Flashback: When Isiah Pacheco gave Bad Bunny his own Kansas City Chiefs jersey
For the first time since 2022, the Super Bowl will be played without the Kansas City Chiefs on the field. Who knows where Chiefs players will be on Sunday?
But we bet running back Isiah Pacheco will be watching the halftime show featuring Bad Bunny.
Pacheco is such a fan that he listened to the Grammy winner’s music to prepare for last year’s Super Bowl against the Eagles.
And Pacheco is such a fan that last year during the offseason he traveled to Puerto Rico, where he attended the first shows in Bad Bunny’s first concert residency, “No Me Quiero Ir De Aquí,” a historic, 31-concert series in San Juan.
While there, Pacheco met the Puerto Rican superstar and gave him a custom Chiefs jersey. It had the singer’s first name, Benito, on the back with the number 94, his birth year.
The meeting between the young NFL star and the global superstar, who on Sunday won the Grammy for Album of the Year, made headlines in Latin music media outlets.
A 30-minute Fubo TV special — “Bad Bunny X Isiah Pacheco: Juntos Somos Mas Fuertes” — premiering Saturday will tell the story of Pacheco’s trip to Puerto Rico and that viral meeting.
Pacheco, drafted by the Chiefs in 2022, is fiercely proud of his Puerto Rican heritage.
Remember him running around the field, wrapped in a Puerto Rican flag, after the Chiefs won Super Bowl LVIII in 2024?
The New Jersey native’s father, Julio Pacheco, is from Ponce, Puerto Rico. His mother is of Dominican descent.
In 2023, his rookie season, Pacheco played in Super Bowl LVII wearing a helmet with a Puerto Rican flag decal next to the American flag. That season the NFL allowed players to wear flags of other countries on their helmets to honor their heritages.
Pacheco’s helmet is now displayed at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
In 2024 Pacheco was featured in the NFL’s annual “Por La Cultura” (”For the Culture”) campaign spotlighting players of Latin heritage.
Pacheco gave a shoutout to Bad Bunny before last year’s Super Bowl game when a Latino reporter told him he does a “great job” representing his Puerto Rican culture.
Why do you do that, the reporter asked?
“It’s important to me. My roots,” Pacheco said.
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