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From left, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg perform Feb. 13 during the halftime show during the NFL Super Bowl 56 football game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Los Angeles Rams in Inglewood, Calif.
Question: Who was responsible for the halftime entertainment during the Super Bowl? It was awful. Children and adults shouldn’t be subjected to this during a prime-time event. NBC should be admonished for allowing it.
Answer: Although you didn’t like the halftime show, many people did enjoy it.
The NFL and its commissioner, Roger Goodell, were responsible for the halftime show. NBC broadcast the Super Bowl, but didn’t have anything to do with what was presented during halftime, according to Michelle Butt, the president and general manager of WXII-Channel 12, the local NBC affiliate.
In 2019 Goodell signed a multi-year agreement with rapper Jay-Z, the founder of Roc Nation, an entertainment and talent company, to produce the halftime shows during the Super Bowl.
The first show Roc Nation produced was the 2020 game. The entertainers that year were Shakira and Jennifer Lopez with guests Bad Bunny and J Balvin.
In September 2021, the NFL announced that the halftime entertainers for Super Bowl LVI would be Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar.
According to a Feb. 11 Los Angeles Times article, “In 2019, Jay-Z said in a press release that the NFL had the ‘opportunity to inspire change across the country’ and that the partnership would ‘strengthen the fabric of communities across America.’ NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell added that Jay-Z’s ‘perspective is going to drive us.’”
