I just canceled my upcoming Super Bowl LX party. Want to know why I am boycotting the Super Bowl?
The NFL has become openly hostile to my values as a Christian and an American, while aggressively pushing political and cultural messaging that I fundamentally reject. I’m through contributing, passively or otherwise, to the left’s erosion of both faith and country.
The NFL choosing Bad Bunny as the halftime performer, despite mainstream fans’ protests, was the last straw for me. The Puerto Rican rapper has made no secret of his hatred of President Donald Trump and was one of many recipients who slammed ICE at the recent Grammy Awards. I get the left wanting this guy to perform: it’s a huge middle finger to Trump. However, it’s also an f-you to half the NFL viewership who support the President.
“But it’s just a game, Dex. Ignore the politics and enjoy the contest.”
I’ve heard that line for years, and I’m finished pretending it’s true. The idea that people can separate sports from politics only works when one side isn’t constantly forcing its ideology into the spectacle. Why am I always expected to bite my tongue in the face of blatant offense?
No more.
If this means walking away from the NFL, so be it. NBA viewership cratered after fans pushed back against the league doubling down on relentless political messaging. The NFL isn’t immune to the same consequences.
And yes, I know the history. The NFL was as American as apple pie: Vince Lombardi, the “Steel Curtain”, the “Doomsday Defense”, Jim Brown, Tom Brady, the ’73 Dolphins. That’s precisely what makes this so frustrating. When you think of all that bygone greatness, it’s tough to imagine it tied to the NFL in its current virtue-signaling form.
Today’s NFL feels less like a sports league and more like a cultural activism platform. From performative protests to overproduced halftime shows designed to provoke, to the constant insistence that coaching hires must satisfy political narratives rather than merit, the league has lost the plot.
Can we go back to a time when athletes played, coaches coached, and politics stayed out of sports? When halftime shows didn’t alienate half the audience? When excellence, not ideology, was the standard?
Instead, leftist politics now infect everything: sports, movies, music, history, and even children’s programming. And it’s always the same ideology, pushed everywhere, all the time. At some point, it stops feeling organic and starts feeling coercive.
Let’s be honest. The left’s constant saturation is designed to convince you that your values are outdated, marginal, or irrelevant. That your faith doesn’t belong in public life. That resistance is futile. That’s not persuasion: that’s cultural gaslighting. And judging by the number of churches flying political banners and the number of Republicans more eager to attack conservatives than oppose the left, it’s been disturbingly effective.
Enough.
It’s time to start calling bad ideas exactly what they are: warped, destructive, and disconnected from reality. It’s also time to refuse participation. Life is too short to willingly subject ourselves to content we find offensive while trying to relax and enjoy a game.
So yes, that’s why I’m boycotting the 2026 Super Bowl. I won’t be sitting through commercials that demean half the country, halftime shows I have to walk out on, or broadcasts more focused on ideological compliance than on the sport itself.
I’ll take old-fashioned competition, merit, and excellence, without the propaganda, any day.
