Rihanna confirms she rejected NFL Super Bowl halftime offer in support of Colin Kaepernick

October 9, 2019

Tim P. Whitby/Getty ImagesRihanna did indeed turn down the NFL’s invitation to perform at halftime of this year’s Super Bowl in solidarity with former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

“I couldn’t dare do that. For what? Who gains from that? Not my people,” she tells the November issue of Vogue. “I just couldn’t be a sellout. I couldn’t be an enabler. There’s things within that organization that I do not agree with at all, and I was not about to go and be of service to them in any way.”

Kaerpernick hasn’t played for the NFL since the 2016 season after he become

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