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U2 to Headline Inaugural NFL Thanksgiving Eve Game Halftime Show

As the Irish band celebrates 50 years, and a new album, they'll light up SoFi Stadium at a game opposing the Green Bay Packers and the Los Angeles Rams.

U2 to Headline Inaugural NFL Thanksgiving Eve Game Halftime Show
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Billy Eff
By Billy EffOct 20, 2026
Billy Eff

Billy Eff is the Content Director for Rolling Stone Canada. An award-winning journalist and columnist, he has previously contributed to outlets including VICE and Urbania. A passionate advocate for underground music and a musician himself, he has conducted several hundred interviews with artists and industry professionals across a wide range of styles and genres over the past 15 years. He is based in Montréal, Québec.

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U2 will headline the halftime show of the NFL’s first-ever Thanksgiving Eve game on November 25, when the Green Bay Packers visit the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The performance will stream globally on Netflix, with kickoff scheduled for 8 p.m. ET, according to the league's press release.

U2’s appearance will come less than two weeks after the November 13 release of Carnaval De Luz, the band’s 16th studio album and first collection of new material in nine years. The band has recently released “The Greatest Show on Earth,” a song from the upcoming album that lends its name to U2’s newly announced world tour.

The tour will begin in February 2027 with dates in Mexico City, São Paulo and Buenos Aires. It will be the band’s first world tour since before the COVID-19 pandemic and will mark drummer Larry Mullen Jr.’s return to the road, following his absence from the group’s 2023-2024 Las Vegas Sphere residency.

The NFL performance also marks U2’s return to the league’s halftime stage nearly 25 years after its appearance at Super Bowl XXXVI in February 2002. The upcoming show will feature special guests, whose identities have not yet been announced, as the band celebrates 50 years since forming in Dublin in 1976.

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