Overview
- The Bay Area trio opened the 60th‑anniversary pregame at Levi's Stadium with an instrumental of 'Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)' into 'Holiday,' 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' and 'American Idiot.'
- Producers trimmed politically charged segments, dropping the 'Holiday' bridge and the second verse of 'American Idiot' where the band often inserts anti‑Trump lines.
- NBC and Peacock muted profanity during 'American Idiot,' garbling the 'subliminal mind‑f*** America' lyric.
- Two days earlier at a Spotify/FanDuel event in San Francisco, Billie Joe Armstrong urged ICE agents to quit and criticized Trump and allied figures by name.
- UK broadcaster Channel 5 drew complaints from viewers after its coverage failed to show Green Day's performance.