Sunday night’s NFL matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and New York Jets turned out to be a much more exciting game than expected — and not for the reason sports media want you to believe.
After leading 17-0 at the end of the first quarter, the Chiefs found themselves locked in a bitter fight to stay above .500. Over the next half-hour of play, the Jets came storming back, tying the game (20-20) by the end of the third quarter, putting the Chiefs on their heels. With New York’s defense firing on all cylinders and Kansas City’s offense struggling to move the ball, there remained a real possibility heading into the fourth quarter that the defending Super Bowl champs could lose to the struggling New York franchise and its second-string quarterback.
While the Chiefs ultimately prevailed (23-20), the down-to-the-wire matchup proved to be one of the most thrilling games of the NFL season thus far. But you wouldn’t know it if you were listening to the game’s television announcers.
Instead of solely focusing on the game in front of them — which is what any real football fan tuning in actually cares about — “Sunday Night Football” hosts Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth could not stop talking about pop singer Taylor Swift. Despite having zero impact on the game, Swift — who attended the matchup to support her new boo, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce — became a major topic of conversation for Tirico and Collinsworth, who gossiped about
