Tommy Tuberville says Super Bowl is 'getting more and more woke' with Bad Bunny's halftime show
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., went to the Super Bowl last year, but this year might be a no-go for the SEC championship-winning football coach.
The former Auburn football coach did not explicitly say he wouldn't be watching the game, but he did say that Bad Bunny's halftime show was off-limits.
"Unfortunately, we’ve got, I call it the Woke Bowl, because we’re getting more and more woke," Tuberville told Newsmax in a recent interview.
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Tommy Tuberville is not happy that Bad Bunny is this year's Super Bowl halftime show performer. (Tom Williams and John Nacion/Getty Images)
"And we’ve got Bad Bunny, or Bad Rabbit, at halftime. I'll be watching the (Turning Point USA) halftime show. It's just unfortunate we've gotten to this point."
Tuberville's apparent protest comes days after President Donald Trump announced that he will not be at the big game.
"It’s just too far away," Trump said of the game at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. "I would, I’ve [gotten] great hands [at] the Super Bowl. They like me."
Bad Bunny's nod to do the halftime show has been criticized, even by Trump.
Bad Bunny watches Game 3 of the second round of the 2025 NBA Playoffs between the Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on May 10, 2025. (Wendell Cruz/Imagn Images)
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"I don’t know who he is," Trump told Newsmax of the choice last fall. "I don’t know why they’re doing it. It’s crazy. And then they blame it on some promoter they hired to pick up entertainment. I think it’s


