Open mouth; insert foot. At a press conference leading up to Timberlake's 2018 Super Bowl Halftime performance, he actually dissed the NFL. Seriously.
When asked if his son, Silas, would ever play football someday, Timberlake replied, "Uh, he will never play football. No, no."
To be fair, a lot of reports have come out recently about the negative effects of football (specifically, concussions) on players' brains, but this was probably the worst possible forum for Timberlake to make this particular statement.
He seemed to realize his error and attempt to back-pedal from the remark, telling press, "I mean, yeah, it's kind of like that thing where my main objective is that he become a great person, and if he wants to get into the arts or sports, then yeah, I would fully support that. I think I can hopefully offer him some advice on what to do and what not to do, so yeah, but right now we're working on our manners. That's a big deal in our house right now. It's like, one thing at a time."