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‘Bachelorette’ Star Rachel Lindsay Slams Taylor Swift NFL Media Frenzy, Obsessed Fans: “Disrespectful to the Sport”
The Bachelorette star Rachel Lindsay is joining those who are tired of the media frenzy surrounding Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, especially when it impacts football games. During Thursday’s episode of The View‘s Behind the Table podcast, when asked how she felt about the whole Swift-Kelce phenomenon, she responded, “Hate it. Hate it. There’s no […]
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The NFL’s Taylor Swift Era: Who Wins the Most?
While the summer of 2023 had a blockbuster with Barbenheimer, fall is in the nascent stages of its own phenomenon. Call it: Football (Taylor’s Version). This NFL season has been anything but ordinary thanks to superstar Taylor Swift, who has attended two Kansas City Chiefs games after being linked with the team’s All-Pro tight end, […]
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Meet Tom Brady’s Hollywood Marketing Machine: Shadow Lion
Well before NFL star Tom Brady retired from professional football, his off-field legacy was beginning to take shape through a business that’s grown from a handful of people dedicated to optimizing the quarterback’s social media opportunities to a multidimensional creative studio with about 20 employees across the country. The company is called Shadow Lion, and […]
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Travis Kelce’s Mom Says NFL Is “Laughing All the Way to the Bank” After Taylor Swift Game Appearances
Star Kansas City Chiefs player Travis Kelce’s mom Donna Kelce is opening up about the “whirlwind” year it has been for her family, including the past few weeks. Not only did her sons Travis and Jason Kelce (Philadelphia Eagles center) face off in the 2023 Super Bowl, but her family has also recently been at […]
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Dick Butkus, Legendary Chicago Bears Linebacker Turned Actor, Dies at 80
Dick Butkus, the ferocious Chicago Bears middle linebacker who brought his reputation as an NFL barbarian to Hollywood for Miller Lite commercials, sitcoms and films, has died. He was 80. A member of the Screen Actors Guild for more than four decades, Butkus died peacefully in his sleep overnight at his home in Malibu, his […]
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NFL Defends Social Media Focus on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Amid Backlash
The NFL is defending its decision to spotlight Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, who have sparked romance rumors, amid recent backlash from some football fans. For the past two Sundays, Sept. 24 and Oct. 1, the pop star has shown up at the Kansas City Chiefs games, leading to quite a frenzy on social media. […]
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Travis Kelce Says Coverage of Taylor Swift at His Games Is “Overdoing It”
In case you haven’t heard, Taylor Swift has been attending some Kansas City Chiefs games lately, cheering on Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce. When Swift made a surprise appearance at the Chiefs-Bears game two weeks ago, Fox showed her laughing with Kelce’s mom, Donna Kelce, and chest-bumping a suitemate after the Chiefs star scored […]
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How Ryan Reynolds Helped “Jake From State Farm” Sneak Into the Kelce Suite During an NFL Game
On Saturday, Sept. 30, Ryan Reynolds hopped on a Microsoft Teams meeting to discuss a special guest in the Kelce family suite. No, it wasn’t for the Kansas City Chiefs-New York Jets game that evening, though Reynolds was conspicuously pictured in a suite that night alongside his wife, Blake Lively; actor Hugh Jackman; and unquestionably […]
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TV Ratings: Chiefs, Jets and Taylor Swift Drive Big NFL Audience
The intertwining of two of the biggest forces in American popular culture — the NFL and Taylor Swift — paid off handsomely for NBC on Sunday night. The network’s Sunday Night Football telecast scored its biggest audience of the season, averaging nearly 27 million viewers across all platforms, according to Nielsen and Adobe Analytics (as […]
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NBC’s Coverage of Sunday’s Chiefs-Jets NFL Game Puts Taylor Swift in the Spotlight
The action might have been on the gridiron during Sunday night’s NFL game, but NBC didn’t waste any opportunity to put the spotlight on the Kansas City Chiefs’ most famous fan up in the suites. Taylor Swift was at her second consecutive NFL game Sunday, once again cheering on Kansas, amid rumors that she and […]
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NBC Leans Into Taylor Swift to Build ‘Sunday Night Football’ Buzz
On Thursday evening, at New York’s Paley Center for Media, NBC Today anchor Savannah Guthrie moderated a panel with the team from NBC’s Sunday Night Football. So it stands to reason that she had to ask the tough questions. “What do you know about Taylor Swift?” Guthrie said to Mike Tirico, Cris Collinsworth and the […]
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The Taylor Swift Effect Is Very Real and It’s Now Taking the Sports World by Storm
To the music world, the power of Taylor Swift is nothing new. But this week, the sports world got a taste of just what the singer-songwriter and her Swifties can do. After the “Cruel Summer” singer made an appearance at the Chicago Bears and Kansas City Chiefs game Sunday to support football star Travis Kelce, […]
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