October 30, 2023 • 43 mins
Sometimes sports and pop culture combine in unexpected ways. The recent influence of Taylor Swift on American football is undeniable, and we have the stats to back it up. As you may have heard, the pop sensation is dating Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce, and subsequently, the NFL has seen a huge influx of new fans and new money. So who is Travis Kelce and how is Taylor Swift changing the economics of America's biggest sport?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Two Good Sports would like to acknowledge the traditional owners
of the land on which we record this podcast that
will rundery people. This land was never seated, always was,
always will be.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hello and welcome to.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Two Good Sports sports news told differently. I'm Georgie Tanney.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And I'm Abby Jomian.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
On today's show, Georgie cannot contain her excitement because, dear listener,
we were meant to commence our first record of this
podcast in July.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Do you know why we couldn't?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Because one little Swifty out of this duo chose to
boost the global economy and fly to the US to
see Miss Taylor Allison Swift in concert. And fun fact,
it's sure as hell, wasn't me. Georgie is the biggest
Swifty you'll ever meet, so much so that on her
other little side job, the Project, they questioned her about
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why swift Mania just takes over a body.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Here's a clip.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
All of you can actually sit at the desk with
me right now because I'm just radiating nerves and anxiety
and desperation.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
You like this stuff generally, but what's the difference with like.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
What's.
Speaker 6 (01:10):
She's She's everything to me.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I'm like I am insane, passionate, crazy, whatever, sperlative to a.
Speaker 7 (01:18):
Lot of things, but more so about her.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
More so about Tay.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I have gone to every single concert that she has
ever come to Australia, so I've grown up with her,
like I've my first concert.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
That I went to see her.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I think I was like sixteen, like when Love Story
came out, and then it's like I have followed her
ever since then. And also it's a spectacle, I would say,
I mean, I Got was lucky enough to go to
Harry Styles when he was here, and it was a
really fun time, like it was, you know, two hours
of fun. But it's not like a spectacle. He doesn't
put on a huge show, whereas it is a stadium.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Got it appears as though it kind of physically takes
you over when you talk about getting tickets. Yeah, no
it does. Yeah, it really a cult.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
We already are.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
The reason I chose to use that clip is it's
not just in the safe space of this podcast that
Georgie goes full swifty. It is on national television with
Hamish McDonald looking at her with one raised eyebrow going
you are slightly unhinged, but George. Today's topic was just
built for you, because firstly, how was the concert? Because
half of Australia tried to get tickets and far less
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actually got a chance to go to the errors tour?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
What was it like in the US?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Everyone who has managed to get their hands on those
hot little tickets for next year, well done and brace yourself.
Start preparing now, Start doing your cardio, Start rationing water
because you have to be. You need to be dehydrated
to get through that concert, because you don't want to
miss a second. You've got to plan your toilet breaks.
It goes for three and a half hours. It was
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one of the highlights of my life. And I mean
that seriously. When she first appeared, I burst into tears
because I was so overwhelmed. I was like, I can't
believe that that's Taylor Swift again. And I have gone
to all of her other concerts as well, but it
had just been so long between them, and she's released
like a million albums since the last time she toured,
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so it was everything. There is this phenomenon on social
media where swifties are like I think I've got amnesia.
I'm too overwhelmed about the concert, Like I don't remember anything.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
I have that to a certain degree.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Some of the some parts of the concert are a
little bit like ify for me, because I think I
was just too overwhelmed and I wasn't really living in
the moment. But the bits that stand out are just
burnt into my memory forever, and it's just such a
cherished memory for me.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
It's amazing. It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
And if you're wondering, how on earth is this the
intro for our sports podcast, Dear Listen, we haven't just
let Georgie go rogue because this year, in addition to
becoming a billionaire, single handedly boosting the economy with her
tour that shut down Ticketmaster, having the highest grossing concert
film of all time that was just a couple of
weeks ago, and causing an earth quake at one of
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her concerts.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
She's not a god. She is a mere woman.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
But t Swift has made the NFL Taylor's Version, and
we are not exaggerating here. They changed their Twitter slash
x handle to say Taylor's Version. One of the biggest
sporting leagues in the world has been taken over by
swift Mania, and we sat back and said, no, we
can't do it too indulgent?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
To indulgent?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Now it is everywhere, and we are unleashing our expert
who's been studying for three decades because George is ready.
The result is the NFL's infiltrating mainstream media and pop
culture here in Australia and around the world at a
heightened frenzy usually only reserved for the Super Bowl halftime show.
Because Travis kelce who is a superstar of the NFL,
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decided just to throw some bait and somehow has caught
Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And we're not over this story.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
So who is Travis kelcey the new boyfriend of Taylor Swift?
What impact is Tay having on the viewing audience of
American football?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Do we love trailer? Yes, they already have a nickname.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh, we're gone deep dive and I'm so excited because
there's a glow coming from my dear friend and we
are ready. We're gonna tell you things about Travis kelce
and about Taylor Swift that you don't know, guaranteed because
there are layers here and a dating show so weird anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Headlines, Ah, headline one, Hey razzo a little bit fortunate perhaps, Oh,
here goes Sam Carr throw on gold car.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Blasts it into the roof of the.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Nat Sam Kerr has scored her fourth fourth hat trick
for the Matilda's on the team's way to an eight
nil route of the Philippines in game two of their
second round of a Limp qualifiers.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Gell me this was fun.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Fun for Ossie fans, probably not so fun for Philippines fans,
but even then, it was attacking footballs and they got
to see some great goals, and they got to see
Sam kers score three and Caitlin Ford score three and
Mary Fowler score our goal, and also Claire Wheeler score
her first goal for the Matilda's, so it was an
attacking route.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
It was super fun.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
The players were having a great time and importantly it
does put us to the top of our group, which means,
I mean we're gonna make it through to the third
round of Olympic qualifiers, but only two I believe only
two teams from the category of Asia are selected to
go to the Olympics, so it's very important that we
do maintain our top spot on the group so we
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can cement one of those spots.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
What was incredible about this for me is it was
in front of a sixty thousand sellout crowd, a capacity
OPTAs stadium, and that's just incredible. And particularly like Sam Kerr,
she's West Australian. And one thing I can tell you
about Perthian's gee we claim our own. Most of us
have like at least tattooed in our brain something about
Samka and something about dann Ricardo because we will claim
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them forever. And the fact that she got to do
this at a stadium with tens of thousands and we
know and we've seen the journey of what the Matildas
used to play in front of as recently as twenty nineteen,
and now this Olympic campaign marks their eleventh consecutive sold
out stadium in Australia.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You watch that and go, that would be really fun.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Eight Tonier should be a mercy rule anyway, No headline
two in just.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
When the late show was going on, like you stood
with your eyes like shut with their hands or is
it because you're feeling a little ill or do those
late kind of things always affect you? Well? I had
something like that light show similar happened at per Stadium
during a big Besh game and I just found like
it gave me shocking headaches and it takes me a
while from my eyes to readjust And I just think
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it's the dumbest idea for cricketers. When you've got this
theme you quickly and your eyes take so long to adjust,
and I think we just lost a wicket and made
the first aim. Lights when shot like nuts, and I
was the other end and took me ages to get
my eyes to go again and felt like I had
a headache. So I just I just try and cover
up as much as I possibly can and ignore it.
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But it's a horrible, horrible idea.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Glenn Maxwell.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
That was in the press conference after he notched the
fastest ton in World Cup history. He hit one hundred
of just forty balls.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's nuts. That's actually mathematically in my head it's not possible,
but apparently it is.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
But essentially that he was seen covering his eyes and
you're like, mate, what's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
He's like, I just get a headache from the lights.
But the big show.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Put on a show and it's great because Australia, after
stumbling at the start, we're back. We're back and this
round robin stage, I got to tell you it feels
like it never ends. Nine games before we get to
It's honestly feels like what they've done with the Big Bash.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
It goes forever, it goes forever and ever ever.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
This is nuts. This is longer than the Rugby World Cup,
which went on for nine years. That's what it felt
like like. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
But what we do need to give you about the
results is that Australia beat the Netherlands by a whopping
three hundred and nine runs.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
They were all bold out for ninety. It was just tragic.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Then we beat New Zealand by five runs. Incredible. We're
getting there. We're getting there. We've got England next, ups
to Afghanistan and Bangladesh before we.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Get out of the group stage. That never ends.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
But we need to touch on the women's game because
this is one of the more remarkable and just disaster
for Alisa Heally. She has two staffies, gorgeous dogs and
if you follow either Alisa Hilly or Mitch Duck you'll
see they love their puppies. The dogs decided to get
into a rough and tumble and Alisa Hilly did what
any good owner would do and just try to separate
the two Well, one of her fingers got attacked in
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this and she ended up in hospital.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
She is going to miss again.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
We're talking about she's the Australian captain and we know
that Meg Lanning will come in and take the reins
now that she's come back from her break, but she
was the Australian captain.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
She is also a wicket keeper, very important.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Is going to miss the entire of the WBBL season
and potentially is going to miss Australia taking on India
in December.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
It's one of those freak accidents and it has massive
consequences for the Sixers in particular, but also just for
the fans because that she's the reason that you go
to watch the WBBL, So this is so unfortunate. Also,
I think there needs to be an investigation into her staffy.
Potentially maybe is a higher from an English team somewhere
(10:38):
trying to take her down. That's what I'm thinking. What's
the next years Australia has coming up. I think that
they're a plant.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Well, the good thing is Alisa Hilly plays at the SCG.
Do you know how also plays at the SCG Callum Mills,
So he was wrestling with a teammate, so at least
the dogs are an innocent party.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
When you're an adult man and.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
You wrestle with a teammate and you hurt yourself and
you might miss a season, well there's just different.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Different rules, different rules. Headline three short preparation time.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
I had to make a quick decision on what we do.
I had a look at the resources we had, the
players we had. I made a decision we've got to
go with youth. That's the best option for Australia going forward.
I made that decision and the results of the World
Cup weren't how we happed, but I still think I've
made the right decision there.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Eddie Jones speaking a few weeks ago, backing himself, doubling
down after the Wallabies were bundled out of the Rugby
World Cup in the group stages for the very first
time in their history. Now he's out of the job,
resigned no longer the head coach of Team Australia, which
I think is very very very unsurprising, Like, are we
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shocked by this?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Jelmy, No, no, But it's just been a car crash
of a ten months, two wins from nine games. Deciding
to rebuild before a World Cup when you'd signed on
for four years, rebuild after the World Cup, Eddie, it's
giving that he's got fuel, pulled it all over the house,
set fire to it and said I'd like to give
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back the keys.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Good luck with that one.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
It was one positive news story out of rugby union
over the weekend because the conclusion of the world's longest tournament,
the Rugby World Cup, did happen. South Africa up against
the All Blacks and the spring Box became the first
team in history to win four Rugby World Cups. They
defeated the All Blacks by one point after the AB's
captain Sam Kine was red carded in the first half,
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so they played with a man down for the majority
of that game. They should have got absolutely nowhere near
the spring Box, but you know, they lost by one.
It was a strong effort, but a loss is a
loss and well done, Well done South Africa.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Headline four the most viewed sport in Australia.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
The sign is correct and they should pick their gam up.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Okay, because I can hear I can just hear my
Channel seven bosses in my ear. They're kind of yelling
at the moment they're going yelling at me something about
TV ratings and they're saying something like three point five
million for NRAL, three three point eight million for AFL,
and then they're yelling really loudly that the Matilda's got
seven point one. So where are your figures coming from?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Pete?
Speaker 7 (13:14):
Now, what I said was in a season, So that's
the whole year, not just a few games like the
we It's a complete season. And tell your bosses that
there's more stations than just Channel seven, and they should
come for rugby league. They should get the state of
and then they will have the biggest sport in Australia
rather than that. What do they call it FLA or
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AFL or whatever it's called. I just forgot its name.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I could just tell you.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
They're yelling even louder.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
As you speak.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
So I think we've ready go to a commercial break.
Congratulations on being at the White House.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Not many other people did it. Well done FLA.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I think we rebrand the AFL. It should be called FLA.
Fellas open around. Peter Blandy's there as nail that jam
up the rugby league chairman.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
He has completely nailed it. Rugby league is the biggest
sport in Australia. Thank you very much. I think Australia's sport.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It's a world sport, Australian Football League.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Maybe he meant biggest in terms of physical size. That
could be it, that could be it. And rugby league
we've got you there, We've got you there.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
But you know what he is, Peter the Landis is
a marketing genius. So we need to give more context
of this. So this sign was up in Vegas because
there is going to be an exhibition.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Match of the NRL in America.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Yeah, a couple including the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
And this is the way it's being marketed.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Firstly, the players will be like I nominators tribute for
this junket.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yes please, I would like to go to Vegas.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
And it is It is cool because now with streaming
services and particularly when you see the sports that are
popular in America, you can imagine why AFL NRL are so.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Interesting to them.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
And it is a massive market that if they can
tap into, who knows how large the game will grow.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, and so the slogan adorning all of the billboards
in Vegas getting ready for rugby league to play two
games there at the start of next season, Australia's biggest
sport unleashed in Vegas.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
I think it's genius. But I would think that because
I'm a rugby league fan.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Do you know what is the biggest sport or the
National Football League in America? Is American football? See Australian
rules football, American football? Do you see what I've done there?
And at the moment, American football is taking on a
tangent that we've never seen before. They are engaging a
new audience. And it's all happening because one little lady
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with red lipstick and a billion dollars, Taylor Swift is
dating Travis Kelce and the world has gone into meltdown.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
What does this mean?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Are we simplifying things too much that you cannot be
a Taylor Swift fan and also just love NFL for
the sake of NFL?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
How did this happen?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Because it is going to be a movie, this love story,
it's coming up.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Oh, it's going to be a big deep dive.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
As my learned colleague Hamish McDonald may have alluded to
earlier on in this episode, I can be defined or
described as.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
A fan of a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Peak fangirl, and I wear that title like a badge
of honor. For me, absolutely no embarrassment. I am a fangirl.
Where some people have a specific niche that makes them
that fangirl, I have many.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
There are caverns in my mind palace of you useless
or useful information. You can be the judge that even
I don't know how I know, but I know it.
For example, I know almost every single piece of dialogue
in the classic Naughty's teen flick She's the Man. I
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can tell you.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Where all the cast of the OC are at their
lives right now, twenty years after that show aired. I
can tell you who they dated. I can tell you
how long they dated. I can tell you who they're
dating now. I can tell you their biggest successes professionally
and in life. Hello Seth Seth and Blair Waldorf.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Tick tick tick.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I can also tell you that Darren Lockyer was born
on the twenty fourth of March nineteen seventy seven. How
do I know that he hasn't played for the Brisbane
Broncos since twenty eleven, and yet it's in the mind palace.
All of that, though, pales in comparison to my encyclopedic
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knowledge of t Swift. My journey with Taylor Swift can
probably that could be the title of my autobiography. If
we're being honest, Georgie Tunney are swifty, and I would
be happy for that, because you know what, swifty. Being
one is a full time job, but it's never work.
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I arguably know the most about this woman than anyone
else and we have never met. So when she's happy,
I'm interested. When she's sad, I'm interested. When she's indifferent,
I am interested. And when she has a new partner,
I'm very interested.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
So who the hell is Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Because this is a partnership that I'm not sure about yet,
but it's taking the world by storm.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Jell me help me out. Who the heck ah is
this reality TV star? I guess he was a footballer,
first footballer turned reality star turned All American.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Goodness, my name is Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Maybe I'm a professional football player and I'm.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Getting the opportunity to date fifty fifty fifty beautiful women
from this God loving country. Sign me up, Hello, ladies.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I believe that there are some girls here that could
be the one.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
I'm in this all the way in I say, we
get to this then.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
So that is, Dear George.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
The introduction to a twenty sixteen reality TV show called
Catching Kelsey, of which our dear Travis Kelcey, who was
of course a name already then because he was playing
in the NFL, dated fifty women from fifty different states.
And you better believe that it's now going to come
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out of the woodwork everything that he's ever said in
that show. But this gives you an idea of the
sort of car that this man is. And there is
a trend at the moment on social media where Swifties
are filming their NFL loving partners and just saying, isn't
it amazing that Taylor Swift put Travis Kelcey on the map?
And these men are losing their damn mind, and rightfully so,
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because Travis Kelcey is one of the best tight ends
the NFL has ever seen.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Jelmy, I've got a question. My arm is raised.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
This will be good.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
What is a tight end?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
One of the more googled questions the week that they
started dating.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Oh gosh, So.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Titan is basically the big dutes who can run and
catch the ball.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
They can do everything.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
So all star athlete.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yeah, he's your all star, all rounder. He's not your quarterback.
He's not your glory big name player. But his combination
with Patrick Mahomes, who is one of the biggest, he's
the biggest quarterback in the league at the moment. But
he's sort of you can play the supporting role. He
has his moments where he is the star, but a
lot of it is about being everyone to everyone. Is
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the role of the tight end, and he is a
big unit. But let's give you a bit of a
context here. He was born and raised in Ohio. He's
thirty four years old because he was born in nineteen
eighty nine.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Of course he was of bloody course.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
He was drafted to.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
The Chiefs in twenty thirteen in the third round. He
was sixty third overall pick. And he's currently in his
eleventh season.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
So he's been playing American football for quite a while.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
We just need to establish here. He is a very
big name.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
He's not someone that Taylor Swift has plucked and put
on the map. He's been on a reality dating show,
but he's very very well liked.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
He's also super commercial.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
He's on a lot of advertising and most recently, and
I guess most probably contentiously, he was the face of Pfiser.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
He was advertising PISA during COVID.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Okay, which speaks on many levels in terms of one,
his marketability, but I guess also his renown and his
standing within America. See his face, you know him, You
have a connection to him so much so that the
government or PFIZA yes, want him to lead a public
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health message.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
And part of that Kelsey brand is also his brother
Jason Kelce, who's a star. He's a center and he
plays for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
So again different position, but very similar blokes.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
And last year they brought out and started doing a
podcast together called New Heights and just it's very all American,
it's very jocular. It's two blokes having a laugh. But
they actually played off against each other in last year's
Super Bowl. So imagine getting to a Super Bowl and
you've got two brothers.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Huge.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
So it was our mate Travis that came out on
top and won that Super Bowl. His brothers won one
Super Bowl. Travis Kelce is a two time Super Bowl winner.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Okay, okay, so successful, good, good successful.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
So while he may be new to the global vernacular
of non sporting fans, people that like NFL and people
that follow NFL and not scratching their heads about who
Travis Kelsey is. He's been established over a very long
period of time. He is an eight time Pro Bowler.
Did I have to google what this means? I sure
did so.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
The Pro Hell Prora.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
The Pro Bowl is an exhibition game that happens the
week before the Super Bowl, where you're elected by it's
a bit of the media, but also the fans sort
of voting who they would like to see in this
massive exhibition game.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
But if you are playing in the super Bowl, you
obviously don't play in an exhibition game at week out.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
So he's been nominated for that eight times.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
He is an All Pro player four times, which think
about the All Australian team.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Which always confuses me though, because they never play a game.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
No, So that's what this is, So this is arguably
more prestigious. Four times. He has been voted by media
and parties of the NFL that not what they're talking
about as the best tight end in the league in
twenty sixteen, in twenty eighteen, in twenty twenty, and in
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Which is a super Bowl year.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
And the thing when you mentioned Travis Kelce, you have
to mention Patrick Mahomes. He's just one of the all
time stars in terms of a quarterback, and he's only
getting better. He's on a mega deal two hundred and
ten point six million US for four years, bloody, and
that's before endorsements. And also you would see him at
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the moment on Netflix. He's got a bit of it.
I think the show is called Quarterback, but he's currently
he and his partner Brittany have got a feature. So
Patrick Mahomes a very very big deal. Can you imagine
when you are Patrick Mahomes at Arrowfield and you are
the second biggest name there, and you know what, she
might invite her friends t Swift, So all of a sudden,
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Ryan Reynolds is there, Blake Lively's there, Oh, what do
you know? Wolverine decided to come to a game. It
has just been this intersection of pop culture and football
that has seen Travis Kelce blow up globally because he's
somehow weaseled his way in to dating Taylor Swift and
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it's one of the more remarkable dating stories that you'll
ever hear. How does one get access to Taylor Swift Georgie.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Now that we know who he is very important context,
and I do think that it is pertinent because he
essentially is at the top of his game, right he
is at the top of the field. He is in
this this stratosphere when it comes to his job. So
you can only assume that that Taylor likes to be
dating successful people. So step one, he had to be
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incredible in like the you know, first percentile of all
things for her to even look at him. I would say,
I think that's fair. Then what I think has helped
the situation, which is a fact that I did not
learn for ages so many many many weeks into their
confirmed relationship, was that there's a player on Travis Kelce's
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team Kansas City whose brother is one of Taylor Swift's
backup dances.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Oh okay, there it.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Is, so in my mind there could be a lovely
little intro there, a meet cute, which you know, does
all kinds of things to me.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
I love that, I love a meet cute.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
That speculation, what do we know about his approach go on?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
We know that he went on his podcast and essentially
asked her out or explained that all he had wanted
to do. His dream was to go to her concert
and give her a friendship bracelet that he had handmade
with his phone number on it.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
And I received a bunch of them being there, but
I wanted to give Taylor swift to one with my
number on it, nor.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Your numbers in eighty seven or your phone number.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
You know it's one.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
She doesn't meet anybody, or at least she didn't want
to meet me, so I took a person off.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
She probably just hasn't gotten over the super Bowl yet.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
She's a big Eagles fan. Maybe she just meets something
up and just didn't want to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
She is an Eagles fan. I love that they know
that do.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
What the best thing is is that it was at
Arrowhead Stadium, where he's the rock star, and I think
he genuinely would have rocked up, being like, there's no Arrowhead,
I can't go. I'll like get a cheeky little heykay,
how you going? And she's like, I'm about to sing
forty four songs. Absolutely not before or after, but anyway.
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So he made this very public joke essentially saying I
had this bracelet. That's him talking to his brother I
wanted to give her my number. Then that was on
the twenty sixth of July, and the rumors start speculating.
September twenty four she attends the Chiefs game and the
world actually has a meltdown.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Let's have a listen, you know.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
I told her, I've seen you rock to Stage and Arrowhead.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
You might have to come see me rocket stage in
arrow and see which one's a little more list There's.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Some things with Traveck kind of just says it and
you're like, you don't know if it's true or not. Yeah,
I think she's coming to the game today, and then
moved about his business.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Well.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Just days after teasing the idea of Taylor Swift coming
to a Chiefs game, the megastar herself was in attendance
for the Chiefs beatdown of the Bear, sitting right next
to Mama Kelsey and loving every minute of it.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Oh, it's also such a Swifty trope that Taylor Swift
goes to meet the mom super early. So when I
knew that that had happened too, I was concerned again
because I was like, oh, hold on a second, this
is looking far more legitimate than I had given any
kind of credence to this beforehand, and when she rocked up,
I was like, it's not a thing, It's not a thing.
Then she freaking showed up at Arrowhead and I was like,
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oh no.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
And that other voice in that clip was Patrick Mahomes
essentially being like sometimes Travis Kelsey says things and you
just go, oh, like, you don't buy into it. And
then all of a sudden she was at a game.
But the red Again, this is all very pop culture.
We've gone so far. We've talked about his credentials, we've
talked about we don't need to talk about Taylor Swift's
credentials because you already know them. So when the Taylor
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economics hit the NFL and when Taylor Swift fans go,
we're going to care about this bloke. We're buying in
because we're buying in because she's next to his mum.
She's banging on the glass saying let effing go during
a game, she's got a beer in her hand, she's
doing a handshake with Patrick Mahomes's Britney.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Do you know why? I know that? It was on
seven News.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
With the lead news story, But what is also whirlwind
is the numbers and the effect that Taylor Swift is
having on the NFL.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Also, I would say on his personal performance too, because
he can say it's not affecting my performance.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
I can compartmentalize all of this. He has played out of.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
His skin every single game that she has attended, so
has his team. They are on this winning streak right now.
And I know that people will say that's down to
you know, years and years of coaching and development and
skill training and blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
It's because of Taylor Swift and the coach, Andy Reid,
has come out and basically said she can hang around
because he's the yards differential yards gained between when she's
not there and when he is there. Basically, he's a
big old peacock trying to show off and she can stay.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Is a response. But oh, breaking news, breaking news.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Breaking news, breaking news producer, James, what is it?
Speaker 8 (29:54):
The Broncos have just defeated the Kansas City Chiefs twenty
four to nine, and the report is in, Taylor is not.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
There, is not the go there you go.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Big Red gonna be furious, Yes, Big Red gonna Andy Reid's.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Gonna call Tay and say, Babe, cancel the concert.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
In the four games that Taylor Swith has been in attendance,
Kelsey is averaging one hundred and eight receiving yards per game.
The games she hasn't been there is averaged just forty
six point five yards a game.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
And the case is rested. Thank you, your honor.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
This is the Swifty effect the viewership. So let's she
rocked up to the game against the Bears. Then she
was the first one.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
That was the first one. Then she went to Chiefs
versus the Jets.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Which was gigantic.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
The viewership of that game was twenty seven million, making
it the most watched Sunday TV show since the last
Super Bowl according to NBC Sports.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Which is nuts because to win a Sunday slot on
the weekend like Sunday Football is their biggest game. Like
it's gigantic, that's the game of the round.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
She's then attended the Broncos, the LA Chargers. All of
this has led to swift Mania. There is analytics in
the game where they're like, hello, Swifty fans, let us
explain NFL for you. There are downs and they're still
trying to explain the league, And honestly, I'm trying to
get my head around it because there is some really
convoluted rules. Oh yeah, yeah, but viewership amongst teen girls
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spiked by fifty three percent. They doubled the amount of
teenage girls watching NFL. That's according to Sunday Night Football,
and in NBC, the audience among women age eighteen to
twenty four increased by twenty four percent, while viewership of
women over the age of thirty five increased thirty four percent.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
It also meant that there was a collective growth of
an approximate viewership of more than two million female viewers
who were all just tuning in to see if Taylor
Swift is at a football game and maybe enjoy the
football as well. I don't want to make it mutually exclusive.
There could totally be NFL fans, Kansas City fans who's
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dreams have all come true because they're also Swifties, and
they're like, this is ultimate, this is peak everything.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Imagine Kelsey's number eighty seven Gursey, of which Taylor Swift
was seen supporting a friendship bracelet with the number eighty
seven on it. It was reported a long long time
ago that there was a four hundred percent spike in sales.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I'm going to say that that's massive unders.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
Yeah, I reckon, it's I reckon. It's definitely more than that.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
He also added, and it would be more than this now,
I think as well, but more than three hundred and
eighty thousand followers to his Instagram account. And this is
already remember a superstar of America, Like, he is well
known in America, but now he is globally known. And
the Instagram followers have have shown that.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
And the swifties are descending on the games hoping to
catch a glimpse of the otherwise very private superstars. So
stub Hub have reported a threefold increase in people trying
to get tickets to Chiefs games.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I mean, the Chiefs have sold more tickets. They went
on to sell more tickets in a single day than
they had since the start of the twenty twenty three season.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
After she attended that Jets game.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
And these are the reigning Super Bowl champions.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yeah, yes they're They're not some low flying team that
needs support at the moment.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
They are flying.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
But I also think it's interesting that there is just
such an infatuation with who she dates. And we discussed this,
of course, because as soon as I saw this, I
was like, Oh, George's gonna hate it. You're going to
like all of this about is that you're gonna hate it.
And the thing that you said to me was he
is the first person who's dating Taylor Swift who seems
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to be aware that he's dating Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
That's right, as in, he's the first.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
One that's like, oh on the damn lottery, like look
at me, like I'm just living and it's I just
want to see her happy after a lot of stuff.
Or you listen to some of her songs and the
reason why she is so popular is she doesn't just
sing about the highs and the good things. There's so
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much in there that's relatable.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
And I remember, the best songs are the biggest cuts,
the deepest cuts.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
They're the best ones, seriously, And there's something about when
we were younger. I don't believe that Mandy Moore wasn't
popular in high school. I also don't believe that Britney
Spears had a hard time dating. But there's something about
Taylor where when she does dress up as the nerd,
you buy it.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
Yeah, that's her, that's her. She's in it.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I think as she really does like him and she's
having a whole lot of fun as her unofficial best friend.
I don't love the relationship because I just he's so
he's so American, which I can both I'm a contradiction.
I can be like, it's wonderful that he's treating her
like that. She's Taylor Swift and she's the be all
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and end all, and he seems confident enough in himself
to be able to take all of the publicity and
everything that comes along with that.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
But it's too American for me.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
See for mine, it's the fairy tale.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
You couldn't find the more quintessential, Like he's not a quarterback,
but it's I don't know, there's something so wholesome about her,
like covering her mouth because she's whispering something to his mum.
And I know part of that might all be a show.
But what we are seeing is NFL, which is such
an intricate sport globally becoming deciding to dumb itself down
(35:25):
in some levels to try to welcome people into the sport.
And we find that when people are extreme fans, they
keep the sport.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
Oh they do, they do.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
You either get it or you don't. And you get
that a lot with Premier League, like you either get
it or you don't, and if you're not.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
And you weaponize that knowledge exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
And I just find that with the way that Taylor
Swift has created this vacuum, there are explainers on tiktoks
that are like Swifties welcome, Here's what you need to know.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Yes, here's what you need to understand about the game.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
So overall, then do you think it's a good thing?
Do you think that this is this is a positive
for the NFL.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
An increased viewership of fifty percent by teenage girls is
something that marketing here in Australia or any sport around
the world can only dream of. Yeah, engaging young women
in sport is the gap because then they're going to
follow it their whole lives. And if they feel welcome
at the table or they feel like they can go
(36:25):
to a game, we're a guernsey and cheer for it.
You're seeing yourself, yes, And I think that's the really cool.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Like the thing about Taylor Swift is the reason why
people love her music is they identify with her. Yes,
So if she's all of a sudden a football fan,
I can be a football fan.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I do want the media and the networks to take
it down a peg. Though I can understand why they
want to focus and have a Taylor cam and all
of that.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
It's so fun, I get.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
It, but some football fans are our rape, yes.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
But they need to just come it down now like
we've had that now that was the Jets game, and
I mean Taylor brought Blake Lively, Ryan Red, it's Hugh Jackman, like,
you know, she's bringing her A list friends along as well,
So of course you want to watch that, but just
in future rounds if she's there, which you know Kansas
City want her to be there because they can't win
without her. I just don't want it to become so
(37:16):
much of a Taylor Taylor Taylor Taylor effect, because you know,
our girl's got enough attention.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Is showing one woman twenty times excessive? And this is
not the first time that we've seen, like I think
it's important partners of footballers, particularly in NFL or big
like we just Posh and.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Becks, Oh yeah, Gizelle and Tom Brady.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Yes, this is not the first time that if a
partner shows up to support their footballing spouse, there is
a lot of attention Gizelle opened an Olympics I know,
and at.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
The time was worth double what Tom Brady was worth.
So yes, yes, this is not.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
The first time there's perhaps been a superstar power like this,
but I would argue that it's the first time and
it is the first time we've seen such a shift
in the metrics.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Yes, and that is that is the Taylor economy.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
That's the Taylor economy. I love it for her, I
love it for the NFL.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
I hate it for me. Tell me time for another
fun fact?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Woo?
Speaker 6 (38:25):
Also, wow, your enthusiasm for the fun fact segment?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
What do you mean I love a fun fact? Well,
that was an authentic woho.
Speaker 6 (38:36):
Okay, authentic woo.
Speaker 8 (38:37):
Who.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
I'm going to raise it because I've got actually one.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
You know me, I'm not a woo girl. That's as
much as you get.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
I have got one and a half fun facts for
you today. I'm starting with whoo. I'm starting with the
point five of a fun fact, which is Kansas City
Chiefs played a stadium called Arrowhead. When Travis Kelce runs
onto the field at our Head, he does this thing
where he pulls his arm back like and makes emotion
like he's shooting an arrow. Taylor Swift has a song
(39:07):
called The Archer. Has she forecast this? Has it always
been in the stars? Probably not, but that's the way
Swifty's mind works.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
Anyway. That was the point five of.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
A fun Factor. Get off TikTok, George, that's mine. I
don't think I've.
Speaker 6 (39:22):
Seen that anywhere. TikTok don't come for me.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Actual fun fact, though, is that when we say that
American football is kind of a big deal in the
United States of America, we mean it because it is
almost impossible to get season tickets for certain clubs. So
you're born into a family. That means necessarily you are
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born into a football club a lot of the times,
and you go straight onto the waitlist for that club
so you can try and get to the games to
support your team. The Green Bay Packers have the longest
waitlist for.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
Season tickets in the NA.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Fans could live to one hundred and never receive them,
never get a season ticket.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
That is how long the wait list is.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
So from burse you're on the list, you're in the line,
and others don't fall off the perchin off, but you.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Don't get the opportunity.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
That's right in a hundred years, one hundred years.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
There's such a big deal that obviously when you get
a season ticket, you have to do everything in your
power to hold onto it. One Green Bay Packers fan
went so far as to sell his own blood to
pay for season tickets.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Wait, so I've heard the phrase I'd sell a kidney.
Speaker 6 (40:45):
He has, so he said, take my other life force
as well.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
He already has the golden ticket in order to retain
the ticket.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
The ticket and take for it. Yep, he sold plasma.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
He sold his blood, pints and pints of blood. A
Wisconsin man, Jim Becker, started selling his blood because him
and his wife have eleven kids and he refused to
take any money away from the kids. So he's like,
I need to outsource this. I need to think of
a second income that is going to fund my season tickets.
Speaker 6 (41:18):
Here have my blood.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
And why it was actually so successful to Jim himself
for his health. One got to keep his tickets, got
to see his beloved team. Two turns out he had
a rare blood disease that he did not know, which
is like you blood away because he had.
Speaker 6 (41:36):
Too much iron in his blood.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
If he wasn't donating pint after pint after pint, it
would have built up.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
And he could have died.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
So basically the message is for anyone who's on the
MCC wait list, suck it up and there is worse
scenarios because I feel like that's I was trying to
think of the Australian equivalent, and if you are in
Melbourne or you're Victorian having an MCC membership for the
mcg and or the amount of people that you've heard
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that put their kids on the wait list, it's like,
get them into Kindie and get them on the MCC list.
And will we ever see a time when I don't know,
like there's just such a small amount of memberships for MCC,
but there's a massive stadiums in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Yeah, I know, yeah, And that's the demand of the tickets.
That's how high the demand is.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Isn't that nuts?
Speaker 1 (42:29):
I mean it sounds like, you know, I was gonna say,
isn't that nuts? How could we possibly relate every single
Australian that spends seven hours trying to get a ticket
to Taylor swifts Era's concert.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Well Woven Back, You're always going to do it.
Speaker 6 (42:40):
Thank you so much. I was proud of myself.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Thank you anyway.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
Are you an NFL fan that is baffled by the
fact that Taylor Swift has brought Travis Kelce into limelight
when he was already a star, or are you a
Taylor Swift fan that's going, who the hell is this bloke?
I'm really interested as to who this.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Is getting in the Australian and.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Tell me who is like all four of trailer or
are your team me who's agnostic until next week. Be
a swifty but also be a good sport m hm.
Two Good Sports would like to acknowledge the traditional owners
of the land on which we record this podcast that
will rundery people. This land was never seated, always was,
always will be.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hello and welcome to.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Two Good Sports sports news told differently. I'm Georgie Tanney.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And I'm Abby Jomian.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
On today's show, Georgie cannot contain her excitement because, dear listener,
we were meant to commence our first record of this
podcast in July.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Do you know why we couldn't?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Because one little Swifty out of this duo chose to
boost the global economy and fly to the US to
see Miss Taylor Allison Swift in concert. And fun fact,
it's sure as hell, wasn't me. Georgie is the biggest
Swifty you'll ever meet, so much so that on her
other little side job, the Project, they questioned her about
(00:52):
why swift Mania just takes over a body.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Here's a clip.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
All of you can actually sit at the desk with
me right now because I'm just radiating nerves and anxiety
and desperation.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
You like this stuff generally, but what's the difference with like.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
What's.
Speaker 6 (01:10):
She's She's everything to me.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I'm like I am insane, passionate, crazy, whatever, sperlative to a.
Speaker 7 (01:18):
Lot of things, but more so about her.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
More so about Tay.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I have gone to every single concert that she has
ever come to Australia, so I've grown up with her,
like I've my first concert.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
That I went to see her.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I think I was like sixteen, like when Love Story
came out, and then it's like I have followed her
ever since then. And also it's a spectacle, I would say,
I mean, I Got was lucky enough to go to
Harry Styles when he was here, and it was a
really fun time, like it was, you know, two hours
of fun. But it's not like a spectacle. He doesn't
put on a huge show, whereas it is a stadium.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Got it appears as though it kind of physically takes
you over when you talk about getting tickets. Yeah, no
it does. Yeah, it really a cult.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
We already are.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
The reason I chose to use that clip is it's
not just in the safe space of this podcast that
Georgie goes full swifty. It is on national television with
Hamish McDonald looking at her with one raised eyebrow going
you are slightly unhinged, but George. Today's topic was just
built for you, because firstly, how was the concert? Because
half of Australia tried to get tickets and far less
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actually got a chance to go to the errors tour?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
What was it like in the US?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Everyone who has managed to get their hands on those
hot little tickets for next year, well done and brace yourself.
Start preparing now, Start doing your cardio, Start rationing water
because you have to be. You need to be dehydrated
to get through that concert, because you don't want to
miss a second. You've got to plan your toilet breaks.
It goes for three and a half hours. It was
(02:48):
one of the highlights of my life. And I mean
that seriously. When she first appeared, I burst into tears
because I was so overwhelmed. I was like, I can't
believe that that's Taylor Swift again. And I have gone
to all of her other concerts as well, but it
had just been so long between them, and she's released
like a million albums since the last time she toured,
(03:08):
so it was everything. There is this phenomenon on social
media where swifties are like I think I've got amnesia.
I'm too overwhelmed about the concert, Like I don't remember anything.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
I have that to a certain degree.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Some of the some parts of the concert are a
little bit like ify for me, because I think I
was just too overwhelmed and I wasn't really living in
the moment. But the bits that stand out are just
burnt into my memory forever, and it's just such a
cherished memory for me.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
It's amazing. It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
And if you're wondering, how on earth is this the
intro for our sports podcast, Dear Listen, we haven't just
let Georgie go rogue because this year, in addition to
becoming a billionaire, single handedly boosting the economy with her
tour that shut down Ticketmaster, having the highest grossing concert
film of all time that was just a couple of
weeks ago, and causing an earth quake at one of
(04:01):
her concerts.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
She's not a god. She is a mere woman.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
But t Swift has made the NFL Taylor's Version, and
we are not exaggerating here. They changed their Twitter slash
x handle to say Taylor's Version. One of the biggest
sporting leagues in the world has been taken over by
swift Mania, and we sat back and said, no, we
can't do it too indulgent?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
To indulgent?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Now it is everywhere, and we are unleashing our expert
who's been studying for three decades because George is ready.
The result is the NFL's infiltrating mainstream media and pop
culture here in Australia and around the world at a
heightened frenzy usually only reserved for the Super Bowl halftime show.
Because Travis kelce who is a superstar of the NFL,
(04:48):
decided just to throw some bait and somehow has caught
Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And we're not over this story.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
So who is Travis kelcey the new boyfriend of Taylor Swift?
What impact is Tay having on the viewing audience of
American football?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Do we love trailer? Yes, they already have a nickname.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh, we're gone deep dive and I'm so excited because
there's a glow coming from my dear friend and we
are ready. We're gonna tell you things about Travis kelce
and about Taylor Swift that you don't know, guaranteed because
there are layers here and a dating show so weird anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Headlines, Ah, headline one, Hey razzo a little bit fortunate perhaps, Oh,
here goes Sam Carr throw on gold car.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Blasts it into the roof of the.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Nat Sam Kerr has scored her fourth fourth hat trick
for the Matilda's on the team's way to an eight
nil route of the Philippines in game two of their
second round of a Limp qualifiers.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Gell me this was fun.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Fun for Ossie fans, probably not so fun for Philippines fans,
but even then, it was attacking footballs and they got
to see some great goals, and they got to see
Sam kers score three and Caitlin Ford score three and
Mary Fowler score our goal, and also Claire Wheeler score
her first goal for the Matilda's, so it was an
attacking route.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
It was super fun.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
The players were having a great time and importantly it
does put us to the top of our group, which means,
I mean we're gonna make it through to the third
round of Olympic qualifiers, but only two I believe only
two teams from the category of Asia are selected to
go to the Olympics, so it's very important that we
do maintain our top spot on the group so we
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can cement one of those spots.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
What was incredible about this for me is it was
in front of a sixty thousand sellout crowd, a capacity
OPTAs stadium, and that's just incredible. And particularly like Sam Kerr,
she's West Australian. And one thing I can tell you
about Perthian's gee we claim our own. Most of us
have like at least tattooed in our brain something about
Samka and something about dann Ricardo because we will claim
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them forever. And the fact that she got to do
this at a stadium with tens of thousands and we
know and we've seen the journey of what the Matildas
used to play in front of as recently as twenty nineteen,
and now this Olympic campaign marks their eleventh consecutive sold
out stadium in Australia.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You watch that and go, that would be really fun.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Eight Tonier should be a mercy rule anyway, No headline
two in just.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
When the late show was going on, like you stood
with your eyes like shut with their hands or is
it because you're feeling a little ill or do those
late kind of things always affect you? Well? I had
something like that light show similar happened at per Stadium
during a big Besh game and I just found like
it gave me shocking headaches and it takes me a
while from my eyes to readjust And I just think
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it's the dumbest idea for cricketers. When you've got this
theme you quickly and your eyes take so long to adjust,
and I think we just lost a wicket and made
the first aim. Lights when shot like nuts, and I
was the other end and took me ages to get
my eyes to go again and felt like I had
a headache. So I just I just try and cover
up as much as I possibly can and ignore it.
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But it's a horrible, horrible idea.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Glenn Maxwell.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
That was in the press conference after he notched the
fastest ton in World Cup history. He hit one hundred
of just forty balls.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's nuts. That's actually mathematically in my head it's not possible,
but apparently it is.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
But essentially that he was seen covering his eyes and
you're like, mate, what's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
He's like, I just get a headache from the lights.
But the big show.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Put on a show and it's great because Australia, after
stumbling at the start, we're back. We're back and this
round robin stage, I got to tell you it feels
like it never ends. Nine games before we get to
It's honestly feels like what they've done with the Big Bash.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
It goes forever, it goes forever and ever ever.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
This is nuts. This is longer than the Rugby World Cup,
which went on for nine years. That's what it felt
like like. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
But what we do need to give you about the
results is that Australia beat the Netherlands by a whopping
three hundred and nine runs.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
They were all bold out for ninety. It was just tragic.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Then we beat New Zealand by five runs. Incredible. We're
getting there. We're getting there. We've got England next, ups
to Afghanistan and Bangladesh before we.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Get out of the group stage. That never ends.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
But we need to touch on the women's game because
this is one of the more remarkable and just disaster
for Alisa Heally. She has two staffies, gorgeous dogs and
if you follow either Alisa Hilly or Mitch Duck you'll
see they love their puppies. The dogs decided to get
into a rough and tumble and Alisa Hilly did what
any good owner would do and just try to separate
the two Well, one of her fingers got attacked in
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this and she ended up in hospital.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
She is going to miss again.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
We're talking about she's the Australian captain and we know
that Meg Lanning will come in and take the reins
now that she's come back from her break, but she
was the Australian captain.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
She is also a wicket keeper, very important.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Is going to miss the entire of the WBBL season
and potentially is going to miss Australia taking on India
in December.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
It's one of those freak accidents and it has massive
consequences for the Sixers in particular, but also just for
the fans because that she's the reason that you go
to watch the WBBL, So this is so unfortunate. Also,
I think there needs to be an investigation into her staffy.
Potentially maybe is a higher from an English team somewhere
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trying to take her down. That's what I'm thinking. What's
the next years Australia has coming up. I think that
they're a plant.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Well, the good thing is Alisa Hilly plays at the SCG.
Do you know how also plays at the SCG Callum Mills,
So he was wrestling with a teammate, so at least
the dogs are an innocent party.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
When you're an adult man and.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
You wrestle with a teammate and you hurt yourself and
you might miss a season, well there's just different.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Different rules, different rules. Headline three short preparation time.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
I had to make a quick decision on what we do.
I had a look at the resources we had, the
players we had. I made a decision we've got to
go with youth. That's the best option for Australia going forward.
I made that decision and the results of the World
Cup weren't how we happed, but I still think I've
made the right decision there.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Eddie Jones speaking a few weeks ago, backing himself, doubling
down after the Wallabies were bundled out of the Rugby
World Cup in the group stages for the very first
time in their history. Now he's out of the job,
resigned no longer the head coach of Team Australia, which
I think is very very very unsurprising, Like, are we
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shocked by this?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Jelmy, No, no, But it's just been a car crash
of a ten months, two wins from nine games. Deciding
to rebuild before a World Cup when you'd signed on
for four years, rebuild after the World Cup, Eddie, it's
giving that he's got fuel, pulled it all over the house,
set fire to it and said I'd like to give
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back the keys.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Good luck with that one.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
It was one positive news story out of rugby union
over the weekend because the conclusion of the world's longest tournament,
the Rugby World Cup, did happen. South Africa up against
the All Blacks and the spring Box became the first
team in history to win four Rugby World Cups. They
defeated the All Blacks by one point after the AB's
captain Sam Kine was red carded in the first half,
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so they played with a man down for the majority
of that game. They should have got absolutely nowhere near
the spring Box, but you know, they lost by one.
It was a strong effort, but a loss is a
loss and well done, Well done South Africa.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Headline four the most viewed sport in Australia.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
The sign is correct and they should pick their gam up.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Okay, because I can hear I can just hear my
Channel seven bosses in my ear. They're kind of yelling
at the moment they're going yelling at me something about
TV ratings and they're saying something like three point five
million for NRAL, three three point eight million for AFL,
and then they're yelling really loudly that the Matilda's got
seven point one. So where are your figures coming from?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Pete?
Speaker 7 (13:14):
Now, what I said was in a season, So that's
the whole year, not just a few games like the
we It's a complete season. And tell your bosses that
there's more stations than just Channel seven, and they should
come for rugby league. They should get the state of
and then they will have the biggest sport in Australia
rather than that. What do they call it FLA or
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AFL or whatever it's called. I just forgot its name.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I could just tell you.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
They're yelling even louder.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
As you speak.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
So I think we've ready go to a commercial break.
Congratulations on being at the White House.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Not many other people did it. Well done FLA.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I think we rebrand the AFL. It should be called FLA.
Fellas open around. Peter Blandy's there as nail that jam
up the rugby league chairman.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
He has completely nailed it. Rugby league is the biggest
sport in Australia. Thank you very much. I think Australia's sport.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It's a world sport, Australian Football League.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Maybe he meant biggest in terms of physical size. That
could be it, that could be it. And rugby league
we've got you there, We've got you there.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
But you know what he is, Peter the Landis is
a marketing genius. So we need to give more context
of this. So this sign was up in Vegas because
there is going to be an exhibition.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Match of the NRL in America.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Yeah, a couple including the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
And this is the way it's being marketed.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Firstly, the players will be like I nominators tribute for
this junket.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yes please, I would like to go to Vegas.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
And it is It is cool because now with streaming
services and particularly when you see the sports that are
popular in America, you can imagine why AFL NRL are so.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Interesting to them.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
And it is a massive market that if they can
tap into, who knows how large the game will grow.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, and so the slogan adorning all of the billboards
in Vegas getting ready for rugby league to play two
games there at the start of next season, Australia's biggest
sport unleashed in Vegas.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
I think it's genius. But I would think that because
I'm a rugby league fan.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Do you know what is the biggest sport or the
National Football League in America? Is American football? See Australian
rules football, American football? Do you see what I've done there?
And at the moment, American football is taking on a
tangent that we've never seen before. They are engaging a
new audience. And it's all happening because one little lady
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with red lipstick and a billion dollars, Taylor Swift is
dating Travis Kelce and the world has gone into meltdown.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
What does this mean?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Are we simplifying things too much that you cannot be
a Taylor Swift fan and also just love NFL for
the sake of NFL?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
How did this happen?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Because it is going to be a movie, this love story,
it's coming up.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Oh, it's going to be a big deep dive.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
As my learned colleague Hamish McDonald may have alluded to
earlier on in this episode, I can be defined or
described as.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
A fan of a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Peak fangirl, and I wear that title like a badge
of honor. For me, absolutely no embarrassment. I am a fangirl.
Where some people have a specific niche that makes them
that fangirl, I have many.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
There are caverns in my mind palace of you useless
or useful information. You can be the judge that even
I don't know how I know, but I know it.
For example, I know almost every single piece of dialogue
in the classic Naughty's teen flick She's the Man. I
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can tell you.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Where all the cast of the OC are at their
lives right now, twenty years after that show aired. I
can tell you who they dated. I can tell you
how long they dated. I can tell you who they're
dating now. I can tell you their biggest successes professionally
and in life. Hello Seth Seth and Blair Waldorf.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Tick tick tick.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I can also tell you that Darren Lockyer was born
on the twenty fourth of March nineteen seventy seven. How
do I know that he hasn't played for the Brisbane
Broncos since twenty eleven, and yet it's in the mind palace.
All of that, though, pales in comparison to my encyclopedic
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knowledge of t Swift. My journey with Taylor Swift can
probably that could be the title of my autobiography. If
we're being honest, Georgie Tunney are swifty, and I would
be happy for that, because you know what, swifty. Being
one is a full time job, but it's never work.
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I arguably know the most about this woman than anyone
else and we have never met. So when she's happy,
I'm interested. When she's sad, I'm interested. When she's indifferent,
I am interested. And when she has a new partner,
I'm very interested.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
So who the hell is Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Because this is a partnership that I'm not sure about yet,
but it's taking the world by storm.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Jell me help me out. Who the heck ah is
this reality TV star? I guess he was a footballer,
first footballer turned reality star turned All American.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Goodness, my name is Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Maybe I'm a professional football player and I'm.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Getting the opportunity to date fifty fifty fifty beautiful women
from this God loving country. Sign me up, Hello, ladies.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I believe that there are some girls here that could
be the one.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
I'm in this all the way in I say, we
get to this then.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
So that is, Dear George.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
The introduction to a twenty sixteen reality TV show called
Catching Kelsey, of which our dear Travis Kelcey, who was
of course a name already then because he was playing
in the NFL, dated fifty women from fifty different states.
And you better believe that it's now going to come
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out of the woodwork everything that he's ever said in
that show. But this gives you an idea of the
sort of car that this man is. And there is
a trend at the moment on social media where Swifties
are filming their NFL loving partners and just saying, isn't
it amazing that Taylor Swift put Travis Kelcey on the map?
And these men are losing their damn mind, and rightfully so,
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because Travis Kelcey is one of the best tight ends
the NFL has ever seen.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Jelmy, I've got a question. My arm is raised.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
This will be good.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
What is a tight end?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
One of the more googled questions the week that they
started dating.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Oh gosh, So.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Titan is basically the big dutes who can run and
catch the ball.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
They can do everything.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
So all star athlete.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yeah, he's your all star, all rounder. He's not your quarterback.
He's not your glory big name player. But his combination
with Patrick Mahomes, who is one of the biggest, he's
the biggest quarterback in the league at the moment. But
he's sort of you can play the supporting role. He
has his moments where he is the star, but a
lot of it is about being everyone to everyone. Is
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the role of the tight end, and he is a
big unit. But let's give you a bit of a
context here. He was born and raised in Ohio. He's
thirty four years old because he was born in nineteen
eighty nine.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Of course he was of bloody course.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
He was drafted to.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
The Chiefs in twenty thirteen in the third round. He
was sixty third overall pick. And he's currently in his
eleventh season.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
So he's been playing American football for quite a while.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
We just need to establish here. He is a very
big name.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
He's not someone that Taylor Swift has plucked and put
on the map. He's been on a reality dating show,
but he's very very well liked.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
He's also super commercial.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
He's on a lot of advertising and most recently, and
I guess most probably contentiously, he was the face of Pfiser.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
He was advertising PISA during COVID.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Okay, which speaks on many levels in terms of one,
his marketability, but I guess also his renown and his
standing within America. See his face, you know him, You
have a connection to him so much so that the
government or PFIZA yes, want him to lead a public
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health message.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
And part of that Kelsey brand is also his brother
Jason Kelce, who's a star. He's a center and he
plays for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
So again different position, but very similar blokes.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
And last year they brought out and started doing a
podcast together called New Heights and just it's very all American,
it's very jocular. It's two blokes having a laugh. But
they actually played off against each other in last year's
Super Bowl. So imagine getting to a Super Bowl and
you've got two brothers.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Huge.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
So it was our mate Travis that came out on
top and won that Super Bowl. His brothers won one
Super Bowl. Travis Kelce is a two time Super Bowl winner.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Okay, okay, so successful, good, good successful.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
So while he may be new to the global vernacular
of non sporting fans, people that like NFL and people
that follow NFL and not scratching their heads about who
Travis Kelsey is. He's been established over a very long
period of time. He is an eight time Pro Bowler.
Did I have to google what this means? I sure
did so.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
The Pro Hell Prora.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
The Pro Bowl is an exhibition game that happens the
week before the Super Bowl, where you're elected by it's
a bit of the media, but also the fans sort
of voting who they would like to see in this
massive exhibition game.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
But if you are playing in the super Bowl, you
obviously don't play in an exhibition game at week out.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
So he's been nominated for that eight times.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
He is an All Pro player four times, which think
about the All Australian team.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Which always confuses me though, because they never play a game.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
No, So that's what this is, So this is arguably
more prestigious. Four times. He has been voted by media
and parties of the NFL that not what they're talking
about as the best tight end in the league in
twenty sixteen, in twenty eighteen, in twenty twenty, and in
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Which is a super Bowl year.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
And the thing when you mentioned Travis Kelce, you have
to mention Patrick Mahomes. He's just one of the all
time stars in terms of a quarterback, and he's only
getting better. He's on a mega deal two hundred and
ten point six million US for four years, bloody, and
that's before endorsements. And also you would see him at
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the moment on Netflix. He's got a bit of it.
I think the show is called Quarterback, but he's currently
he and his partner Brittany have got a feature. So
Patrick Mahomes a very very big deal. Can you imagine
when you are Patrick Mahomes at Arrowfield and you are
the second biggest name there, and you know what, she
might invite her friends t Swift, So all of a sudden,
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Ryan Reynolds is there, Blake Lively's there, Oh, what do
you know? Wolverine decided to come to a game. It
has just been this intersection of pop culture and football
that has seen Travis Kelce blow up globally because he's
somehow weaseled his way in to dating Taylor Swift and
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it's one of the more remarkable dating stories that you'll
ever hear. How does one get access to Taylor Swift Georgie.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Now that we know who he is very important context,
and I do think that it is pertinent because he
essentially is at the top of his game, right he
is at the top of the field. He is in
this this stratosphere when it comes to his job. So
you can only assume that that Taylor likes to be
dating successful people. So step one, he had to be
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incredible in like the you know, first percentile of all
things for her to even look at him. I would say,
I think that's fair. Then what I think has helped
the situation, which is a fact that I did not
learn for ages so many many many weeks into their
confirmed relationship, was that there's a player on Travis Kelce's
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team Kansas City whose brother is one of Taylor Swift's
backup dances.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Oh okay, there it.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Is, so in my mind there could be a lovely
little intro there, a meet cute, which you know, does
all kinds of things to me.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
I love that, I love a meet cute.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
That speculation, what do we know about his approach go on?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
We know that he went on his podcast and essentially
asked her out or explained that all he had wanted
to do. His dream was to go to her concert
and give her a friendship bracelet that he had handmade
with his phone number on it.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
And I received a bunch of them being there, but
I wanted to give Taylor swift to one with my
number on it, nor.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Your numbers in eighty seven or your phone number.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
You know it's one.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
She doesn't meet anybody, or at least she didn't want
to meet me, so I took a person off.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
She probably just hasn't gotten over the super Bowl yet.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
She's a big Eagles fan. Maybe she just meets something
up and just didn't want to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
She is an Eagles fan. I love that they know
that do.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
What the best thing is is that it was at
Arrowhead Stadium, where he's the rock star, and I think
he genuinely would have rocked up, being like, there's no Arrowhead,
I can't go. I'll like get a cheeky little heykay,
how you going? And she's like, I'm about to sing
forty four songs. Absolutely not before or after, but anyway.
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So he made this very public joke essentially saying I
had this bracelet. That's him talking to his brother I
wanted to give her my number. Then that was on
the twenty sixth of July, and the rumors start speculating.
September twenty four she attends the Chiefs game and the
world actually has a meltdown.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Let's have a listen, you know.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
I told her, I've seen you rock to Stage and Arrowhead.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
You might have to come see me rocket stage in
arrow and see which one's a little more list There's.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Some things with Traveck kind of just says it and
you're like, you don't know if it's true or not. Yeah,
I think she's coming to the game today, and then
moved about his business.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Well.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Just days after teasing the idea of Taylor Swift coming
to a Chiefs game, the megastar herself was in attendance
for the Chiefs beatdown of the Bear, sitting right next
to Mama Kelsey and loving every minute of it.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Oh, it's also such a Swifty trope that Taylor Swift
goes to meet the mom super early. So when I
knew that that had happened too, I was concerned again
because I was like, oh, hold on a second, this
is looking far more legitimate than I had given any
kind of credence to this beforehand, and when she rocked up,
I was like, it's not a thing, It's not a thing.
Then she freaking showed up at Arrowhead and I was like,
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oh no.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
And that other voice in that clip was Patrick Mahomes
essentially being like sometimes Travis Kelsey says things and you
just go, oh, like, you don't buy into it. And
then all of a sudden she was at a game.
But the red Again, this is all very pop culture.
We've gone so far. We've talked about his credentials, we've
talked about we don't need to talk about Taylor Swift's
credentials because you already know them. So when the Taylor
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economics hit the NFL and when Taylor Swift fans go,
we're going to care about this bloke. We're buying in
because we're buying in because she's next to his mum.
She's banging on the glass saying let effing go during
a game, she's got a beer in her hand, she's
doing a handshake with Patrick Mahomes's Britney.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Do you know why? I know that? It was on
seven News.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
With the lead news story, But what is also whirlwind
is the numbers and the effect that Taylor Swift is
having on the NFL.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Also, I would say on his personal performance too, because
he can say it's not affecting my performance.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
I can compartmentalize all of this. He has played out of.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
His skin every single game that she has attended, so
has his team. They are on this winning streak right now.
And I know that people will say that's down to
you know, years and years of coaching and development and
skill training and blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
It's because of Taylor Swift and the coach, Andy Reid,
has come out and basically said she can hang around
because he's the yards differential yards gained between when she's
not there and when he is there. Basically, he's a
big old peacock trying to show off and she can stay.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Is a response. But oh, breaking news, breaking news.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Breaking news, breaking news producer, James, what is it?
Speaker 8 (29:54):
The Broncos have just defeated the Kansas City Chiefs twenty
four to nine, and the report is in, Taylor is not.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
There, is not the go there you go.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Big Red gonna be furious, Yes, Big Red gonna Andy Reid's.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Gonna call Tay and say, Babe, cancel the concert.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
In the four games that Taylor Swith has been in attendance,
Kelsey is averaging one hundred and eight receiving yards per game.
The games she hasn't been there is averaged just forty
six point five yards a game.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
And the case is rested. Thank you, your honor.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
This is the Swifty effect the viewership. So let's she
rocked up to the game against the Bears. Then she
was the first one.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
That was the first one. Then she went to Chiefs
versus the Jets.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Which was gigantic.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
The viewership of that game was twenty seven million, making
it the most watched Sunday TV show since the last
Super Bowl according to NBC Sports.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Which is nuts because to win a Sunday slot on
the weekend like Sunday Football is their biggest game. Like
it's gigantic, that's the game of the round.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
She's then attended the Broncos, the LA Chargers. All of
this has led to swift Mania. There is analytics in
the game where they're like, hello, Swifty fans, let us
explain NFL for you. There are downs and they're still
trying to explain the league, And honestly, I'm trying to
get my head around it because there is some really
convoluted rules. Oh yeah, yeah, but viewership amongst teen girls
(31:20):
spiked by fifty three percent. They doubled the amount of
teenage girls watching NFL. That's according to Sunday Night Football,
and in NBC, the audience among women age eighteen to
twenty four increased by twenty four percent, while viewership of
women over the age of thirty five increased thirty four percent.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
It also meant that there was a collective growth of
an approximate viewership of more than two million female viewers
who were all just tuning in to see if Taylor
Swift is at a football game and maybe enjoy the
football as well. I don't want to make it mutually exclusive.
There could totally be NFL fans, Kansas City fans who's
(32:00):
dreams have all come true because they're also Swifties, and
they're like, this is ultimate, this is peak everything.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Imagine Kelsey's number eighty seven Gursey, of which Taylor Swift
was seen supporting a friendship bracelet with the number eighty
seven on it. It was reported a long long time
ago that there was a four hundred percent spike in sales.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I'm going to say that that's massive unders.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
Yeah, I reckon, it's I reckon. It's definitely more than that.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
He also added, and it would be more than this now,
I think as well, but more than three hundred and
eighty thousand followers to his Instagram account. And this is
already remember a superstar of America, Like, he is well
known in America, but now he is globally known. And
the Instagram followers have have shown that.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
And the swifties are descending on the games hoping to
catch a glimpse of the otherwise very private superstars. So
stub Hub have reported a threefold increase in people trying
to get tickets to Chiefs games.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I mean, the Chiefs have sold more tickets. They went
on to sell more tickets in a single day than
they had since the start of the twenty twenty three season.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
After she attended that Jets game.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
And these are the reigning Super Bowl champions.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yeah, yes they're They're not some low flying team that
needs support at the moment.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
They are flying.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
But I also think it's interesting that there is just
such an infatuation with who she dates. And we discussed this,
of course, because as soon as I saw this, I
was like, Oh, George's gonna hate it. You're going to
like all of this about is that you're gonna hate it.
And the thing that you said to me was he
is the first person who's dating Taylor Swift who seems
(33:37):
to be aware that he's dating Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
That's right, as in, he's the first.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
One that's like, oh on the damn lottery, like look
at me, like I'm just living and it's I just
want to see her happy after a lot of stuff.
Or you listen to some of her songs and the
reason why she is so popular is she doesn't just
sing about the highs and the good things. There's so
(34:03):
much in there that's relatable.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
And I remember, the best songs are the biggest cuts,
the deepest cuts.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
They're the best ones, seriously, And there's something about when
we were younger. I don't believe that Mandy Moore wasn't
popular in high school. I also don't believe that Britney
Spears had a hard time dating. But there's something about
Taylor where when she does dress up as the nerd,
you buy it.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
Yeah, that's her, that's her. She's in it.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I think as she really does like him and she's
having a whole lot of fun as her unofficial best friend.
I don't love the relationship because I just he's so
he's so American, which I can both I'm a contradiction.
I can be like, it's wonderful that he's treating her
like that. She's Taylor Swift and she's the be all
(34:48):
and end all, and he seems confident enough in himself
to be able to take all of the publicity and
everything that comes along with that.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
But it's too American for me.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
See for mine, it's the fairy tale.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
You couldn't find the more quintessential, Like he's not a quarterback,
but it's I don't know, there's something so wholesome about her,
like covering her mouth because she's whispering something to his mum.
And I know part of that might all be a show.
But what we are seeing is NFL, which is such
an intricate sport globally becoming deciding to dumb itself down
(35:25):
in some levels to try to welcome people into the sport.
And we find that when people are extreme fans, they
keep the sport.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
Oh they do, they do.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
You either get it or you don't. And you get
that a lot with Premier League, like you either get
it or you don't, and if you're not.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
And you weaponize that knowledge exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
And I just find that with the way that Taylor
Swift has created this vacuum, there are explainers on tiktoks
that are like Swifties welcome, Here's what you need to know.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Yes, here's what you need to understand about the game.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
So overall, then do you think it's a good thing?
Do you think that this is this is a positive
for the NFL.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
An increased viewership of fifty percent by teenage girls is
something that marketing here in Australia or any sport around
the world can only dream of. Yeah, engaging young women
in sport is the gap because then they're going to
follow it their whole lives. And if they feel welcome
at the table or they feel like they can go
(36:25):
to a game, we're a guernsey and cheer for it.
You're seeing yourself, yes, And I think that's the really cool.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Like the thing about Taylor Swift is the reason why
people love her music is they identify with her. Yes,
So if she's all of a sudden a football fan,
I can be a football fan.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I do want the media and the networks to take
it down a peg. Though I can understand why they
want to focus and have a Taylor cam and all
of that.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
It's so fun, I get.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
It, but some football fans are our rape, yes.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
But they need to just come it down now like
we've had that now that was the Jets game, and
I mean Taylor brought Blake Lively, Ryan Red, it's Hugh Jackman, like,
you know, she's bringing her A list friends along as well,
So of course you want to watch that, but just
in future rounds if she's there, which you know Kansas
City want her to be there because they can't win
without her. I just don't want it to become so
(37:16):
much of a Taylor Taylor Taylor Taylor effect, because you know,
our girl's got enough attention.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Is showing one woman twenty times excessive? And this is
not the first time that we've seen, like I think
it's important partners of footballers, particularly in NFL or big
like we just Posh and.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Becks, Oh yeah, Gizelle and Tom Brady.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Yes, this is not the first time that if a
partner shows up to support their footballing spouse, there is
a lot of attention Gizelle opened an Olympics I know,
and at.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
The time was worth double what Tom Brady was worth.
So yes, yes, this is not.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
The first time there's perhaps been a superstar power like this,
but I would argue that it's the first time and
it is the first time we've seen such a shift
in the metrics.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Yes, and that is that is the Taylor economy.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
That's the Taylor economy. I love it for her, I
love it for the NFL.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
I hate it for me. Tell me time for another
fun fact?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Woo?
Speaker 6 (38:25):
Also, wow, your enthusiasm for the fun fact segment?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
What do you mean I love a fun fact? Well,
that was an authentic woho.
Speaker 6 (38:36):
Okay, authentic woo.
Speaker 8 (38:37):
Who.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
I'm going to raise it because I've got actually one.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
You know me, I'm not a woo girl. That's as
much as you get.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
I have got one and a half fun facts for
you today. I'm starting with whoo. I'm starting with the
point five of a fun fact, which is Kansas City
Chiefs played a stadium called Arrowhead. When Travis Kelce runs
onto the field at our Head, he does this thing
where he pulls his arm back like and makes emotion
like he's shooting an arrow. Taylor Swift has a song
(39:07):
called The Archer. Has she forecast this? Has it always
been in the stars? Probably not, but that's the way
Swifty's mind works.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
Anyway. That was the point five of.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
A fun Factor. Get off TikTok, George, that's mine. I
don't think I've.
Speaker 6 (39:22):
Seen that anywhere. TikTok don't come for me.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Actual fun fact, though, is that when we say that
American football is kind of a big deal in the
United States of America, we mean it because it is
almost impossible to get season tickets for certain clubs. So
you're born into a family. That means necessarily you are
(39:46):
born into a football club a lot of the times,
and you go straight onto the waitlist for that club
so you can try and get to the games to
support your team. The Green Bay Packers have the longest
waitlist for.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
Season tickets in the NA.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Fans could live to one hundred and never receive them,
never get a season ticket.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
That is how long the wait list is.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
So from burse you're on the list, you're in the line,
and others don't fall off the perchin off, but you.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Don't get the opportunity.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
That's right in a hundred years, one hundred years.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
There's such a big deal that obviously when you get
a season ticket, you have to do everything in your
power to hold onto it. One Green Bay Packers fan
went so far as to sell his own blood to
pay for season tickets.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Wait, so I've heard the phrase I'd sell a kidney.
Speaker 6 (40:45):
He has, so he said, take my other life force
as well.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
He already has the golden ticket in order to retain
the ticket.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
The ticket and take for it. Yep, he sold plasma.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
He sold his blood, pints and pints of blood. A
Wisconsin man, Jim Becker, started selling his blood because him
and his wife have eleven kids and he refused to
take any money away from the kids. So he's like,
I need to outsource this. I need to think of
a second income that is going to fund my season tickets.
Speaker 6 (41:18):
Here have my blood.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
And why it was actually so successful to Jim himself
for his health. One got to keep his tickets, got
to see his beloved team. Two turns out he had
a rare blood disease that he did not know, which
is like you blood away because he had.
Speaker 6 (41:36):
Too much iron in his blood.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
If he wasn't donating pint after pint after pint, it
would have built up.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
And he could have died.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
So basically the message is for anyone who's on the
MCC wait list, suck it up and there is worse
scenarios because I feel like that's I was trying to
think of the Australian equivalent, and if you are in
Melbourne or you're Victorian having an MCC membership for the
mcg and or the amount of people that you've heard
(42:06):
that put their kids on the wait list, it's like,
get them into Kindie and get them on the MCC list.
And will we ever see a time when I don't know,
like there's just such a small amount of memberships for MCC,
but there's a massive stadiums in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Yeah, I know, yeah, And that's the demand of the tickets.
That's how high the demand is.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Isn't that nuts?
Speaker 1 (42:29):
I mean it sounds like, you know, I was gonna say,
isn't that nuts? How could we possibly relate every single
Australian that spends seven hours trying to get a ticket
to Taylor swifts Era's concert.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Well Woven Back, You're always going to do it.
Speaker 6 (42:40):
Thank you so much. I was proud of myself.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Thank you anyway.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
Are you an NFL fan that is baffled by the
fact that Taylor Swift has brought Travis Kelce into limelight
when he was already a star, or are you a
Taylor Swift fan that's going, who the hell is this bloke?
I'm really interested as to who this.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Is getting in the Australian and.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Tell me who is like all four of trailer or
are your team me who's agnostic until next week. Be
a swifty but also be a good sport m hm.
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