Skip Bayless claims NFL is fixing Chiefs games to ensure Taylor Swift at Super Bowl LIX

Skip Bayless believes the NFL is doing whatever it takes to get the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX so Taylor Swift can be in attendance. On The Skip Bayless Show, Bayless claimed that the league is fixing Chiefs games because the NFL wants Swift in New Orleans.

“Josh Allen and the Bills are up against a 60-man juggernaut. That’s 53 Chiefs and seven referees,” Skip Bayless said when talking about the upcoming AFC Championship game, per Awful Announcing. “The memo will go out, just as it did last week, ‘make sure Taylor Swift makes it to New Orleans for the Super Bowl.’ Without her, the NFL loses millions and millions of viewers who will tune in, mostly to see what she’s wearing up in that Superdome luxury box. So Mahomes, teetering though he might, must be propped up. Must be protected by the referees, just the way he was Saturday, at home against the Texans.”

Bayless made this claim after the Chiefs defeated the Houston Texans in the Divisional Round on Saturday. During the game, fans sounded off on officials after the Texans were penalized for roughing the passer and unnecessary roughness on Mahomes, and both penalties extended drives for the Chiefs.

“This is the Taylor Swift effect,” Bayless stated. “She is a one-woman ratings juggernaut. ‘Protect her! Prop her up! Award her boyfriend’s team with phantom penalties. Get them to New Orleans! The NFL needs the Swifties. Protect ‘em! Prop ‘em up! Make sure the Chiefs advance!’”

Taylor Swift ‘loves the game’ of football

Taylor Swift has been dating Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce since the summer/fall of 2023. The Chiefs reached the Super Bowl last year and the 14-time Grammy Award winner was there to see them win their second consecutive title.

In April of last year, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell appeared on The Pat McAfee Show to talk about Swift’s impact on the league. “There’s some things you can control or not control. Anybody who’s interested in the NFL, that’s good for me and good for everybody involved in the NFL,” Goodell explained. “You get somebody with the kind of exposure and the following like Taylor Swift, who does love football, I’ve known her for 15 years. I first met her in New Orleans.

“She loves the game, so that’s great for us,” Goodell continued. “Take the relationship out of it, which if they’re happy, I’m happy.”