r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 6h ago
article Dropkick Murphys Frontman Calls Out NFL for Hypocritical Stance Toward Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Performance: "The NFL... made everybody sit through a Charlie Kirk moment of silence"
https://consequence.net/2026/02/dropkick-murphys-bad-bunny-super-bowl/2.1k
u/Future-Turtle 6h ago
Common Ken Casey W.
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u/FuckChiefs_Raiders 5h ago
It’s not. He’s misinformed. The NFL did not make all NFL teams do a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk. Some NFL teams didn’t do it.
This was a direct push from ownership.
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u/Future-Turtle 5h ago
Doesn't change his overall point that Goodell didn't tell people "Let's leave politics out of it" when it was right wing politics.
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u/Caleb-Blucifer 3h ago
Oh yeah but that’s because it’s not politics. It’s common sense. /s
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u/Turbotottle 5h ago
I'm pretty sure the first game after his death (Packers v Commanders) the moment of silence was put in motion by the NFL. So they held a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk and then right after they held another one because the game was on 9/11.
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u/hyvel0rd 5h ago
Still, the NFL said that "the NFL" is not a platform for political discourse. And since teams (including the people who own those teams) are part of the NFL, that should apply to them as well.
So he's not right, but he's technically right.
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u/someguyfromsomething 4h ago
You're misinformed (or more likely deliberately distorting the truth). He did not make the claim that the NFL made all teams do it. He said:
they also made everybody sit through a Charlie Kirk moment of silence,
He's talking about the Nationally Televised Thursday Night game where the NFL made that decision
With league commissioner Roger Goodell in attendance for that game, it was the NFL's decision to have the moment of silence.
Try harder next time, I'm sure you'll do better.
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u/bentreflection 3h ago
They mandated it for the Thursday night game just not every game of the entire week
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u/dbmma 5h ago edited 4h ago
Sorry but that's a distinction without a difference here.
NFL ownership are the most significant stakeholders of the NFL. Them pushing something at games is not mutually exclusive from the NFL.
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u/PassiveMenis88M 3h ago
You're misinformed, he never said all teams had to. He said "made everyone sit through it", and he's right. The teams playing the Thursday night game were forced to have a moment of silence.
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u/herdofcorey 5h ago
Baltimore Ravens sure didn’t have one for that fuckwad.
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u/OrangeCountyOiler 5h ago
The same is true for the Cincinnati Bengals
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u/WhiteMamba1 Spotify 3h ago
Neither did the Lions
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u/Amish_guy_with_WiFi 2h ago
Yeah seems to be a team level decision. He should be calling out whichever dumb ass teams did that shit
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u/Allhailthepugofdoom 3h ago
For starters, we have the best owner in the game. Also, because really, everyone here is up in arms for nothing. Some owners did have a moment of silence, but not all and it was not mandatory.
I don't want to come off like I'm defending the league because they don't deserve it, but they announced BB. Afterward, the right lost their shit and even threatened to have ICE at the SB. The league has also announced Brandi Carlisle, Charlie Puth and Green Day. All of whom are liberal leaning to various degrees.
I don't know what the purpose for the lineup was, and Im not insisting they are deliberately shunning anyone, but they are definitely not shoving right wing ideals down our throats.
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u/Commercial-Ladder966 5h ago
Are they seriously having a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk? lol
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u/xtrobot 5h ago
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u/Stand_On_It 4h ago
Doesn’t this imply it was the individual franchises doing it instead of the NFL?
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u/SaltyLonghorn 4h ago
If a player can't put a personal msg on their face black or cleats then a bigot owner shouldn't be able to do the same shit on a grander scale.
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u/xtrobot 4h ago
Only if you don't read the article?
The NFL initiated a moment of silence for conservative commentator Charlie Kirk before the Packers-Commanders game on Sept. 11.
The league left it up to individual home teams to decide whether to hold similar tributes.
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u/GregLouganus 4h ago
the Packers-Commanders game on Sept. 11.
There's gotta be something more deserving of a moment of silence on that day...
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u/tarekd19 3h ago
that certainly was part of what made it so bogus.
IIRC, it wasn't even televised so it seemed extra pointless. (i could have turned the game on late and missed it though)
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u/p0larity_bear 1h ago
I don't know about that, it seems like one of those things people would never forget
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u/UnusualHound 4h ago
The NFL has the authority to fine teams who do things like this. They fine players all the time for political messages on their cleats or helmets or eye black.
NFL teams were not fined for this.
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u/PassiveMenis88M 3h ago
The NFL forced the teams playing the Thursday night game to have a moment of silence for him. The Sunday and Monday games had the option.
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u/ScarletJew72 5h ago
A lot of sports teams did so soon after his death. It's embarassing how quickly he was turned into a martyr.
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u/constructiveblues 5h ago
HE WAS A FUCKING PODCASTER! I hate this shit so much.
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u/Fuck_Mark_Robinson 5h ago edited 4h ago
A virulently racist podcaster, even.
Fucking Temu Father Coughlin
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u/Fine-Slip-9437 5h ago
He was actually left leaning at the end.
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u/Lethik 4h ago
Like 99% of people had no idea who he was before he died lol
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u/WhoStoleMyBicycle 4h ago
I feel like half of the world tried gaslighting me into thinking he was a great man
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u/goodolarchie 3h ago
I honestly thought that photo / representation of his face was doctored to make his features look tiny on a giant head (mostly from the /r/toiletpaperusa threads that hit the front page). I didn't know he actually looked like that until he died.
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u/Optimal_Clock6846 5h ago
I know I felt like a weirdo for knowing who he was and suddenly my mom knows his name.
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u/chopkins92 4h ago
Worse: He worked directly with the Trump administration to spread Republican propaganda to young adults.
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u/AsinineArchon 3h ago
Nah, he was just a monster. Podcaster is too generous
An evil stain disappeared from the earth that day
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u/slizzbizness 5h ago
I mean, that's the whole reason the GOP had him assassinated. He's worth way more to them as a martyr than he would have been just shouting down college students for the rest of his stupid life
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u/JAGChem82 5h ago
Nah, he was the one guy holding the different factions of MAGA together. They freaked out over his killing because it was one of them who did it as opposed to a woke Antifa Black Mexican Muslim Indigenous transgender woman.
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u/slizzbizness 5h ago
Well at least his sleep-paralysis-demon of a wife is still here to carry the torch
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u/remarkablewhitebored 4h ago
And he is pretty much forgotten at this point... Attention span are now measured in nanoseconds
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u/Nice-Analysis8044 3h ago
MAGA thought Charlie Kirk would be their Horst Wessel, but he turned out to actually be their Harambe.
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u/CaribouHoe 4h ago
I almost forgot about Charlie Kirk. We've moved on, almost as fast as his wife did
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u/cogginsmatt 1h ago
I was at a Yankee game the day of the shooting and it was so gross. And Trump was there the next day also getting honored. Awful franchise.
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u/0w1 5h ago
But don't you dare say black lives matter. That's too political for football!
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u/SirBogart 5h ago
Tbf they did embrace BLM to a somewhat surprising degree for years. Some stadiums still have “end racism” painted on the field. For several years after 2020, all 30 stadiums were required to have the statement in their end zones
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u/Bored_Amalgamation 3h ago
Because a majority of NFL players are black, and a few of them had been assaulted by police.
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u/Timely_Amount_3908 1h ago
It's nuts that "end racism" is viewed as a political message
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u/vivikush 5h ago
You may have missed it but during 2020-2022 ish, they had Black Lives Matter/ end racism on all the helmets and in the endzone. Kapernick really got scapegoated in hindsight.
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u/Skatedivona 5h ago
Didn’t even need to look back at it to realize it was wrong. They’re fine with political preaching, so long as it’s what they personally feel.
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u/insanetwit 5h ago
Or take a knee during the anthem...
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u/iglidante iglidante 5h ago
I still don't understand why that pissed off ANYONE. It's literally the respectful way to make a statement.
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u/RollTh3Maps 5h ago
If they don't like the message, and they know that disagreeing with the message itself will sound bad, then they'll find a way to be outraged by the method of delivery and/or the messenger. Standard bad-faith argument tactics.
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u/Future-Turtle 5h ago
Black man had the audacity to say that MLK didn't single-handedly, permanently end racism in America.
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u/Killakaronic 5h ago
It’s because patriotism has aligned with religion to them. In that it means whatever they want it to and they can pick and choose parts to apply whenever it fits.
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u/DeadpoolLuvsDeath 5h ago
IIRC Capernick spoke with a Black Veteran whom gave him the idea to kneel?
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u/patsfreak27 4h ago
Yes kaep originally was going to sit on the bench or something else but the vet told him kneeling with the team would be more respectful
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u/StrugglesTheClown 4h ago
Well yes, that would go against the NFLs long held beliefs.
“Black former players are automatically assumed (through a statistical manipulation called ‘race-norming’) to have started with worse cognitive functioning than White former players. As a result, if a Black former player and a White former player receive the exact same raw scores on a battery of tests designed to measure their current cognitive functioning, the Black player is presumed to have suffered less impairment, and he is therefore less likely to qualify for compensation,” their lawsuit contended.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-nfls-racist-race-norming-is-an-afterlife-of-slavery
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u/Zannahrain3 5h ago
Bengals vs. Jaguars: No moment of silence
Lions vs. Bears: No moment of silence
Titans vs. Rams: No moment of silence
Ravens vs. Browns: No moment of silence
1/8th of the NFL didnt hold a moment of silence.
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u/v_cats_at_work 4h ago
Falcons at Vikings had a moment of silence but it was shortly after the school shooting here in Minneapolis, so it was dedicated to the victims of that with no mention of Charlie Kirk.
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u/BellacosePlayer 3h ago
I know at least one of the games that did have a MoS was league mandated (Packers/Commies)
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u/Rex_Vagene 5h ago edited 5h ago
They had one at lambeau field (green bay packers) the day after CKs death.
Edit: corrected. Roger Goodell owns this was his decision, however the clubs did get final say and the pack and commanders didn’t object.
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u/isweartodarwin 5h ago
That was the NFL’s decision, the Packers/Commanders game was the first game after the shooting IIRC. I don’t agree with it, just wanted to provide some context
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u/sirbissel 5h ago
....aren't the Packers a publicly owned non-profit?
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u/Rex_Vagene 5h ago edited 5h ago
Yeah, don’t see how that makes a difference. Roger Goodell was at that game and didn’t have an issue, but is telling bad bunny to leave politics out of the sb halftime show.
Edit: guess Roger Goodell is owning it was his decision to allow the moment of silence. Either way, is a bit hypocritical
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u/MadFerIt 5h ago edited 4h ago
The right is responsible for cancel culture long before they decided to give it that stupid name when it was finally directed towards their bigotry.
They have always been the whiny babies crying over the smallest offence. And now they do it while supporting and defending a p3dophile president.
EDIT: Looks like we have a bunch of those far-right snowflakes in the comments whining about the e being replaced by a 3 in p3dophile as I've had comments shadow removed in the past. Here let's make them even more upset.. P3dophile p3dophile p3dophile p3dophile!
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u/albatroopa 5h ago
The right are the real snowflakes. They're cold, white, and if you get enough of them together, they'll shut down your public education system.
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u/Fuzzy_Move 5h ago
Every accusation is a confession.
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u/TacoOfGod 5h ago
Their stagnant minds are incapable of imagination, which is why everything they project on others is the shit that they actually do.
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u/rhaymenocerous 5h ago
Just going to state this here stop censoring the word "Pedophile" it needs to be said so people feel the extreme nature of the word.
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u/AnyLeadership5150 3h ago
They're also perpetrators of the "fake news" that they whine about all the time.
They're also perpetrators of the "evil takeover of the government" that they've been lying about democrats wanting to do for decades.
Republicans are traitors to their own country. That is now a fact of life.
Traitors elected a child rapist traitor in his effort to attack America.
That's the current republican party.
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u/ahearthatslazy 4h ago
These are the same people who bought all the Beatles records and then steamrolled over them
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u/TeacherRecovering 2h ago
Then group formally know as the Dixie Chicks agree.
All the way back to W's.
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u/Cyrano_Knows 5h ago
As apparently I have to remind my MAGA co-workers, here goes.
Puerto Rican citizens are AMERICAN citizens.
Puerto Rican's are authorized to hold U.S. passports, travel freely between the island and the mainland, and serve in the U.S. military. They just don't get to vote in national elections.
Bad Bunny is an American.
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u/YamahaRyoko 4h ago
They're so stupid. I constantly have to remind them the bill of rights applies to all people within our lands.
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u/Filthiest_Vilein 2h ago
the bill of rights applies to all people within our lands.
My wife is Indian, and we lived over there for a few years. Back in 2019 or 2020, there was a wave of protests across the country. Some foreigners participated, but were served "Leave India" notices. The justification was that, under the Indian Constitution, foreign nationals aren't entitled to the "fundamental right" of free speech.
At the time, I told my wife that would never happen in America--that anybody, even a tourist, could stand outside the White House with a sign saying "Fuck Trump!" or "Fuck Biden!" and that nobody would be able to touch them because they'd still have First Amendment rights.
I'm eating those words every day.
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u/KingMobScene 5h ago
As always Ken is on the right side of history. He reminds me of my uncle. Working man who could not stand trump and his minions and uncle is going to tell you exactly how he feels about all of them
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u/gingimli 5h ago edited 5h ago
I’m not going to credit the NFL with actually caring about anything that’s going on in politics, but I still think the halftime show is a great sign that things are moving in the right direction. Corporations will do literally anything to appeal to whatever mindset is currently popular, and I think the halftime show signals that corporations are recognizing that being progressive is the place to be right now. The fact that the NFL doesn’t care about alienating the right is an indication that the right is losing popularity and social status.
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u/Future-Turtle 5h ago
I think its less about that and more that Goodell and the league are looking to expand internationally and Bad Bunny furthers that goal way more than Brooks and Dunn or whoever
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u/disastrousanddull 5h ago
I think it’s a fair bit of courting controversy because it gets them attention. Green Day is what makes it more obvious on that front and now people are talking about who opens the Super Bowl. That being said, the soulless company has read the room and decided it’s worth whatever MAGA tantrum will happen, which says something.
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u/Vsx 4h ago
MAGA simply doesn't do anything. Their whining is irrelevant. They don't protest. They don't boycott. They're going to keep watching football and being mad just like they have been for the last ten years.
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u/disastrousanddull 3h ago
Well, they will do an insurrection and occasionally shoot people. But, yes, I think the NFL knows they won’t actually get boycotted in a significant way so they’re courting the people who hate MAGA while knowing MAGA will stay barring a few who actually follow through. Trump might be pissed but he can be distracted by something shiny.
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u/cardbross 4h ago
It's exactly this. The conservatives screaming about Bad Bunny aren't going to stop watching the NFL over it, but the NFL might get some new viewers in Mexico or Central/South America from it.
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u/shantm79 5h ago
Corporations will do literally anything to appeal to whatever mindset is currently popular, and I think the halftime show signals that corporations are recognizing that being progressive is the place to be right now.
Easy with the praise. One of the most popular artists in the world is doing the show, NFL didn't chose him so they could be viewed as "progressive".
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u/_gloriousdead222 4h ago
Yeah doesn’t make sense lol companies have been pandering for a long time. If anything it’s the opposite
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u/GamingTrend 5h ago
Yeah....I'm shouting "Fuck you, gurgles" at any "moment of silence" for Charlie Kirk.
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u/Weekly-Landscape-543 5h ago
So proud of this band. So glad I’ve been a fan for years and they have NOT let me down.
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u/Da_Dush_818 5h ago
THANK YOU! I thought I was going crazy for a moment, like "these assholes for real?"
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u/Well-inthatcase 5h ago
They love to be pissy little toddlers but without the part where they get called out on the shitty behavior and actually punished for it. Then they love to be the victim.
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u/kombatunit 5h ago
I stopped watching nfl games when they had their moment of silence for that turd. Some teams didn't, which I applaud but the local team and I'm done with them.
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u/PirateSi87 5h ago
Who’s Charlie Kirk? Was he meant to be someone important?
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u/ShredGuru 5h ago
He was a B-list YouTuber who sold superstition and division.
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u/Popwaffle 5h ago
B-list is outrageously generous.
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u/ShredGuru 4h ago
I'm trying to be charitable to the deceased. I said much worse things about him when he was still alive.
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u/QueenRotidder 5h ago
careful, someone might try to doxx you for not showing an adequate display of grief.
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u/akapusin3 5h ago
I didn't think the NFL mandated teams hold a moment of silence, but teams made their own decisions
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u/Garconanokin 5h ago
They didn’t mandate it, and it was a league decision from the NFL. And just like they didn’t mandate that there was a moment of silence for the two Democratic lawmakers who were shot to death the month before. Of course there wasn’t that moment of silence for them, because that never came up for the NFL.
Just a meaningless disparity, right!?
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u/bryonlhobbs 5h ago
I’m so tired of MAGA complaining about Bad Bunny. The NFL made a marketing decision to select him for the halftime show because he is a global superstar and they’re trying to build their brand internationally. MAGA really thinks their opinions are the only ones that matter and it’s disgusting the level of narcissism it takes to truly believe that.
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u/agreenshade 5h ago
It's amazing how they're all talking about Bad Bunny having anything political at halftime yet Green Day is going to come in blasting full revolution for the opener.
I know some of it is more people are likely going to see the halftime show, but some of it is the right doesn't realize how antithetical they've become to music from artists like Green Day and Rage. Then there's the "why are the lyrics in Spanish" ignorance which equates to racism.
American Idiot is a true and valid message for all this.
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u/AlfridAlfrad 5h ago
But the NFL hired bad bunny
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u/No-Cantaloupe-6535 5h ago
and Commissioner Goodell has made repeated statements backing him since
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u/scott_norwood 5h ago
The same NFL that’s a literal propaganda machine for the US military??
I’m shocked.
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u/TooMuchTime2think 5h ago
If there were to be a moment of silence for that fallen soul, it would be a great time to either, A) Take a piss or B) Start the old, "Fuck ICE" chant.
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u/Successful-Coyote99 4h ago
TBF the moment of silence was likely a team ownership standpoint rather than an NFL requirement.
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u/UnderwaterAlienBar 4h ago
The Turning Point halftime show is just a safe space for conservatives
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u/SayNoToFirefighters 4h ago
"Dropkick Murphys singer Ken Casey questions why NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suggested Bad Bunny not bring any political discourse to his Super Bowl halftime performance this Sunday, when the same league held moments of silence for slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk earlier this season."
Roger Goodell has always been seen as a piece of shit within the Football world.
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u/Worth-Jicama3936 3h ago
Can someone tell me exactly what the NFL is doing to deserve criticism here? They are the ones having him play, they aren’t shying away from it. Now a lot of their fan base probably deserves it for being racist asshats, but what did the NFL itself do?
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 6h ago
Ken Casey: