Swift a cancer in NFL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The sheep nature of swifties is really odd. Your kid who never has liked football watched the whole game because swift was there? Does she not have her own mind and interests?

I know right? No one even just roots for a team because their Dad and Grandpa liked that team. It's only original fandom or DIE!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The sheep nature of swifties is really odd. Your kid who never has liked football watched the whole game because swift was there? Does she not have her own mind and interests?

I know right? No one even just roots for a team because their Dad and Grandpa liked that team. It's only original fandom or DIE!

Defensive sheep, I guess. You do understand rooting for a team is different than spending 3.5 hours doing something you have no interest just because a pop star is doing it.

[Anonymous]

I’ve never cared for football. No one in my family watched it and I didn’t grow up with it. When I would turn it on the commentators were speaking a language I didn’t understand: fair catch, touchback, offsides, safety, down, pocket. There was no football for dummies commentary. If I tried to watch with my friends they knew all the terminology and told me they would explain later. But of course by later I had more questions. It wasn’t just the definition of a field goal that I wanted it was also the why….

On Big Bang during a thanksgiving episode Sheldon tells Bernie’s dad that the team is showing blitz so he he through a quick slant to a wide out….I still have no idea what that means or why that’s the play but if Sheldon can see it, why can’t the opposing team see it and do something different?

Those are really the type of questions I wanted answered—the why.

So now TS has entered football and the NFL is making it more accessible. I’ve started to listen to the New Heights podcast and their No dumb questions segment was fantastic.

I watched the game yesterday and it’s much more interesting now that I’m beginning to slowly understand it.

[Anonymous]

Don’t blame TS, blame the media milking this for all it’s worth and then some.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve never cared for football. No one in my family watched it and I didn’t grow up with it. When I would turn it on the commentators were speaking a language I didn’t understand: fair catch, touchback, offsides, safety, down, pocket. There was no football for dummies commentary. If I tried to watch with my friends they knew all the terminology and told me they would explain later. But of course by later I had more questions. It wasn’t just the definition of a field goal that I wanted it was also the why….

On Big Bang during a thanksgiving episode Sheldon tells Bernie’s dad that the team is showing blitz so he he through a quick slant to a wide out….I still have no idea what that means or why that’s the play but if Sheldon can see it, why can’t the opposing team see it and do something different?

Those are really the type of questions I wanted answered—the why.

So now TS has entered football and the NFL is making it more accessible. I’ve started to listen to the New Heights podcast and their No dumb questions segment was fantastic.

I watched the game yesterday and it’s much more interesting now that I’m beginning to slowly understand it.

Their podcast really is awesome. If you have any desire to learn, that's a great place.

[Anonymous]

Whatever. I've been a football fan my whole life - my first game was as a 2-year-old with my parents at the Ice Bowl in 1967 - and I think it's great fun.

The real cancer in the NFL is the risk of CTE and other lifelong debilitating injuries the players face, especially those who only play a couple of years and don't make enough money to pay for their future care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The sheep nature of swifties is really odd. Your kid who never has liked football watched the whole game because swift was there? Does she not have her own mind and interests?

I know right? No one even just roots for a team because their Dad and Grandpa liked that team. It's only original fandom or DIE!

Defensive sheep, I guess. You do understand rooting for a team is different than spending 3.5 hours doing something you have no interest just because a pop star is doing it.

NP. That’s right, honey, everyone’s a sheep but you because you…let’s see here…spend every Sunday watching football. You’re such a very unique and independent thinker!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Whatever. I've been a football fan my whole life - my first game was as a 2-year-old with my parents at the Ice Bowl in 1967 - and I think it's great fun.

The real cancer in the NFL is the risk of CTE and other lifelong debilitating injuries the players face, especially those who only play a couple of years and don't make enough money to pay for their future care.

Yes, exactly. To the OP, as TS herself would say, “You need to calm down.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd suggest you contact the NFL and Fox. The coverage they provide during the game is a decision from the highest corporate levels. Showing Swift all the time is not a result of a bunch of 14 year olds begging the network. Business execs from the league and TV are behind this.

Yesterday's game was on CBS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not Swift’s fault. She’s just living her life and the media really exploits any and all footage because she has a huge fan base (and base that hates her) so it generates views and dialogue including this post. And is she really the worst thing to happen to football? Don’t be so dramatic. I’m not even a Swift fan.

+1 The worst thing to happen to football? What a ridiculous statement.

[Anonymous]

Just calm down OP. This is nothing but a quick PR boosting relationship for both of the. If you remember, Taylor’s most recent maybe ex was caught watching racist p*rn/making racist comments (https://variety.com/2023/music/news/matty-healy-apologizes-pledges-do-better-moving-forward-1235743505/ ) and people were starting to drag Taylor into it, so they had to break up. I’m actually unclear if they were seriously dating or not but they are/were friends and maybe more. Anyway, she needed a distraction relationship and who better than probably the most All-American guy anywhere? They’ll be broken up by the end of the season at the latest and that’ll be that.

Famous NFL girlfriends and wives have always got a lot of attention … remember when Tony Romo dated Carrie Underwood and Jessica Simpson for a few minutes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It may be annoying to you and long-time fans but I have a high school DD and she watched the entire game last night with a friend. Imagine all the teenage and young 20 somethings who tuned in last night. I think the NFL needs to expand its fan base, no?

But how biased will the refs be to make sure the chiefs don't suck? The refs already made sure Maholmes gets evrrrrrrrrry single call already, and that was before Swift entered the fray. Now they're going to triple down to make sure the Chiefs don't suck and get everything called their way. It completely ruins the integrity of play. Let me remind you of the horrendous call the Chiefs got in the super bowl last year that essentially cost the Eagles the Super Bowl:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve never cared for football. No one in my family watched it and I didn’t grow up with it. When I would turn it on the commentators were speaking a language I didn’t understand: fair catch, touchback, offsides, safety, down, pocket. There was no football for dummies commentary. If I tried to watch with my friends they knew all the terminology and told me they would explain later. But of course by later I had more questions. It wasn’t just the definition of a field goal that I wanted it was also the why….

On Big Bang during a thanksgiving episode Sheldon tells Bernie’s dad that the team is showing blitz so he he through a quick slant to a wide out….I still have no idea what that means or why that’s the play but if Sheldon can see it, why can’t the opposing team see it and do something different?

Those are really the type of questions I wanted answered—the why.

So now TS has entered football and the NFL is making it more accessible. I’ve started to listen to the New Heights podcast and their No dumb questions segment was fantastic.

I watched the game yesterday and it’s much more interesting now that I’m beginning to slowly understand it.

Sheldon's dad was a football coach. He grew up in east Texas, where football is king. Plus, he's a genius. So of course he knows the plays and has a birds eye view of the game. Being on the field is different.

[Anonymous]

Do you know who’s loving all of this? It’s Brittany Mahomes. She is eating up the game and doesn’t want Taylor Swift to go away.

I don’t mind her. I like her but I’m getting so tired of hearing about her and her relationship with Travis when I’m watching a game. The commentators need to dial it down by 80%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you know who’s loving all of this? It’s Brittany Mahomes. She is eating up the game and doesn’t want Taylor Swift to go away.

I don’t mind her. I like her but I’m getting so tired of hearing about her and her relationship with Travis when I’m watching a game. The commentators need to dial it down by 80%.

Fame, not game.