The pop-punk band Green Day performed a relatively uncontroversial medley of its hits at the opening ceremony before Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, California, on Sunday.

But two days before that performance, during another Super Bowl weekend event, Green Day’s frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, took to the microphone to call on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to quit their jobs.

“This goes out to all the ICE agents out, wherever you are,” Armstrong said from the stage of the FanDuel Party in San Francisco on Friday, before using expletives while telling agents to quit their jobs.

Sooner or later, he added, referring to top administration officials, “Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Donald Trump, they’re going to drop you like” a bad habit, again punctuating his remarks with expletives. “Come on this side of the line.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday.

Green Day has long been a sharp critic of President Donald Trump and his policies.

In 2016, the band led a “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA” chant while performing at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles. During concerts, Armstrong and bandmates have frequently changed the lyrics of their hit song “American Idiot” from “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda.” In 2023, the band released the protest song “The American Dream is Killing Me.”

Last month, Trump bashed Green Day as a musical selection for the Super Bowl’s festivities. “I’m anti-them,” he told The New York Post. “I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible.” (The president has likewise disparaged Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican artist who will headline the Super Bowl’s halftime show. He said recently that he would not attend the game, saying of Bad Bunny’s selection, “All it does is sow hatred.”)

Green Day is hardly the only act to use a Super Bowl appearance to make a political statement. Brandi Carlile, the gay singer-songwriter who performed “America the Beautiful” before the game, told Variety on Saturday that queer representation mattered in the current political moment.

“The through line to being queer and being a representative of a marginalized community, and being put on the largest stage in America to acknowledge the fraught and tender hope that this country is based on,” she said, “it’s something you don’t say no to. You do it.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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Play-by-play of the 2026 Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks:

FIRST QUARTER

NE wins the coin toss and elects to defer, SEA elects to receive.

A.Borregales kicks 65 yards from NE 35 to end zone, Touchback to the SEA 35.

Seattle Seahawks

1st & 10 at SEA 35

15:00 1st — K.Walker left end pushed ob at SEA 45 for 10 yards (C.Davis).

1st & 10 at SEA 45

14:29 1st — K.Walker right tackle to SEA 45 for no gain (C.Barmore).

2nd & 10 at SEA 45

13:50 1st Shotgun — S.Darnold pass short left to A.Barner to NE 40 for 15 yards (C.Woodson).

1st & 10 at NE 40

13:25 1st No Huddle — S.Darnold pass deep left to C.Kupp pushed ob at NE 17 for 23 yards (M.Jones).

1st & 10 at NE 17

12:58 1st No Huddle, Shotgun — S.Darnold pass incomplete deep left.

2nd & 10 at NE 17

12:51 1st — K.Walker right tackle to NE 14 for 3 yards (A.Jennings; R.Spillane).

3rd & 7 at NE 14

12:06 1st Shotgun — S.Darnold pass incomplete short left to R.Shaheed.

4th & 7 at NE 14

12:02 1st — J.Myers 33 yard field goal is GOOD, Center-C.Stoll, Holder-M.Dickson.

Seattle 3, New England 0

Kickoff from J.Myers kicks 65 yards from SEA 35 to NE 0. D.Johnson to NE 28 for 28 yards (D.Young).

New England Patriots

1st & 10 at NE 28

11:52 1st — R.Stevenson up the middle to NE 34 for 6 yards (E.Jones).

2nd & 4 at NE 34

11:20 1st — R.Stevenson up the middle to NE 36 for 2 yards (E.Jones).

3rd & 2 at NE 36

10:40 1st Shotgun — D.Maye pass short left to R.Stevenson ran ob at NE 43 for 7 yards (D.Thomas).

1st & 10 at NE 43

10:04 1st — D.Maye pass short left to D.Douglas to SEA 49 for 8 yards (E.Jones).

2nd & 2 at SEA 49

09:27 1st — R.Stevenson right tackle to SEA 45 for 4 yards (C.Bryant).

1st & 10 at SEA 45

08:51 1st Shotgun — D.Maye sacked at NE 45 for -10 yards (D.Hall).

2nd & 20 at NE 45

08:09 1st Shotgun — D.Maye scrambles right end to SEA 44 for 11 yards (N.Emmanwori).

3rd & 9 at SEA 44

07:23 1st Shotgun — D.Maye pass incomplete deep right (D.Witherspoon).

4th & 9 at SEA 44

07:18 1st — B.Baringer punts 34 yards to SEA 10, Center-J.Ashby, fair catch by R.Shaheed.

4th & 9 at SEA 44

07:18 1st — B.Baringer punts 34 yards to SEA 10, Center-J.Ashby, fair catch by R.Shaheed.

Seattle Seahawks

1st & 10 at SEA 10

07:11 1st Shotgun — S.Darnold pass incomplete short left to J.Smith-Njigba (A.Jennings).

2nd & 10 at SEA 10

07:06 1st Shotgun — S.Darnold pass short left to J.Smith-Njigba to SEA 14 for 4 yards (C.Davis).

3rd & 6 at SEA 14

06:22 1st Shotgun — S.Darnold pass incomplete deep left to J.Smith-Njigba (J.Hawkins).

4th & 6 at SEA 14

06:15 1st — M.Dickson punts 50 yards to NE 36, Center-C.Stoll, fair catch by M.Jones.

New England Patriots

1st & 10 at NE 36

06:07 1st — T.Munford reported in as eligible. D.Maye pass deep middle to K.Boutte to SEA 43 for 21 yards (J.Love).

1st & 10 at SEA 43

05:33 1st Shotgun — T.Henderson up the middle to SEA 47 for -3 yards (E.Jones).

2nd & 13 at SEA 46

04:53 1st Shotgun — D.Maye pass short left to T.Henderson to SEA 48 for -2 yards (J.Jobe).

3rd & 15 at SEA 48

04:15 1st Shotgun — D.Maye sacked at NE 42 for -10 yards (D.Witherspoon).

4th & 25 at NE 42

03:38 1st — B.Baringer punts 52 yards to SEA 6, Center-J.Ashby. R.Shaheed to SEA 13 for 7 yards (D.Pettus).

Seattle Seahawks

1st & 10 at SEA 13

03:29 1st — K.Walker right tackle to SEA 15 for 2 yards (C.Durden; J.Gibbens).

2nd & 8 at SEA 15

02:51 1st — K.Walker left end to SEA 16 for 1 yard (C.Barmore).

3rd & 7 at SEA 16

02:06 1st Shotgun — S.Darnold pass short right to A.Barner to SEA 28 for 12 yards (M.Jones).

1st & 10 at SEA 28

01:25 1st — R.Shaheed left end to SEA 23 for -5 yards (C.Woodson).

2nd & 15 at SEA 23

00:40 1st Shotgun — S.Darnold pass incomplete short left to J.Smith-Njigba (A.Jennings).

3rd & 15 at SEA 23

00:37 1st Shotgun — S.Darnold pass incomplete deep left to J.Smith-Njigba.

4th & 15 at SEA 23

00:32 1st — M.Dickson punts 45 yards to NE 32, Center-C.Stoll. M.Jones to NE 32 for no gain (D.Thomas).

New England Patriots

1st & 10 at NE 32

00:19 1st — R.Stevenson right tackle to NE 37 for 5 yards (J.Reed).

END QUARTER

Seattle 3, New England 0

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Duluth’s Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin started Sunday by just getting back into the win column, then finished it by getting into the playoffs at the 2026 Winter Games in Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy.

The United States’ mixed doubles curling team is guaranteed to play for a medal, something Americans weren’t able to do in two previous Olympics appearances, after defeating Estonia 5-3 and Sweden 8-7.

The match with Estonia’s Marie Kaldvee and Harri Lill was the lowest-scoring of the tournament thus far, and the first in Olympic mixed doubles since 2018 in which neither team scored more than one point in a single end.

The teams alternated forcing the other to one point over the first six ends. Thiesse’s last rock of the sixth end deflected off an Estonian guard, forcing them to settle for one when they were going for three.

The back-and-forth finally changed in the seventh when Lill’s last rock had too much weight and not enough curl, missing the target and giving the Americans a steal of one. That gave Team USA a one-point lead, but not the last rock in the climactic eighth end. With the game in Kaldvee’s hands again, she again missed her target, only grazing the American rock in the scoring area and sealing the result.

As tight as the afternoon match was, Team USA’s showdown with the Swedish sibling team of Isabella and Rasmus Wrana was much more freewheeling.

Each side scored three in their first attempt with the hammer. After holding the Swedes to a single point in the third end, Thiesse was on target, pushing a Swedish stone out of the way and scoring another three for a 6-4 US lead at the halfway point. The Americans then added on to their lead by stealing a point in end five.

Sweden tied it up with two in the sixth end and a steal of one in the seventh but the Americans won it in the eighth. Dropkin had a highlight-reel shot in which he ejected all three Swedish stones from the rings, leaving two in place. After the Swedes failed to push those rocks out of scoring position, they conceded before Thiesse even had to throw the last rock of the game.

The Americans (6-2) conclude round-robin play on Monday morning (3:05 a.m. CST) against host and defending champion Italy, with both teams knowing they’re in the semis. If the Italians win, they’ll trigger another meeting in the semifinals (11:05 a.m. CST). If the Americans win, Italy will drop to fourth and the US will play Sweden in the semifinals.

The losing semifinalists will play Tuesday morning at 7:05 a.m. CST for the bronze medal, with the mixed-doubles gold-medal game taking place at 11:05 a.m. Tuesday.

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By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. and ANDREW DALTON

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Stars have been front-and-center at Super Bowl 60, from Chris Pratt and Jon Bon Jovi introducing the teams to a series of soaring pre-game performances.

Highlights from Levi’s Stadium include Blue Ivy Carter leaping in an end zone before the game and Green Day delivering a tribute to the NFL championship game’s 60th anniversary.

Brandi Carlile kept it sincere and simple for “America, the Beautiful,” Charlie Puth made “The Star-Spangled Banner” big and soulful and Coco Jones brought a bit of the elements of both to “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”

Bad Bunny’s upcoming halftime performance is a highly anticipated moment to come.

Green Day brings Bay rock — and an f-bomb — to an MVP parade

San Francisco Bay Area punk-pop vets Green Day took the pre-game stage and performed a snippet of their song “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” to a parade of former Super Bowl MVPs.

Local heroes Steve Young, Joe Montana and Jerry Rice were among those who walked out during the song meant to celebrate 60 years of Super Bowls.

Billie Joe Armstong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool then blasted into the harder and less sentimental stuff, including “Holiday,” “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and “American Idiot.”

Armstrong did not censor the f-word in the lyrics of “American Idiot.” The word was muted on the NBC telecast but drew loud cheers inside the stadium.

Carlile and Puth deliver patriotic moments ahead of kickoff

Singer-songwriter Charlie Puth delivered a sweeping and soulful rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

The 34-year-old from New Jersey stood at a Rhodes electric piano as he sang and was backed by a choir and horn section.

His delivery felt slow and deliberate but it took him 1 minute, 56 seconds to sing, which is slightly faster than average for a Super Bowl anthem.

Before that, Brandi Carlile gave an earnest acoustic rendition of “America, the Beautiful.”

The 44-year-old folk and country rocker wore a black suit and was backed by a violin and cello on the field at Levi Stadium.

The Grammy winner told the AP this week that she’d use no prerecorded tracks, saying “the people deserve to have you live.”

After the song Carlile, who is from Ravensdale, Washington, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) outside Seattle said she was “relieved, and so excited for the Seahawks baby let’s go!”

Coco Jones opens Super Bowl 60 performances with ‘Lift Every Voice’

Coco Jones, a 28-year-old singer-songwriter and actor from Columbia, South Carolina wore a white gown and was backed by a string octet as she performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a song that has become known as the unofficial Black national anthem.

“I feel really amazing, I hope that I did my ancestors proud, and I hope that I inspired the nation to come together,” Jones told the AP just after the song.

She FaceTimed with her mom on the sideline ater the performance while her fiance, Cleveland Cavaliers player Donovan Mitchell, held the phone.

Written by James Weldon Johnson, the song has been performed at the Super Bowl each year since 2021, the first Super Bowl after the protests surrounding the killing of George Floyd, when Black Lives Matter sentiment, and the song, became especially prominent.

Celebrities spotted at Super Bowl 60

Chris Pratt rocked a Seahawks jersey while attending the Super Bowl and gave a rousing introduction to the team before they ran out onto the field.

On the opposite side of the field, Jon Bon Jovi delivered the Patriots’ intro.

Stars including Travis Scott and Jay-Z were on the sidelines ahead of the game. Jay-Z’s daugther, Blue Ivy Carter, leaped in one of the end zones to take a photo.

Among those sitting in suites watching the game were Justin Bieber, Hailey Bieber and Adam Sandler.

Bad Bunny awaits his big moment

Bad Bunny will look to distill a 10-year career and a heavy load of cultural expectations into a 13-minute halftime show when he takes the stage at halftime.

The 31-year-old has been rising to every moment in a monumental year. A week ago he won the Grammy for album of the year for “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” a love letter to his native Puerto Rico that was the most streamed release of 2025.

Now, he takes on a performance that by its very existence is a landmark for Latino culture.

He said this week that fans didn’t need to learn Spanish to enjoy his set — but they should be prepared to dance.

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Dalton reported from Los Angeles.

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