{"id":762182,"date":"2026-02-19T10:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/762182\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:50:16","slug":"michael-irvin-bashes-san-francisco-as-super-bowl-lx-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/762182\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Irvin bashes San Francisco as Super Bowl LX host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super Bowl LX received more attention for the city of San Francisco and the Bay Area hosting the game then the actual game did itself.<\/p>\n<p>On the field, the Super Bowl was a bit of a dud. The Seattle Seahawks manhandled the outmatched New England Patriots and waltzed to an easy victory. Most of the headlines around the game featured around Bad Bunny\u2019s halftime show and the city of San Francisco as a host.<\/p>\n<p>The halftime show from Bad Bunny was <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nfl\/bad-bunny-halftime-show-kid-insists-moving-puerto-rico.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">widely appreciated by the millions and millions who watched it<\/a> and didn\u2019t sequester themselves away from the rest of the world in their safe space with Kid Rock\u2019s lip synching.<\/p>\n<p>As for the city of San Francisco? That is still a subject of debate.<\/p>\n<p>Pat McAfee was among those skeptics that had heard all the chatter about what a disaster the city was, but came out of it <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nfl\/pat-mcafee-san-francisco-conservative-media-enjoyed-beautiful.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">singing the praises of the Bay Area<\/a>. Some of the lcoal Boston hosts who made the trip called it a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/radio\/san-francisco-chronicle-boston-host-zombie-apocalypse-patriots-soft.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">zombie apocalypse<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for Michael Irvin, you can definitely put him in the latter category.<\/p>\n<p>The Hall of Famer\u2019s Super Bowl rant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=77cJ0cDLEBw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">happened last week on his YouTube channel<\/a> but began to spread like wildfire on social media this week.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Michael Irvin on the Super Bowl played in Santa Clara:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a horrible Super Bowl. They should never ever, ever, ever bring the Super Bowl back to San Francisco. In all the years of going to a Super Bowl, this was the worst. It was blah in the city. It just wasn\u2019t jumping.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XVwC9dlkfF\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/XVwC9dlkfF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Coach Yac \ud83d\udde3 (@Coach_Yac) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Coach_Yac\/status\/2024150571305848920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a horrible Super Bowl,\u201d Irvin said. \u201cThey should never ever, ever, ever bring the Super Bowl back to San Francisco. I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m sorry. The city, in all the years of going to a Super Bowl, this was the worst. This seems so, like, blah. It was blah in the city. You know what I mean? It just wasn\u2019t jumping like you see a Super Bowl jumping. The people, blah. The buildings out here looks blah. When you go into an event it was like blah. I\u2019m thinking there should be so much money out here because the tech is out here, right? But it all looked so blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I don\u2019t want to dampen anybody\u2019s thoughts about a Super Bowl during a Super Bowl, so I said I was going to wait. But, I couldn\u2019t wait until this moment came to tell you. Damn! I believe this is the worst Super Bowl I have ever gone to. I\u2019m talking about just seeing it and how the city rocks and everything. And then the game started and it followed suit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Irvin pleaded with the residents of San Francisco, asking that they wouldn\u2019t hate him for his take, before he decided to go in on the city even more and saying that the NFL should never hold another Super Bowl in the Bay Area again. At least he said he enjoyed his visits there when he played in the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys. But as a Super Bowl host? Not so much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot bring that Super Bowl back here anymore. Nah. That\u2019s just my thoughts. Literally, you could not go anywhere on the streets. It took forever to get right down the street because traffic was so bad and what they had dropped off. You literally could not get anywhere. God bless \u2019em. God bless \u2019em. But whoever put this whole system together and blocked off the streets, it was the worst. It was the worst. NFL, you cannot come back here again. You cannot have a Super Bowl back here again. NFC Championship game, if they earned it, okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While there was plenty of differing opinions about the city as host, it probably wasn\u2019t helped by the fact that the actual Super Bowl stadium was in Santa Clara, which is 43 miles away from where the media was stationed at Radio Row in San Francisco. The Super Bowl\u2019s Opening Night was the opposite direction at the San Jose Convention Center. Logistically, it must have been a nightmare to get around.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles and Atlanta will host the next two Super Bowls and right now San Francisco isn\u2019t in the rotation. And judging by the polarizing reaction to Super Bowl LX and the new stadiums being built around the NFL, it may be a while before we see it back in the Bay Area again.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Super Bowl LX received more attention for the city of San Francisco and the Bay Area hosting the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,21120,16165],"class_list":{"0":"post-762182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-michael-irvin","10":"tag-super-bowl-lx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116096915145652016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}