Fox Sports pundit Colin Cowherd on Tuesday took a dig at those complaining about singer Taylor Swift’s recent presence in the National Football League (NFL), claiming the criticism says more about “strange, lonely, insecure men” than the world superstar.
In a nearly four-minute rant on Cowherd’s Fox Sports Radio show “The Herd,” he criticized those who criticize Swift’s relationship with Kansas City Chiefs football player Travis Kelce and the attention Swift has received during the NFL games she attends .
“There are a lot of really weird, lonely, insecure men out there,” Cowherd said. “The fact that a pop star — the biggest pop star in the world — meets a star tight end who had one of his greatest games in history, and a network puts them on the air for a short time, that bothers you. .. what does that say about your life?”
Cowherd accused those who say they “just want to watch football” of “lying,” noting that broadcasts don’t show actual games for much of the action anyway.
“Football TV is not just football. In fact, the ads for four hours before the Super Bowl will be widely watched. Did you know that statistically in a three-and-a-half-hour NFL playoff broadcast or regular season broadcast, only 18 minutes is actual football?” Cowherd said, referring to coaching clippings, fan clips, commercials and reviews.
Cowherd pointed to a New York Times report last week that said Swift typically appears on screen for less than 25 seconds over the course of shows that are more than three hours long.
Her final appearance in Sunday’s Chiefs game against the Ravens, in which Kelce broke the NFL record for career postseason receptions, lasted 32 seconds, the Times reported. More than half of that, 17 seconds, was an internal promotion for CBS Network’s upcoming broadcast of the Grammy Awards.
It makes sense that CBS would want to cross-promote the ultra-famous pop star before the Grammys air, Cowherd said, discussing how he’s watched the network he works for — Fox Sports — “stick people on telecasts.”
Cowherd listed a string of celebrities, all men, who have appeared at sporting events, including singers Eminem and Drake, actors Matthew McConaughey and Jack Nicholson and film director Spike Lee.
“But there’s a talented and beautiful woman on the air — one who would never pay attention to single men, and that bothers them,” he said. “There’s a statistic — a little embarrassing for you sad boys — that 50 percent of men have never had real intimacy with a woman. That means the other 50 percent have multiple intimate relationships with women, and those who don’t are angry, sad, and lonely, and often misogynistic and resentful of women who haven’t given them the time they feel they deserve.
“Yet again judging people by the stupid things that bother them… This anger says nothing about Taylor Swift, it says everything about the men who bother her,” he concluded.
The apparent anger at Swift’s presence at NFL games is further fueled by swirling conspiracy theories centered on the baseless idea that the league is rigging games to ensure that the pop singer and her boyfriend’s team will succeed and win the Super Bowl and in will ultimately approve President Biden’s re-election bid.
Questions about Swift’s involvement in politics swirled Monday after The New York Times published a report about Biden aides vying for the “All Too Well” singer’s support as the campaign turns its focus to November’s general election.
The singer has yet to speak out about supporting Biden’s 2024 bid, but previously expressed her support for him in the 2020 presidential election during an interview with V magazine. And last year, an Instagram post from Swift, directing her followers to the non-partisan nonprofit Vote.org prompted 35,000 new voter registrations.
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