Brett Favre blasts NFL for no longer appealing to 'true' fans: 'There's been a slight shift'

Brett Favre believes determination has been a alteration successful the NFL's engagement strategy.

The Pro Football Hall of Famer discussed the contented during an quality connected Tomi Lahren's OutKick amusement earlier this week, successful which Lahren said she felt the NFL changed its attack to the mode it appeals to fans "somewhere astir Colin Kaepernick."

It was a sentiment that Favre agreed with.

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Green Bay Packers backmost (4) Brett Favre warms up earlier playing against the Detroit Lions astatine Ford Field. (Tom Szczerbowski/USA TODAY Sports)

"I deliberation determination astir apt is immoderate information to that. Why that has changed, I truly don't know," Favre said. "Because I deliberation your wide shot assemblage is radical similar you and I. Maybe loves football, oregon possibly is simply a casual, fair-weather fan, but it is the biggest amusement successful town. So you ticker it, you know, you ticker the halftime amusement and who sang the nationalist anthem. You know, that's been that mode for a agelong time.

"But you're right, you know, successful the past possibly 10 years, possibly a small longer, there's been a flimsy shift. For immoderate reason, I person nary idea, due to the fact that you privation to entreaty to your existent fans. And it doesn't look similar that is the lawsuit anymore."

Green Bay Packers backmost (4) Brett Favre is interviewed aft defeating the Detroit Lions. (Tom Szczerbowski/USA TODAY Sports )

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Conservative fans were turned disconnected by the determination to person Bad Bunny execute during the Super Bowl halftime amusement — helium was mostly criticized for having astir his full show successful Spanish.

President Donald Trump called it "one of the worst" halftime shows of each time.

"This ‘Show’ is conscionable a ‘slap successful the face’ to our Country, which is mounting caller standards and records each azygous time — including the Best Stock Market and 401(k)s successful History! There is thing inspirational astir this messiness of a Halftime Show and watch, it volition get large reviews from the Fake News Media, due to the fact that they haven’t got a hint of what is going connected successful the REAL WORLD," Trump wrote connected Truth Social soon aft the show.

Bad Bunny performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl LX shot crippled betwixt the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks astatine Levi’s Stadium successful Santa Clara, California, connected Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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The amusement was the 4th most-watched of each time, but NFL ratings proceed to skyrocket. NFL games accounted for 92 of the apical 100 most-watched telecasts passim 2025.

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