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If you’re hoping to watch the All-American Halftime Show on Sunday, you’re going to have options on Broadway in Nashville.

Several bars in downtown Music City have confirmed that they plan to change the channel to show the Turning Point USA alternate halftime show during their Super Bowl watch parties this weekend.

The counterprogramming to the official Super Bowl halftime show, which will feature Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett, was announced back in October in response to the NFL selecting Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny to headline the halftime show at Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, California on February 8.

The global superstar, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has been famously outspoken against President Donald Trump, and even announced that he wouldn’t be touring in the United States due to the president’s immigration policies.

Naturally his selection to headline the Apple Music halftime show led to plenty of backlash from conservative football fans, who believe he was chosen as a middle finger of sorts to President Donald Trump. As a result, TPUSA, the organization founded by the late Charlie Kirk, announced that they would be putting on their own halftime show to run opposite the Bad Bunny performance.

The show, which is billed as “celebrating faith, family and freedom,” will be shown on several television networks as well as streamed live on both the TPUSA and Charlie Kirk Show YouTube channels. But if you happen to be in Nashville and need somewhere that will be changing the channel from Bad Bunny during the halftime show, it sounds like you’re going to have several options.

According to The Tennessean, the Broadway bars owned by Steve Smith will all be showing the Turning Point USA halftime show, including Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, Honky Tonk Central, Rippy’s, The Diner, and of course, Kid Rock’s Big Honky Tonk Rock & Roll Steakhouse.

Smith confirmed that the bars would not be showing Bad Bunny, and they were already making plans to make sure that the All-American Halftime Show is shown during their Super Bowl parties.

In addition to the bars owned by Smith, The Tennessean also reported that Redneck Riviera, the bar owned by John Rich, plans to show the TPUSA halftime show.

Meanwhile, Garth Brooks’ lower Broadway bar, Friends In Low Places, said the bar would show Bad Bunny and would not have the alternate broadcast available.

Earlier today, Kid Rock (whose real name is Robert Ritchie) appeared on Fox News to discuss the halftime show – and even gave an alternative that the NFL could have selected to avoid forcing an alternate show:

“At the end of the day, like people like Taylor Sheridan and Tyler Perry have, they realize there’s a big portion of this country, like it or not, that’s underserved entertainment-wise. We’re just going to go play for our base, you know, people who love America, love football, love Jesus. And it’s pretty much that simple.

Of course, the media and the haters are going to try to detract from it. And I think I would like to get this point across once again when I say I think I speak for Turning Point and all the artists involved that none of us are approaching this with any hate in our hearts at all. It’s just a love for our base and love for music, our country and everything else. …

If the NFL really were all about its stated goals and really, you know, wanted to take care of their fan base, and it seems to me like, OK, why not do things that are really right from those cities, you know, really celebrate the culture of any city they’re in? And, you know, there’s a band that checks every single box from San Francisco. by the name of Metallica.”

I know I’d be all in for a Metallica halftime show.