Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid defended the most famous member of Chiefs Kingdom after she was loudly booed at this year’s Super Bowl.
Reid, 66, addressed the treatment of Taylor Swift, who is dating Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, after she was serenaded with vitriol after being shown on the big screen at the February 9 game between the Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles.
“She’s a good girl,” Reid told Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio and Chris Simms at the NFL Scouting Combine on Tuesday, February 25. “She handles that whole thing the right way. That’s a tough deal. She does a great job of handling it.”
Reid also gave a shout out to Kelce, 35, saying he does a similarly “great job” of dealing with all the noise.
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“She’s part of the team,” Reid said of Swift, 35. “Like the other girlfriends and wives, they’re part of it. That’s all part of the process.”
Swift appeared confused when she was booed at the game, which took place at New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome. Cameras caught the pop star turning to pal Ice Spice, who was sitting next to her in a suite, and asking, “What’s going on?”
Stars including Serena Williams, Livvy Dunne and Eagles running back Saquon Barkley also came to Swift’s defense in the aftermath.
“I remember that they showed her on the Jumbotron and she got booed,” Barkley, 28, said during a February 12 appearance on The Howard Stern Show. “I don’t get it. I don’t get why she was getting hate there.”
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Barkley continued, “She’s there supporting her significant other and she’s made the game bigger,” Barkley continued. “In football, we’re all about, how can we expand the game and make it more international? We’re traveling to Brazil and we’re traveling to Mexico, and apparently, we’re traveling to Australia soon, so we’re trying to expand the game. Her being a part of it’s only helping that, so I don’t get the slack that she’s getting.”
The Eagles defeated the Chiefs 40-22 in Super Bowl LIX, ending Kansas City’s quest to become the first team in NFL history to win three consecutive Super Bowls.
Since Swift started dating Kelce in September 2023, she has been a mainstay at Chiefs games and ingrained herself into the fabric of the franchise. According to Reid, it’s benefited both her and Kelce equally.
“When [Kelce] goes to her concerts, she’s a star,” Reid told The Athletic’s “Scoop City” podcast in July 2024 before joking, “And he can be hanging out there and be the support or the waterboy, so he can do that. … He can handle it. I think there’s a great escape for him.”
