NFL announces Sting will headline Super Bowl-branded concert amid Bad Bunny controversy
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Via: perrie-halpern • last year • 36 commentsBy: Yahoo (Entertainment Weekly via Yahoo Entertainment)
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The "Every Breath You Take" singer will perform in San Francisco as part of a two-night extravaganza two days before Bad Bunny's halftime show.
Wesley StenzelWed, October 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM UTC2 min readAdd Yahoo on Google
Sting will soon be an Englishman in San Francisco.
The "Every Breath You Take" singer will headline a Super Bowl-branded concert on Feb. 6 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, the NFL's hospitality provider, On Location, announced Tuesday. The concert will take place two days before the Super Bowl kicks off at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Feb. 8.
Sting's set will be part of the broader Super Bowl LX Studio 60 event, described as "a weekend of unforgettable music entertainment at one of San Francisco's most iconic venues" on the On Location website.
Further details about the concert are scarce, though the promoter's website promises "meet and greet opportunities with NFL legends and current players" alike. Additionally, a second night of Studio 60 festivities will occur in the same location the following evening on Feb. 7, though no performers have been announced for night 2. Tickets for Sting's show start at $750 apiece.
The news comes in the wake of unusually intense criticism of the Super Bowl halftime show, which will be headlined by Bad Bunny. The NFL's decision to hire the "DtMF" musician elicited harsh reactions from conservative political figures, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and even President Donald Trump himself.
Despite the controversy, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell defended the decision to hire Bad Bunny last week, opining that he's "confident it's going to be a great show" in February.
"I'm not sure we've ever selected an artist where we didn't have some blowback or criticism," Goodell said. "I think it's going to be exciting and a united moment."
Sting previously performed at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2003, coheadlining the event with Shania Twain and No Doubt. That performance concluded with Sting performing his Police hit "Message in a Bottle" alongside Gwen Stefani and her bandmates.
Sting isn't the only music superstar headlining a major concert in the Bay Area during Super Bowl weekend. Earlier this month, the Bay Area Host Committee — which is not affiliated with the NFL — announced that country star Chris Stapleton will perform at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on Feb. 7, the night before the Super Bowl.
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I thought Sting was killed by Moad'Dib.
Indeed, he was.
Still my favorite version of Dune film so far. Best was the nearly 5 hour version that was only shown on tv in the 1980's. I remember recording it on VHS pausing to clip out all the commercials. Sadly, you can't find that version anywhere nowadays unless it's a bootleg from back then recorded off tv. Even the Directors cut isn't the same.
Can't open your images, but that's okay. Finally, someone who agrees with me that the original Dune movie directed by David Lynch was better than the recent remake. I never saw that TV version.
I liked the original one , too
That's because you appreciate good movies.
I like them all, but none compare to the book(s).
It would be hard to do a movie of Dune that was as good as Frank Herbert's novel. Even David Lynch wasn't satisfied with the job he did with the movie. I've read all the Dune novels written by Herbert father and son and Dune is my favourite Sci-Fi novel.
The tv version has a bunch of stuff that was never included in either the theatre release or the directors cut, they show the making of the water of life, the squeezing of a baby worm and depicts a lot that is just mentioned in the theatre release. It was almost 5 hrs with commercials, 3 hrs 15 min with commercials cut out. And technically, as AI points out, there was no "official David Lynch" tv version...
Personally, I thought it was the best version and doesn't have the Empress quickly narrating everything at the beginning of the film.
Okay, interesting.
Sting isn't an American. Just thought I'd throw that out there
But Bad Bunny is... Hahahaha!
I know! lol
He's an "Englishman in New York".
Is he a resident of NY?
He's an alien, he's a legal alien, he's an Englishman in NY...
The ONLY criticism I've seen about Bad Bunny performing is the left telling the right they are "outraged about Bad Bunny performing". Now this could be because I don't care who is performing or really care about flag football.
While I've seen more of the left telling people how outraged the right is, there are several on the right who have bitched about it. Even Trump came out against it saying the following..
Thirty years or more back, the game itself was so one-sided that you knew well in advance of kickoff which team was going to win. The best reasons to watch the game was the commercials and the halftime entertainment. Things have changed over the past 30 years however, parity has been reached in the NFL so both teams that make it to the big game are more evenly matched and the game is actually fun to watch. Commercial airtime has gotten so expensive (2025 was $8 million for a 30 second spot) that companies cannot spend as much on talent so the quality of the commercials have gone down. And as I said a while back, halftime shows have been declining in quality since Michael Jackson back in the 1993 Superbowl.
I don't care much for the halftime shows anymore, partly because the shows are geared by the NFL to appeal to younger crowds and I'm definitely no longer part of that "young" crowd. The NFL can do what it wants with the show, it's their show after all. I do think a big part of the criticism around this however is being done as part of the partisan theater. They have their side to play and I think that pushing the criticism is part of them trying to remain important.
I never pay attention to the commercials and I never pay attention to the haftime show. Those are times to get a snack, get a beer , talk to my friends and go to the bathroom.
Yep, the commercials and halftime show used to be better than the game itself but that's flipped around. I use commercial time for the same reasons now.
I disagree. IMHO both the commercials and the game have gone to shit.
No, thanks.
LOL!
I saw Sting in concert in Las Cruces 1988. Tickets were nowhere near that price back then. It was three hours of Sting with 2 encores.
Now that's a good concert
I just saw Sting at Jones Beach 2 summers ago. Great concert at a great venue and the tickets were under $200 for great seats.
I saw Sting back in 2007 in Dusseldorf, worst concert ever. Me and my friends left before it was half over
I saw Whitesnake open for Mötley Crüe in El Paso. They were over an hour late opening the venue and even later opening. Rumor had it the bus with Whitesnake's equipment broke down en route. I went to hear them and they sucked. We did get extra drum solo when Mötley's drummer's safety cable broke - he was in some kind of lift that rose over up over the stage and did a barrel roll while he was in his solo. Yeah... fun.
April 19, 1984, Grateful Dead, Philadelphia Convention Center, some drunk underage child vomited on the back of my head and shoulders.
Try washing your hair and clothes in the men's room of a 1930s public bathroom.
Sting toured with the Grateful Dead in the summer of 93. Most people stayed out in the parking lot while Sting played, at one of the shows I went in just to check it out during the last part of his set and there were maybe a thousand people in the stadium. Let's face it the Dead's crowd isn't Sting's crowd. Speaking of Philly I was at the last Dead show at JFK stadium (89 I think) before they condemned it and you wouldn't have wanted to wash your hair in that bathroom all the toilets were backed up and the floors were flooded. There was a little bit of high dry ground just inside the door, so I stood at the edge of the puddle and pissed in it. I saw the Dead at the Spectrum a year or so before that. I always loved going to Philly to see the Dead.
If you're a fan of The Grateful Dead, have you ever watched the movie The Music Never Stopped?
IMDb LINK -> The Music Never Stopped (2011) - IMDb
Bon Jovi Anchorage Alaska...1989
Yes, I did see that movie, I just watched it about four months ago I had never heard of it before then. It was a pretty good movie.
Especially if you might have been a fan of The Grateful Dead.
Thanks for the earworm, Perrie. Ever since I saw this headline, I've had "If I Ever Lose My Faith" playing in my head. Well, the chorus, anyway.
LOL!! The same thing happened to me, but the song was "Seven Days". Sorry about that!
But then again, there are worse things that can happen than a Sting song!
Foosball is run by such pussies...