The NFL knows they are bleeding numbers from the male demographic after the Krapernick kneeling/ BLM stupidity, which is why they have for the past few years tried to push women in the forefront of football and get them as viewers. This is why we had the retarded Super Bowl commercial with the mexican flag football chick outrunning NFL pros, why magically women “assistant coaches” started popping up, and now why the corporate media and NFL are pushing “OMG Taylor swift and Travis Kelce!” With her being at the chiefs games plastered everywhere. This all screams hail corporate manipulation to get retarded “swifties” to suddenly start watching football.
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edit: plenty of people saying that it is indeed generating interest. Taylor Swift fans are there for Taylor Swift, not football -- and as Mpetey mentions below, that attention isn't going to last.
You forgot how retarded the swifties are. These are the same women who get sociologically conditioned into think “men” with x fad is “the hottest thing ever”. 10 years ago it was man buns, 5 years ago it was “dad bods”, now it’s tattoos and mustaches, in 5 years it will be lumberjack flannel and septum piercings.
Man, that is one twisted and horrific combo to imagine.
I’m a lumberjack, and it’s ok.
With people around me it's mainly working on men who have wives/girlfriends. The guys had been kind of lukewarm on sportsball lately but now their women are all like "HEY LETS WATCH THE GAME TAYLORS GONNA BE THERE!"
Two teachers on my hall and my own wife all three said those words. Unironically.
So said lots of people just this weekend.
Nothing like desperately trying to find that "untapped market" after you have burned down your old one.
Wait, are we talking about the NFL or inner city neighborhoods? Eh, either works.
Pretty much, they fucked with their long term audience and are desperately trying to pander to another to replace numbers.
Which won't work, most women aren't into sports, looking at TV viewing habits, they're into reality tv and crime documentaries.
Their ideas of sports is real housewives of Beverly hills drama.
They don't have to replace anybody, the NFL never lost any significant audience. Taylor Swift fans getting really into the Chiefs is just a lucky bonus for them.
Partially correct.
It is paid by the DNC, not the NFL.
I'm not sure if it's directed or not, but I still don't give a fuck about sportsball man dating singer woman.
It's amazing how much shit I find out about from people because I pretty much actively avoid social media (and mass media in general).
Devil's advocate: NFL isn't paying but is capitalizing on it bigly. Taylor Swift is worth like half a billion dollars. I really don't picture her doing some stunt where she is shipped with a football man. If they can afford her I'd imagine they have her sing an opener for a night game program like Faith Hill used to, do ad spots or sing at the superbowl. But some publicity stunt of her riding the mustache? Nah, that's just a freebie.
Taylor swift’s entire income has come from two things 1. Constant media attention and 2. Having more exes than DiCaprio while pretending to be the girl next door. She will profit massively from this relationship, the breakup and ensuing drama. It would not surprise me at all if this is a Hollywood scripted relationship.
I don't disagree with you that it's good for both NFL and Taylor Swift (and Kelce if he's getting it I suppose) but I believe it's less planned than it's spontaneous thottery on the part of Ms. Swift that the NFL got to capitalize on.
If Hollywood scripted the relationship, the football man would've been black.
Swift wouldn’t be able to keep selling the girl next door image with a black nfl player, she would then be put up next to the kardashians, plus black people would wig out over a black nfl players dating a beanpole.
Let's run a Deadpool on how long they last as a couple. I'm going for 73 days
How long until she's "writing" songs about how much he sucks? 🤔
74 days
72 days. She has a first draft before she dumps them or they tell her she's nuts.
I didn't realise he was a Pfizer cheerleader so he may die before then lol
Didn't most of their viewers return? Last I heard, ratings keep going up but tbh I haven't followed closely.
They're definitely going after women though.
I think there was some reprisal in the male market, but not enough to get back what they lost, what we are seeing is pseudo viewership inflation, this is where they play a game in England, have it broadcast on English television, then count it as viewership ratings. Same with streaming platforms like YouTube and Amazon pumping it into every feed because even a misclick or a 5 second view can be registered.
I had this exact same thought
The NFL will engineer entire games based on one or two questionable holding or pass interference calls that no one will talk about a week later. Maybe it's just me, but it feels like it's been really bad over the past several years, and I don't feel like college football is consistently as bad. That being said, both are surely a waste of time.
All professional sports are rigged.
Wherever there’s money, there are crooks.