take a second mortgage to go. And for the first time, you can watch every game if you so choose and have all the available streaming platforms. The NFL would not engage in such a practice if the fanbase didn’t exist to watch.

As such, the NFL is too big to fail.

Don’t misunderstand. Picking Bad Bunny (I am literally embarrassed to type that) as the Super Bowl Halftime Show, shows how much Commissioner Roger Goodell cares about what you think. Because he knows you will still tune in every weekend all the way through Feb. 8, 2026.

He also has his eyes on bringing the NFL to the world. Notice all the international games? The beta male rapper from Puerto Rico (sorry just couldn’t type out that stupid name again) who wears dresses and paints his fingernails has fans who Goodell wants to reach. And if the beta male who wears dresses and paints his fingernails comes to the United States to perform - after vowing he never would because of the legitimate and voted for crackdown on illegal immigration - all because of a big pay day – guess who follows him to the Super Bowl? His fans.

Goodell knows those already in his pocket will tune in, no matter what, despite their protests. Forget the petition to get George Strait to perform. First off, Goodell will not change the Super Bowl Halftime performer all because of an online petition. Especially when the peition calls for an older, white male. Second, George Strait’s fanbase won’t ban the Super Bowl.

If Goodell really wanted to impress and perhaps make this year’s Super Bowl one of the most watched and remembered, he would have chosen a band birthed out of the Bay area, that recently completed a massive stadium world tour celebrating their 40^th anniversary with far more global fans than the stripper who will be irrelevant in five years.

Talk ban all you want. Because in the end you won’t ban the Super Bowl. I won’t either, not that I ever was going to. And if Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers play the Green Bay Packers – no one will ban the show. If the Kansas City Chiefs return, again, to play whoever rises from the national side, expect Americans to still watch in droves.

Because the NFL is too big to fail.

Even if showcasing a silly little man who wears dresses and disses America that lip syncs through an entire halftime performance filled with subtle and not so subtle digs at our culture all for the purpose of getting a rise out of those watching.

Because that’s what strippers do.