Thin-skinned men triggered by Taylor Swift at NFL games should get a grip [View all]
The multiple Grammy winner was all over social media ahead of Saturday’s game, the NFL’s main accounts included. Got prominent play during the game, too, with NBC’s crew panning to them in a suite, cheering big plays. When the musical superstar was shown on the Jumbotron, fans in the stadium went into a frenzy.
Yet Eminem’s presence at the Detroit Lions playoff game last weekend didn’t prompt the overheated vitriol that Taylor Swift’s appearances at Kansas City Chiefs games do.
Imagine that.
“That's the thing that's disenchanting people with sports now,” Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy, now a broadcaster, whined last week. “There's so much on the outside coming in — entertainment value and different things taking away from what really happens on the field.”
It’s funny — and by funny I mean tiresome and lazy — how a high-profile female fan wrecks the game, while the prominent visibility of male celebrities or team owners at sporting events is accepted without complaint. Celebrated, even. Jerry Jones gets no shortage of airtime even when people aren’t trying to decipher his reactions to his team’s latest playoff meltdown. Matthew McConaughey’s presence at University of Texas games is considered kitschy and fun. Jack Nicholson was as central a figure in the Lakers’ Showtime era as Magic and Kareem.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2024/01/20/taylor-swift-chiefs-kelce-nfl-critics-dungy-thin-skinned/72272165007/
Seriously. And yet, when a MAN shows up at a women's soccer or basketball game, unless he's someone's dad, the announcers get all drooly---unless they're present or former players.
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