David Letterman has a message for a lot of NFL followers upset with all the eye Taylor Swift is getting for exhibiting as much as Kansas Metropolis Chiefs video games to assist her boyfriend, Travis Kelce: “That is such a beautiful factor. Shut up!” Hours earlier than the Chiefs defeated the Baltimore Ravens within the AFC Championship to safe a spot in Tremendous Bowl LVIII, the previous “Late Present” host took to social media to reward Swift and ship his blessings to her and Kelce.
“I don’t assume within the historical past of present enterprise or the historical past of common tradition we’ve ever witnessed something like this,” Letterman stated of Swift. “Great! She fills stadiums all over the world and places on a three-hour present. We reside in a world now the place all we hear is nonsense and ugliness. The nonsense can’t be extra nonsensical and the ugliness, God hopes it may well’t get any uglier. However that’s all we hear. And now right here’s Taylor Swift, who’s a glowing shiny mild of goodness on this planet, and she or he begins relationship [Travis Kelce].”
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Letterman added some humor to his message by mixing up Kelce’s title with fellow comic Kelsey Grammer, however the message was sturdy nonetheless.
“The [Kelce] folks say, ‘Oh, no, no, no, don’t trouble us. We’re all caught up in soccer. We don’t need Taylor and soccer.’ And the Taylor Swift folks, the Swifties, are saying, ‘Oh, we don’t need a footballer in right here with [Kelce],’” Letterman stated. “And I say to each camps, ‘That is such a beautiful factor. Shut up!”
Letterman continued, “It’s good for the footballers. It’s good for Taylor Swift and it’s one thing constructive and glad for the world. And in addition politically, Taylor Swift is a big drive, and I feel simply desires to see folks do the proper factor. So God bless Taylor Swift and [Kelce].”
Swift confirmed as much as a number of Chiefs recreation in the course of the 2023-24 NFL season, prompting widespread media protection. It looks as if each transfer she makes at every recreation spawns numerous headlines, together with in the course of the AFC Championship when she appeared on the sphere because the Chiefs celebrated their win and kissed Kelce.
Watch Letterman’s full message within the video beneath. The Chiefs are set to face off towards the San Francisco 49ers in Tremendous Bowl LVIII on Sunday, Feb. 11.
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