ESPN sportscaster Elle Duncan is finished with the “dads, Brads and Chads” blaming Taylor Swift for Travis Kelce and the Kansas Town Chiefs’ recreation day performances.
“Do not blame Taylor Swift for being a ‘distraction’ for Travis Kelce not playing well, for the Chiefs playing good. No, it is not her fault,” Duncan, 40, mentioned right through the newest episode of her “Elle Duncan Show” podcast. “I am so tired of us doing this. And we do this to women.”
She persisted: “It’s Jessica Simpson’s fault [that] Tony Romo spit the bit. Remember Kim Kardashian and Miles Austin for a hot second? It’s her fault. It’s always the woman’s fault for ‘distracting.’ Nobody’s asking if Travis Kelce is distracting her from a world tour. No one’s saying that. And I don’t like that.”
Swift, 34, has been a fixture at boyfriend Kelce’s Chiefs video games since September once they took their summer season romance public. All over the video games, the NFL has ceaselessly proven Swift at the Jumbotron, incomes the ire of diehard sports activities audience.
Swift and her circle of relatives — mother Andrea, dad Scott and brother Austin — just lately attended the Chiefs’ Christmas Day recreation. After Kelce, additionally 34, and his staff misplaced to the Las Vegas Raiders, social media lovers straight away blamed the loss on Swift’s presence.
“Feels like it’s about time to call Taylor Swift a distraction. What do you think, Patrick? Andy? How about you, Travis?” FOX sports activities journalist Skip Bayless wrote by the use of X (previously Twitter) on the time.
Duncan, for her phase, is over Bayless, 72, and different NFL lovers bringing up Swift as the only explanation why that the Chiefs are underperforming this season.
“I don’t like that all of sudden that this has become, ‘This is too much, let’s turn it on Taylor. He’s distracted,’ like he can’t carry on a personal life and also a professional life,” Duncan pressed. “Get out of here. He’s Travis Kelce, stop. She’s not to blame. So please stop. Full stop on that narrative. Not OK. Stop.”
Swift and Kelce, in the meantime, haven’t let the web chatter deter their romance.
“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 up to now informed TIME in her Particular person of the Yr duvet tale previous this month. “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.”
Kelce even known as out the exact same “dads, Brads and Chads” for booing Swift right through the Monday, December 25, recreation.
“I’ll say this, they showed Taylor at the game, and you don’t see an entire home team fanbase go insane for somebody wearing the opposite team’s colors. Just shows you how amazing that girl is,” he mentioned at the Wednesday, December 27, episode of his “New Heights” podcast. “They went absolutely insane when they showed Taylor on the screen. … I was trying to keep it cool, I was like, ‘Don’t show your cards.’”