In a one-sided match, the Seattle Seahawks dominated Super Bowl LX, beating the Boston Patriots 29 to 13 , but the winner of the American football final was Puerto Rican Bad Bunny : fresh from three Grammy wins last Sunday, including Best Album, the Debi Tirar Mas Fotos superstar, who last year interrupted his US tour to avoid exposing fans to threats from ICE, brought his 'pink casita' and a message of unity to Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California: «Together we are America, the only thing more powerful than hate is love» .
And Donald Trump took offense: "It was the worst show ever, a slap in the face to America. No one understands a word , and the dancing is disgusting, especially for children," the White House chief said on Truth, following the game from Mar-a-Lago, having chosen to skip the Super Bowl partly because the NFL chose to award halftime to an American citizen who sings only in Spanish.
For America, the Super Bowl is a great secular celebration that, like Thanksgiving, should unite a divided country. Puerto Rican Bad Bunny recreated a veritable village at the stadium, populated by stars like Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, Cardi B, Pedro Pascal, and Jessica Alba, as well as real-life characters, a Los Angeles taqueria, and, from Brooklyn, one of the last remaining Puerto Rican social clubs in New York. There was even a child to whom former supermarket cashier Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio presented the Grammy Award-winning gramophone: for many, it evoked little Liam Ramos, deported from Minnesota to Texas , a tragedy that moved half of America in recent weeks.
The show, almost entirely in Spanish, celebrated Puerto Rican culture as part of American culture, given that Puerto Rico's residents are American citizens. Many Hispanics were moved by the performance.
Dressed in a tracksuit designed by Zara, Bad Bunny closed the halftime show by listing the names of all the North and South American nations and closing with "God Bless America." The halftime show in Spanish revealed the NFL's interest in expanding its audience beyond the US, even though the reaction from Trump and conservatives demonstrated that many in the audience are unwilling to share the event with the rest of the world. For many Americans, not just in the Maga world, the Super Bowl is a popular national event where the patriotism of flags and anthems has survived in the current divisive era.
(Unioneonline)
