{"id":4588,"date":"2026-01-19T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/green-day-to-do-super-bowl-lx-pregame-performance-right-in-our-backyard\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T05:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:00:44","slug":"green-day-to-do-super-bowl-lx-pregame-performance-right-in-our-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/green-day-to-do-super-bowl-lx-pregame-performance-right-in-our-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Day to do Super Bowl LX pregame performance: \u2018Right in our backyard!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rock band Green Day will perform during the pregame show for Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8 at Levi\u2019s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., the NFL announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are super hyped to open Super Bowl 60 right in our backyard!\u201d lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong said in a league news release. \u201cWe are honored to welcome the MVPs who\u2019ve shaped the game and open the night for fans all over the world. Let\u2019s have fun! Let\u2019s get loud!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green Day, which formed in Berkeley, Calif., in 1986 \u2014 not far from Levi\u2019s Stadium \u2014 has sold 75 million records worldwide and has 20 billion cumulative streams. The group has won five Grammy Awards and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL said Green Day will help welcome several generations of Super Bowl MVPs from the past 59 title games onto the field to honor the 60th edition of the NFL championship game. The opening ceremony will air live at 6 p.m. (ET) on NBC, Telemundo, Peacock and Universo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCelebrating 60 years of Super Bowl history with Green Day as a hometown band, while honoring the NFL legends who\u2019ve helped define this sport, is an incredibly powerful way to kick off Super Bowl LX,\u201d the NFL\u2019s senior director of event and game presentation, Tim Tubito, said in the news release.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Coming soon on Super Bowl Sunday: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GreenDay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@GreenDay<\/a> to open the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SBLX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SBLX<\/a> opening ceremony, LIVE from Levi&#8217;s Stadium! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OdcPXhjQ1D\">pic.twitter.com\/OdcPXhjQ1D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NFL (@NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\/status\/2013057550003110254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After Green Day performs, several other acts will take the stage, including Charlie Puth, Brandi Carlile and Coco Jones. Puth will perform the national anthem, Carlile will sing \u201cAmerica the Beautiful\u201d and Jones will deliver \u201cLift Every Voice and Sing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump criticized the NFL when it announced Bad Bunny \u2014 who has\u00a0used his platform to speak out against Trump\u2019s immigration policies \u2014 would be its Super Bowl halftime performer, calling it a bad choice. Armstrong, Green Day\u2019s frontman, has been a strong critic of Trump for years, during both of his administrations. During Green Day\u2019s performance at the American Music Awards in 2016, he chanted, \u201cNo Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA!\u201d At the Download Festival last year, Armstrong ripped Trump again and said the US was \u201cslipping into fascism.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock band Green Day will perform during the pregame show for Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8 at Levi\u2019s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., the NFL announced Sunday. \u201cWe are super hyped to open Super Bowl 60 right in our backyard!\u201d lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong said in a league news release. \u201cWe are honored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-transfers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2163793983-e1768790050533.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}