Tag: Kansas City Chiefs

Kansas City Stars, With Help From Taylor Swift, Are Advertising Champs

The Kansas City Chiefs enter Sunday’s Super Bowl having already won — when it comes to commercials. Over the past year, the star players Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, along with Coach Andy Reid, have been inescapable to TV viewers. Flipping channels, you might find Mr. Kelce baring his arm for a Pfizer Covid-19 shot, […]

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Steve Young Thinks Taylor Swift Has Made The Chiefs ‘More Dangerous’ For The Super Bowl

For much of this season, one of the dominant storylines around the Kansas City Chiefs has been the presence of Taylor Swift at games, cheering on the team from a suite, now that she’s dating star tight end Travis Kelce. Swift’s impact on the NFL and the Chiefs has been well-documented, as it’s drawn in […]

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Charles Barkley Is Picking The Niners To Win The Super Bowl Even Though He Keeps Betting Against The Chiefs And Losing

Charles Barkley, like many people, plans on putting some money down on Super Bowl LVIII. During an appearance on Inside the NFL, Barkley revealed that he’s bet on the Kansas City Chiefs to lose each of the last two weeks, and while that hasn’t worked out especially well for him, the National Basketball Hall of […]

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Why Republicans Can’t Shake Taylor Swift Off

Swift transcends politics, in other words—she has an undiluted influence that few cultural figures have in 2024. At the same time, that very flavor of influence, per the same March 2023 poll, which is uniquely strong among young people—millennials make up nearly half of her fan base—makes her particularly potent as a political player, especially […]

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Could Taylor Swift Swing the 2024 Election at the Super Bowl?

Swift transcends politics, in other words—she has an undiluted influence that few cultural figures have in 2024. At the same time, that very flavor of influence, per the same March 2023 poll, which is uniquely strong among young people—millennials make up nearly half of her fan base—makes her particularly potent as a political player, especially […]

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There’s a Super Bowl Extravaganza at Las Vegas Airports, Too

Nothing about Las Vegas is measured in moderation. The fluorescent buildings are towering and intentionally bright. Around casino floors, at pool parties and on the Vegas Strip, throngs of tourists daily play chicken with their alcohol tolerance levels and credit card limits. With the Super Bowl, the country’s biggest annual sporting event, happening in the […]

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Could This Be the Most Expensive Super Bowl Ever?

So you want to go to the Super Bowl this weekend. Even for non-football fans, this year’s spectacle of professional sports and over-the-top entertainment — in Las Vegas, no less — could be hard to resist. Some of the best players of their generation, like Nick Bosa, Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, will take the […]

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Travis Kelce Laughed At ‘Absolutely Ridiculous’ New York Times Story On The ‘Kelce Haircut’ (AKA A Fade)

Travis Kelce is the most famous tight end in NFL history, surpassing Rob Gronkowski for that honor this year as his popularity has exploded well beyond NFL fans now that he is dating the biggest pop star in the world, Taylor Swift. With that stature comes a level of attention few athletes receive and Kelce […]

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Super Bowl odds: If you like KC, pounce while you can

The Super Bowl is set, and now is as good a time as any to take stock of the board and secure some initial positions in this matchup. It’s the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers, a rematch of Super Bowl LIV, the first Patrick Mahomes championship. Is anything going to change? Securing […]

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Taylor Swift’s Influence Is Officially Airborne After American Airlines Created Special Super Bowl Flights With Swiftian Easter Eggs

Those in the know should appreciate that Super Bowl LVIII will be the 13th Kansas City Chiefs game attended by Taylor Swift. On Sunday, January 28, the Chiefs defeated the Baltimore Ravens, 17-10, in the AFC Championship Game to advance to their fourth Super Bowl in five years. The victory was sealed with a kiss […]

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Biden Vows to Retaliate, and a Super Bowl Rematch

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L’Jarius Sneed’s Diving Punch Forced A Ravens Fumble On The Goal Line

After marching down the field for a touchdown on their second drive of the game, the Baltimore Ravens offense had almost nothing working in the middle half of Sunday’s AFC Championship Game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Lamar Jackson struggled to find a rhythm against Kansas City’s pressure, and the running game was almost non-existent. […]

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Lamar Jackson Threw A Pass To Himself For A First Down Against The Chiefs

The Baltimore Ravens found themselves in serious danger in the second quarter of the AFC Championship Game when Lamar Jackson got stripsacked deep in his own end while already trailing 14-7 to the Kansas City Chiefs. However, for the first time all game the Ravens defense was able to get a stop, stuffing an Isiah […]

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Kadarius Toney Claims He’s ‘Not Hurt’ And The Chiefs Are Lying To Keep Him From Playing

The Kansas City Chiefs will face the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship game on Sunday afternoon in a matchup of two of the NFL’s best defenses and two of the league’s best quarterbacks in Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson. As has been the case all season, a prevailing storyline coming into Sunday’s game in […]

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Will Taylor Swift Go To The Chiefs Vs. Ravens Playoff Game In Baltimore?

The cheapest ticket on StubHub for the AFC championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens on Sunday is $539. For the NFC Championship, where the Detroit Lions will travel to California to play the San Francisco 49ers, it’s $433. Why the $100 difference? Call it the Taylor Swift effect. Will Taylor Swift […]

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Shirtless Sweetheart Jason Kelce Made A Young Taylor Swift Fan’s Day With An Awesome Assist At The Chiefs Game

Music and football have long gone hand in hand, ever since the annual Super Bowl Halftime Show became a cultural phenomenon. The relationship between the two entertainment pillars entered a different level this year, though, when Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce started their relationship. This got Swifties tuning into Kelce’s NFL games, introducing a whole […]

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The Bills Game-Tying FG Attempt Blew Wide Right Giving The Chiefs A Win In Buffalo

The Kansas City Chiefs will continue their title defense in Baltimore next Sunday afternoon after handing the Bills their latest playoff heartbreak on Sunday night in Buffalo. It was an instant classic that saw the two teams hit big plays, trade blows, and make some critical mistakes that left the outcome in doubt all the […]

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Mecole Hardman Fumbled Through The End Zone After A Disastrous Bills Fake Punt To Keep Buffalo Alive

The Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs produced another instant classic in their latest playoff meeting, this time in Buffalo where the two teams traded blows all night leading to a tense fourth quarter. Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes were magnificent, and it felt like the kind of game where a mistake (or big play) […]

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A Shirtless Jason Kelce Was Fired Up For Travis’ Touchdown Catch In Buffalo

Travis Kelce hasn’t been a major focal point of the Chiefs offense in recent weeks, as the star tight end had a few drops in the Wild Card round and has averaged just 53 yards per game over his last 10 coming into Sunday night’s AFC Divisional Round matchup with the Bills in Buffalo. It […]

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Sports Illustrated writer debunks fake Brett Favre quote on Taylor Swift

“When I saw the tweet, I immediately thought something was fishy because no reasonable human being would think Taylor Swift needs publicity or money, but this was apparently coming from Brett Favre, so I said to myself “Who knows, you better do some digging,” Traina wrote. “The person who tweeted it, Brian Krassenstein has 800,000 […]

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Patrick Mahomes’ Helmet Cracked On A Hit Against The Dolphins

Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs were able to move the ball extremely well against the Miami Dolphins on Saturday night in below-zero temperatures, but they struggled to finish drives with touchdowns once they got deep into the red zone. Three times in the first three quarters the Chiefs moved it deep inside Miami […]

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Kyle Juszczyk Was Very Proud Taylor Swift Wore A Custom Jacket Made By His Wife, Kristin, To Dolphins-Chiefs

With temperatures below zero and a wind chill of -30 degrees, going to the Dolphins-Chiefs Wild Card game in Kansas City was no small task for fans of both teams. The most famous of those is Taylor Swift, and despite the frigid temperatures she made her way to Arrowhead to cheer on Travis Kelce and […]

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Steelers-Bills Game Moved to Monday Due to Severe Weather

The Kansas City Chiefs will play at home against the Miami Dolphins on Saturday night in what are likely to be “dangerously cold temperatures,” but your sympathies should probably be directed toward the visiting team. A wind-chill warning will be in effect across the region from Friday night through Tuesday afternoon, according to the National […]

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NFL Playoffs Expect Severe Weather For Chiefs and Bills Games

The Kansas City Chiefs will play at home against the Miami Dolphins on Saturday night in what are likely to be “dangerously cold temperatures,” but your sympathies should probably be directed toward the visiting team. A wind-chill warning will be in effect across the region from Friday night through Tuesday afternoon, according to the National […]

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2024 NFL Playoffs: What’s at Stake for These Black QBs in the Postseason

It’s the most wonderful time of year: Playoff football season. Legacies are on the line. Hearts will be broken. And dreams will become reality. Like the 2023 Super Bowl, the Black signal-callers are once again the headliners for this year’s postseason. Each one has different expectations from the media and their respective fanbases. Some are […]

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Peacock Enters Uncharted Waters by Streaming N.F.L. Playoff Game

On Saturday night, NBCUniversal will make media history. For the first time, a National Football League playoff game — this one featuring the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins — will appear exclusively on a streaming service. And at NBCUniversal’s offices in New York and Los Angeles, executives are all too aware of the […]

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Andy Reid, Coach of Kansas City Chiefs, Makes Football Fun

Andy Reid, the coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, has won more than 250 games in his career, fourth all-time, which puts him high on any list of the N.F.L.’s greatest coaches. Most of the others in that pantheon are men who personify the sport’s militaristic soul — Vince Lombardi, for example, the fabled coach […]

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Tua Tagovailoa’s Late Interception Sets Up Steelers-Bills and Dolphins-Chiefs In The Playoffs

The Dolphins and Bills met in Miami in the final game of the NFL’s regular season with the AFC East title and the 2-seed in the conference on the line. Early on it looked like we were going to be headed for a rematch in the Wild Card round, as the Dolphins took a 14-7 […]

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