Seth Meyers actually doesn’t perceive how NFL followers can passionately hate the NFL’s recreation day protection of Taylor Swift.
“For all the people who complain about shots of Taylor Swift dancing and having fun during games, why? Why are you so mad?” Meyers, 50, quipped in the course of the Wednesday, January 31, episode of his Late Night With Seth Meyers discuss present. “I love football, but there’s 11 minutes of actual gameplay [shown on the broadcast].”
He continued, “What would you rather look at: shots of [Kansas City Chiefs coach] Andy Reid’s mustache freezing? Well, good news, you get both!”
Meyers was referring to the Chiefs’ AFC Wild Card recreation in January towards the Miami Dolphins. “Taylor was at that game [too] and that’s when I knew it was for real,” he joked. “When this woman went to Kansas City in January when it was minus f—king 27 [degrees] with a wind chill because you know where else Taylor Swift could have been? Anywhere.”
Meyers additional identified that Swift, whom he referred to as “one of our greatest national treasures,” is courting “a guy named f—king Travis.”
“This is such an innocent All-American thing: They’re kissing on the field after he wins the big game and she’s celebrating with his mom and dancing along with family,” the discuss present host added. “How can you be mad at that?”
Swift, 34, has been a proud member of Chiefs Kingdom since September 2023 in help of boyfriend Travis Kelce, a good finish for the crew, whom she began courting the earlier summer time. Swift has attended 12 of Kelce’s soccer video games, the place she’s often been proven on the Jumbotron and on digicam. The protection outraged a number of sports activities followers, who claimed that the pop star is prioritized onscreen over the precise recreation.
“I don’t know how they know what suite I’m in. There’s a camera, like, a half-mile away, and you don’t know where it is, and you have no idea when the camera is putting you in the broadcast, so I don’t know if I’m being shown 17 times or once,” Swift instructed TIME in a December 2023 profile. “I’m just there to support Travis. I have no awareness of if I’m being shown too much and pissing off a few dads, Brads and Chads.”
While soccer video games sometimes air for 3 hours on TV, lower than 20 minutes are devoted solely to the sport because the digicam usually cuts to photographs of followers within the stands, play evaluations, professional commentary, sideline footage of the coaches and commercials. Sportscaster Colin Cowherd famous in January that the “18 minutes of actual football” lasts the identical size as 5 of Swift’s songs.
Travis’ brother, Jason Kelce, can be on board with the NFL’s protection of Swift.
“The attention’s there because the audience wants to see it. If people didn’t want to see it, they wouldn’t be showing it, I know that,” Jason, 36, joked throughout an interview with Cincinnati’s ABC affiliate WCPO 9 on Friday, February 2. “She’s a world star and the quintessential artist right now in the world. [She’s] immensely talented, an unbelievable role model for young women across the globe, so I think that the NFL would probably be foolish not to show her and show her be a role model for all the young girls out there.”
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