ESPN.com · Mar 9, 2025
FIFA can have a World Cup halftime show... within 15 minutes
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It was all so predictable, even more so than Kendrick Lamar -- who, you know, actually won a Pulitzer Prize for his use of words -- winning the beef with Drake. It was predictable that FIFA would want to hype up a 2026 World Cup final in the United States with a Super Bowl-style musical guest and halftime show. Predictable too that purists and purists would rise up against it, moaning about the commercialization of the sport, FIFA's greed and being generally curmudgeonly because the game -- nay, the occasion -- they grew up with isn't what it used to be.