Here’s What Green Day Played At The 2026 Super Bowl Kickoff

The 2026 Super Bowl weekend officially kicked off with a heavy dose of Bay Area punk energy, as Green Day headlined the NFL’s Super Bowl Kickoff performance.

With the league historically cautious about controversy, there was plenty of curiosity around what Green Day would actually be allowed to play, the band’s catalogue is packed with politically charged material, and Billie Joe Armstrong has never been known for biting his tongue. This time, though, the NFL got a relatively safe but unmistakably Green Day set (per Loudwire).

The performance opened with ‘Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)’, performed in part alongside an orchestra as the NFL introduced past Super Bowl MVPs, cameras then cut to the band as they shifted gears into a run of hits, launching into ‘Holiday’ before rolling straight through ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ and ‘American Idiot’ as part of a tightly packed medley.

Rather than making a statement, the band wrapped things up with a simple nod to home turf, shouting out, “Welcome to the Bay.”

Green Day – Super Bowl Kickoff Setlist

The short set marked Green Day’s first official Super Bowl related performance, keeping things familiar, crowd friendly, and free of lyrical detours.

• ‘Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)’ (partial, with orchestra)
• ‘Holiday’ / ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ / ‘American Idiot’ (partial medley)

While the kickoff appearance stayed clean, Armstrong saved his sharper commentary for another Super Bowl weekend event, on Friday (February 6), Green Day played a separate show at Pier 29 in San Francisco, where Armstrong directly addressed ICE agents in the crowd.

“Quit your shtty ass job,” he said. “Quit that shtty job you have because when this is over and it will be over at some point in time, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, J.D. Vance, Donald Trump, they’re gonna drop you like a bad f***ing habit.”

“Come on this side of the line,” he added.

That Pier 29 show featured a full 19 song set, opening with ‘American Idiot’ and closing on ‘Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)’, with Armstrong also tweaking lyrics to reference MAGA and Jeffrey Epstein.

Green Day weren’t the only act involved in the kickoff festivities either. Teddy Swims opened the event before teams took the field, setting the stage for the Bay Area icons to close out the pre-game celebrations.

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