Rachel Lindsay Believes Taylor Swift Followers Are Exhibiting Disregard for Soccer

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Rachel Lindsay doesn’t love the thought of individuals tuning into Kansas Metropolis Chiefs video games simply to catch a glimpse of Taylor Swift.

“There’s no different emotion that comes out of me than hating it,” Lindsay, 38, mentioned on the Thursday, October 12, episode of the “The View Behind the Desk” podcast of the current protection of Swift, 33, at rumored boyfriend Travis Kelce’s video games. “I really like this recreation, I really like the game. Clearly, we’ve been conversant in Travis Kelce since he entered the league.”

Lindsay, who rose to fame on The Bachelor and went on to turn out to be season 13 lead for The Bachelorette, is an enormous sports activities fan — and is even in a star fantasy soccer league alongside John Legend, David Spade, Darius Rucker and others. She confessed she is a fan of Kelce, 34, and “even watched his relationship present” when it aired in 2016.

Swift has attended three Chiefs video games to help Kelce in current weeks after the tight finish tried to offer the musician his telephone quantity at The Eras Tour in July.

“It’s simply exhausting the way in which persons are, for me, it’s slightly obnoxious, the Taylor Swift followers. Love that you simply’re into the game, however they’re not — they’re into the Taylor–Travis Kelce of it,” Lindsay defined on Thursday. “It’s an excessive amount of data. The media is enjoying into it an excessive amount of. Persons are coming to video games carrying shirts that say ‘Taylor Swift’s boyfriend.’ It’s just a bit disrespectful to the game and to the sport and even to Travis Kelce.”

Whereas Lindsay acknowledged she was being “damaging” in regards to the spectacle occurring between Swift and Kelce, she does see how the NFL participant’s newest romance has helped enhance his reputation.

“This has been superb for Travis. He’s bought extra Instagram followers … he’s crossed over into a complete new viewers,” she famous. “That is incredible for him however I don’t wish to always see flashes of her with Donna Kelce within the suite and no matter well-known mates she decides to deliver.”

On Thursday night time, Swift watched the Chiefs beat the Denver Broncos alongside Travis’ mother and father, Donna and Ed.

Two weeks prior, she introduced Blake Vigorous, Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman and extra to MetLife Stadium to see the Kansas Metropolis workforce beat the New York Jets. Greater than 27 million viewers tuned in to observe that recreation making it the most-watched Sunday TV present since Tremendous Bowl LVII, in accordance with NBC Sports activities.

Sports activities broadcaster Al Michaels revealed on Thursday that the Thursday Night time Soccer manufacturing workforce met forward of the sport to debate their plan on how the community wished to cowl Swift on the recreation.

“Our crew talked about it this morning,” Michaels, 78, mentioned to Sports activities Illustrated on the time. “You may’t make a sideshow the present. The overwhelming majority of the viewers are tuning in to observe a soccer recreation. There are individuals, I don’t know what number of, it could possibly be a large quantity, but it surely’s actually not a majority, that in the event you educated the digital camera on her all night time lengthy, they’d be glad with that. This isn’t what we’re doing to do.”

Whereas neither Travis nor Swift have confirmed their relationship standing, Lindsay does consider the twosome are collectively — and a superb match.

“The ladies love Travis Kelce, why would she not fall for him? And vice versa,” Lindsay shared, “She’s a gifted, lovely lady. I get it. I simply don’t want it in my face on a regular basis.”