Last Friday, before the long holiday weekend, Taylor Swift was spotted leaving the Electric Lady Studio, which is where she’s been recording and hanging out for much of the year. It’s sort of Taylor’s “hot spot” of 2023. She invites friends to the studio and, during her brief relationship with Matt Healy, it was the site of some of her biggest pap strolls. Her outfit on Friday was cute, although the twirly skirt might need a few more inches. It feels like Taylor is very into ‘90s/Clueless style these days.
So, she was in New York last week, but then she flew to Kansas City over the weekend. She celebrated Christmas there, with her boyfriend Travis Kelce. The Chiefs played the Raiders on Christmas Day, and Taylor brought her parents to the game. The Chiefs lost. While they won their game two Sundays ago (against the Patriots), this was their third loss out of the past four games they’ve played. Which means that some sports bros feel the need to chime in and blame Taylor for the Chiefs’ poor performances.
Feels like it's about time to call Taylor Swift a distraction. What do you think, Patrick? Andy? How about you, Travis?
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) December 25, 2023
I mean… I knew that as soon as the Chiefs started losing games, Taylor would get blamed. It happens all the time, because sports bros are awful people. I genuinely wonder if this whole thing will get the NFL to stop hyping Traylor so much, because they went overboard and that’s part of it too.
Merry Christmas from Santa and his helper Taylor Swift. @fox4kc #ChiefsKingdom #TaylorSwift pic.twitter.com/yQkr5R9sEB
— Rob Collins (@RobCollinsTV) December 25, 2023
Travis Kelce is rolling and Taylor Swift is fired up 🔥 pic.twitter.com/PJV1YYqDAC
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) December 25, 2023
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Skip Bayless is a douche bag troll who is all about clickbait. They said the same shit about Jessica Simpson with Tony Antonio Ramiro Romo & tried that shit with Gisele with Tom. The unusual misogyny.
KC winning would just send the far right, incel, Nazi trashholes into a tailspin and I am here for it.
I really hate those chunky loafers Taylor is wearing.
Second on Skip just being an awful human being. His only way to get attention these days is to troll.
Third on him being a trash pile.
This is the same guy who made fun of Dak Prescott for being open about his struggles with mental health after his brother unalived himself.
He can go sit in a dark corner with Bill Simmons.
Fourth.
“Her outfit on Friday was cute, although the twirly skirt might need a few more inches”
Did you not cringe writing this? How embarrassing for you. I’m not even a TS fan but I’m not coming back to this site.
There was a collective side of relief from sports columnists when Charles Barkley called out Bayless as an idiot. It had to do with Ken Griffey Jr. Knowledgeable sports figures called Bayless out after Barkley. One of the columnists said it took 25 years for someone to say what everyone thinks. Skip Bayless is an idiot.
Yeah, Taylor’s clearly the problem as opposed to an aging Travis being the only reliable piece that Mahommes has on offense.
Skip is a terrible and his takes are always extreme to generate views.
I hope Taylor and Travis had a lovely Christmas.
Let’s willfully ignore the fact that half of the team was probably up at 5:30am opening presents with little kids. Or having a good time on Christmas Eve with their families the night before the game. Nope, blame Taylor and not the interceptions, missed catches blah blah blah.
I mean, it’s Christmas for the other team and their families too so not a great reason to play poorly. But yeah, one player out of 30 (?) on the team’s girlfriend being the reason for them losing is even more silly.
I’m not in the US so don’t know how far along the competition is but it seems like people are going to lash out like crazy if they don’t get their perfect all-American couple Super Bowl moment. Is that still on the table or slipping away?
Maybe, but I wonder if the visiting team would have hauled their entire nuclear families with them to a hotel for Christmas, whereas the Chiefs had the distraction of being in their home settings and probably tried to squeeze in a normal Christmas morning on game day or were still tasked with assembling playhouses at 10 pm on Xmas eve when the kids were finally asleep.
Nfl players stay in hotels the night before games, even for home games. This allows a strict curfew to be enacted. So no one was up late assembling Christmas gifts for the kids. The Chiefs sucked yesterday because they’re just not very good this year. Even Mahomes and Kelce played like garbage when they’ve been the ones holding it together.
MissM is correct, and the home team stays in a hotel the night before a game.
The Chiefs let go of some quality wide receivers in the last two seasons because they believed Pat Mahomes could get the ball to anyone and they could have the same level of success. Their offense has been exposed because they did not value the WR position in the offseason, and defenses are taking Travis out of the game. Taylor’s relationship with Travis and her being at the game is a tired excuse.
As a fan of another AFC team, I’m happy to see the Chiefs struggling. The fact that Pat and Travis are acting out on the sidelines when they face a bit of adversity in a season when everything isn’t going their way makes me side-eye the hell out of them.
Anyone else feel like accusations of spoiling the milk and killing crops are really behind us? They do looove blaming women, don’t they. Wait for it, some man will say she had her period.
In this case it is so reaching that it is not getting much traction and a lot of pushback because Travis is about the only one on offense still playing well along with a rookie receiver and he has played through injury this season. It is one of the plus sides of Taylor dating a tightend instead of the QB of many past female celebrities that got blamed. Travis has less media responsibilities and isn’t touching the ball more than a dozen plays at most. Wins or losses are almost never going to be on him.
A tale as old as time. Beauty and the Beast and “This woman is ruining everything!” Weird that when they were winning everything no one thought to credit Brittany Mahomes.
Love it, and she’s petty enough to throw that out at these kind of guys. I think Mahomes has had more injuries this year, he’s apparently had a pectoral one for the past month or so. It’s pretty clear they only have one other receiver besides Travis that consistently catch, and their main rusher just came back from being out and got kicked in the head during this game. Mahomes scrambling is just about the only offense they had that worked this game.
Both of the Kelce brothers have said on their podcast that losing isn’t fun, I think if their seasons go bad this year, they might retire. Jason is always on the edge anyway, and Travis only has one or two more seasons left in him max, Taylor or no Taylor.
This wasn’t just a loss, it was a shockingly embarrassing loss. The offense played like they had never met before, Mahomes looked like he had wandered onto the field my mistake and Kelse had multiple tantrums on the sidelines.
It’s stupid to blame Taylor, but it’s not stupid to wonder why this lack of focus is happening. The Chiefs have been chasing publicity for a while now, since before Taylor. Every other commercial has Mahomes or Kelse in it.
Most, if not all, of those commercials get filmed during the off-season. That has nothing to do with it.
Yeah the whole team played terribly, Mahomes in particular — he spent the entire second half running around like a chicken with his head cut off. It was bad.
Not only do the chiefs not have an elite WR1 (maybe not even WR2), they lost their OC in the off season which seems like a large problem. Kelce is an elite TE, and I think Rice (he’s on my fantasy team and has been ok) is serviceable, but I think they need a better OC more than anything.
I was just saying this to my mom yesterday. The Chiefs O-line is missing Eric Bieniemy. They are not gelling the way they have in previous years. The defense is playing like it’s the 1990s – too bad our offense is, too.
Not surprised that Skip Bayless is being this obnoxious. He’s dreadful.
Fashion-wise, I feel like this is Taylor’s cheerleader/jock’s girlfriend era (not necessarily Clueless).
My husband rolls his eyes when I mention the Taylor-Travis news and when I mentioned this headline he said: I guess Taylor was out there throwing the ball. 🤣
Maybe they should have put her in at halftime. She couldn’t have done worse.
Word.
Ridiculous. Unless, like Seraphina said, Taylor is out there throwing the ball, or calling the plays, or is one of the coordinators….I doubt she’s distracting Mahomes and the Oline, or the defensive line, or special teams or place kicker….it’s that the Chiefs, despite their hype from their past successes, are not as good as they should be. Mahomes is more erratic this year (on the field, his sideline temper tantrums are entertaining but not the issue), the Chiefs failed to build him a rock solid O line and the defense at times is nothing more than tissue paper.
On second thought, maybe Taylor should start calling the plays, maybe it would help.
From my non-sports knowledgeable, casual observer perspective, it seems like Mahomes came out to a really great debut when he first appeared in the league, had crazy success with the two Super Bowls, and he’s just now getting his first tastes of big screen losses/setbacks and he doesn’t know how to deal with it because he hasn’t had to deal with it before now. The tantrums are a sign of his professional immaturity. I think he will grow into it with time and he seems to have mentors available to him but it’s a bit cringey to watch it play out for now. Now can someone please retrieve my eyeballs from where they rolled into the back of my head at blaming a person who never touched the ball for this loss??
I don’t like excusing pouty behavior at all. Mahomes should be better. He was raised in a family with a MLB player as a father.
This is annoying but 100% predictable. She’s not the first sports girlfriend who has been blamed for a teams loss.
Mahomes and Kelce looked bad out there – not just in terms of performance but attitude. It was like Mahomes could not believe they were losing.
Seems like the Raiders couldn’t believe they were winning.
A great locker room speech. They believe. #85 behind Coach Pierce looks like Travis Kelce.imo I’m a GB fan. A fan of Andy Reid. Not blindsided enough to not appreciate another’s team good game plan or recognize the failures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw0-mzBcGQo
For those that didn’t watch the game. 2 defensive TD’s in 7 seconds is huge and fun to watch.
btw, Taylor Swift WAS NOT ON THE FIELD AT THE TIME. lol
https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/39182089
It all brings me back to the Barbie monologue about how impossible it is to be a woman. If the team wins, it’s in spite of her presence, if they lose it’s because of her presence.
A man did something wrong- quick, blame the nearest woman.
*A team of men.
Travis is 30 odd yards from having a 1,000 yard season for the 8th year in a row, which will be an NFL record. Of course he’s not the problem, nor any woman he dates. Skip Bayless is an irrelevant fool trying to stir the pot.
How about we blame the Raiders defense for playing “lights out” and rattling Mahomes? Oh, wait…🤔
For all of his talent, you can throw Mahomes out of his rhythm. Ask the Buccaneers during their Super Bowl. Their defense had the man running for his life the whole game.
LOL, right! It’s Taylor Swift’s fault that the Raiders Defense played ‘lights out’. They did. Two defensive TD’s in 7 seconds. We watched the game closely (fantasy football) and were quite relieved that DH’s opponent played the Bronco’s Def instead of the Raider’s D who were on the bench. Pacheco fumbled the ball that Nicholls?( recovered and ran in for a TD.). Jack Jones picked off Mahomes seconds later. Max Crosby on the Raiders is a players player.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2023/11/29/raiders-maxx-crosby-shares-grisly-photo-injured-knee-hospitalized from November The Raiders have been coming together since the firing of McDaniels. He was a problematic head coach. Antonio Pierce is doing a really good job rallying the team to be cohesive. I hope he gets the permanent job. The players seem to like him. It’s really bad when a sports columnist blames a girlfriend on a team’s play.
Telling my husband this saga, his response, “Is Skip Bayless an asshole because of his wife?”. Answering his own question, “Nah, Bayless has always been an ignorant *sshole.”.
Mahomes is easily spooked, as soon as the first thing goes sideways, he is pretty much done for the game.
Almost 2024 and still somehow a Female is blamed for the men players losing.
Next, “Taylor has him under her spell.”
The sports Dudes are full of baloney.
Way to go Taylor! What power you have. Next time why don’t you ruin the beer of everyone drinking it in the stadium. That would be fun.
Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs offensive line lost that game. The Raiders pass rush won that game.
Taylor is not a good person. She was hoping the outrage over Matt Healey’s racist comments would die down. His racism was not a deal breaker for her personally. When the public would not let up she ditched him She will not even bother writing a song about him because she and her fans want everyone to forget. Travis Kelce a naked opportunist and attention seeker of the highest order is and a**. Taylor has nothing to do with this team losing but she is crap person in general.
I am amused by the aggressive and calculated PR strategy that is this relationship is blowing up. Taylor will be fine but this is funny .
I wonder how Ryan Reynolds PR firm will spin this
@Cait, uhmm, your point is that you believe Taylor is a crap person but you agree she is not responsible for the poor play of the Chiefs vs. the Raiders. Okay, I agree on 50% of what you said. A tricky 50%
You do not have to agree . I am just stating my opinion on Taylor who I do not think should be blamed for the loss of this NFL team . But seeing how this aggressive PR push from her and Kelce has soured so quickly his hilarious. But I guess all attention is good in the entertainment business.
I remember when Travis was pitching that Reality show were he dated a girl from each of the 50 states he has always been and attention wh*re .
I hope that Ex of his that was harassed by Taylor’s fans (who she never told to stop)
has a good chuckle over all this. I know I am.
I mean, she IS a distraction. Environmentalists hate her for her excessive private flights. She’s singlehandedly ruining our planet. So ya, blame her. I do. I have always loved football. She doesn’t need to make herself so publicly known at games. But she does. Boooooo Taylor.
She’s singlehandedly ruining our planet? It’s just her private jet causing all of this climate change?
But — she is a distraction. They even ask players about her in pregame interviews, press conferences, promotional appearances, etc. Why? She’s not a part of the team.
Anyway, where was all this hewing and crying when she was being called their “lucky charm”, and that Travis and the team played better when she was in attendance. “Fans”, hers in particular, where in love with that narrative. Now, she’s a non-factor in everything, she has nothing to do with anything. With this public spectacle they are ALL creating, you have to take the good AND the bad.