BEYONCÉ’S NFL XMAS HALFTIME SPARKS DEBATE 

The NFL has announced that Beyoncé will perform during the Christmas Day halftime show for the Houston Texans vs. Baltimore Ravens game.

While fans of the music icon cel­e­brat­ed the news, the reac­tion from many foot­ball enthu­si­asts has been luke­warm.  

Beyoncé’s glob­al star pow­er is unde­ni­able, but some fans expressed doubts about the choice. “Nah­h­hh, nobody wants this,” com­ment­ed one user on social media. Anoth­er dis­missed the announce­ment with a blunt “Hard pass.”  

The crit­i­cism wasn’t sole­ly about the per­for­mance itself. Some allud­ed to Beyoncé’s past polit­i­cal endorse­ments, ques­tion­ing whether the half­time show might include more than music. One com­menter asked, “Is she singing or mak­ing a speech?” ref­er­enc­ing her pre­vi­ous cam­paign­ing for Kamala Har­ris. 

Despite the mixed recep­tion, the NFL has packed its Christ­mas sched­ule with excite­ment. Ear­li­er in the day, the Kansas City Chiefs face the Pitts­burgh Steel­ers, fol­lowed by the Tex­ans host­ing Lamar Jackson’s Ravens in the evening.  

This hol­i­day line­up comes after Net­flix faced crit­i­cism for tech­ni­cal issues dur­ing the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul fight on Nov. 15. Some fans wor­ry the stream­ing ser­vice might strug­gle with the expect­ed high view­er­ship. “If it’s like the Tyson/Paul num­bers, we won’t even see the game live,” one per­son joked online.  

Whether view­ers tune in for Bey­on­cé, the games, or both, this Christ­mas promis­es plen­ty of entertainment—and per­haps a touch of con­tro­ver­sy.