Congressman Demands Probe Into Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl XL Performance for ‘Explicit’ Content

A firestorm is brewing in Washington over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX Halftime performance. 

On Tuesday, February 10, congressman Andy Ogles described the spectacle as “pure smut” and demanded a formal investigation into the NFL and NBC, claiming both knowingly approved an “indecent broadcast” that aired during the February 8 game.

“American culture will not be mocked or corrupted without consequence,” Ogles wrote on X, insisting that families and children were exposed to “explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air.”

He also argued that the performance’s lyrics — sung largely in Spanish — “glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities” and should have triggered stricter review by the network.

That message, viewed over 1 million times on X, was accompanied by screengrabs of Ogles’ two-page letter to the Committee on Energy and Commerce chairman Brett Guthrie, dated Monday, February 9, in which he called for a congressional inquiry to be opened on the NFL and NBC for offensive acts including “widespread twerking” and more “sexually suggestive choreography.”

In the letter, Ogles continued that it is “highly implausible” that the NFL and NBC lacked advance knowledge of the set, pointing to rehearsals, submitted setlists and the standard seven-second delay.

He’s not alone in his uproar of the performance. In a separate post on X, Florida Congressman Randy Fine also accused the show of breaking federal broadcast rules, arguing Bad Bunny cursed in Spanish, and called the performance “illegal” before urging the FCC to “take dramatic action.”

Still, some fans are scratching their heads over his allegation that Bad Bunny uttered a curse in Spanish while performing his hit, “Safaera” — the lyrics of which Fine shared under his post on X.

“You are right about one narrow thing,” the fan replied on X, “you cannot say the f word on live broadcast TV in its explicit form. That is exactly why it was not said. The screenshots you posted are from studio album lyrics, not what was performed or broadcast during the halftime show.”