Thin-skinned men triggered by Taylor Swift at NFL games should get a grip

[Jilly_in_VA]

The multiple Grammy winner was all over social media ahead of Saturday’s game, the NFL’s main accounts included. Got prominent play during the game, too, with NBC’s crew panning to them in a suite, cheering big plays. When the musical superstar was shown on the Jumbotron, fans in the stadium went into a frenzy.

Yet Eminem’s presence at the Detroit Lions playoff game last weekend didn’t prompt the overheated vitriol that Taylor Swift’s appearances at Kansas City Chiefs games do.

Imagine that.

“That's the thing that's disenchanting people with sports now,” Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy, now a broadcaster, whined last week. “There's so much on the outside coming in — entertainment value and different things taking away from what really happens on the field.”

It’s funny — and by funny I mean tiresome and lazy — how a high-profile female fan wrecks the game, while the prominent visibility of male celebrities or team owners at sporting events is accepted without complaint. Celebrated, even. Jerry Jones gets no shortage of airtime even when people aren’t trying to decipher his reactions to his team’s latest playoff meltdown. Matthew McConaughey’s presence at University of Texas games is considered kitschy and fun. Jack Nicholson was as central a figure in the Lakers’ Showtime era as Magic and Kareem.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2024/01/20/taylor-swift-chiefs-kelce-nfl-critics-dungy-thin-skinned/72272165007/

Seriously. And yet, when a MAN shows up at a women's soccer or basketball game, unless he's someone's dad, the announcers get all drooly---unless they're present or former players.

[LakeArenal]

1. I love the power Taylor Swift has over these testosterone enhanced men.

Maybe Dungy needs some penis light therapy

And… oh yeah, Swift is the one that turned football into a national grift.

[GopherGal]

6. If your enjoyment of the game is harmed by the fact that Taylor is also enjoying it...

maybe the problem isn't with Taylor, fellas. Take a look in the mirror, dude.

[GiqueCee]

7. I've always referred to it as...

... testosterone poisoning.

Squealing and whining about an attractive young woman attending a sporting event to cheer for her significant other is REALLY scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Of course, focusing on such witless histrionics is just what the corporate media do to distract those with ADOS (Attention Deficit/ Oh, Shiny!) from paying any attention to the fact that the aforementioned corporate media are not doing their jobs, like keeping us informed about shit that actually matters.
But, as long we allow the oligarchs to control the media, they'll control whatever information we're allowed to see.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. Dungy wasted lots of talent with his chickenshit style.

Don't care what he has to say about football or entertainment.

Taylor Swift has not interfered with me watching a game. She obviously makes a lot of people happy.

[niyad]

3. "grungy" dungy perhaps should be glad that Ms. Swift is drawing so much

attention. From some things that I hear from my sports-loving ftiends, this brutal exercise in physical trauma needs all the help it can get.

Just wondering how many of the people almost frothing at the mouth in outrage about her are magats.

[EYESORE 9001]

4. I guess most of those crybabies are also MAGAts

Female performers at the Super Bowl are nothing new, after all.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Your Friends Opinions Are Dubious

Per Sports Business Journal, revenues has gone up 5%, then 11%, then 8% over the last 3 years.
Per Forbes:

The NFL remains the most valuable sports league in the world thanks to guaranteed television deals that could be worth more than $126 billion by 2033. Professional football has 30 teams among the top 50, the same number as last year.

And, from ESPN:

NFL regular-season games averaged 17.9 million viewers in 2023, tied for the second highest since averages were first tracked in 1995. Buoyed by increases of at least 24% in two of the five packages, the first year of the league's new television contracts saw a total increase of 7% from last season.

I'm thinking they don't need much help.
As to the topic of the OP: I don't get the complaint. Football is entertainment, just like Ms. Swift. There's no conflict or distraction at all. If Dungy is distracted, then he lacks ficus.

[multigraincracker]

5. Boomer for Swifties here.

Lover her.

[aggiesal]

8. Tony Dungy is a right winger. ...

So it's no wonder he's complaining about disenchanting.

[Jilly_in_VA]

10. Funny thing

i know someone who had Dungy as a student in freshman English. Said he was a bright, respectful guy. She is appalled that he grew up to be such a wingnutter.

[aggiesal]

12. His support for GW McIdiot was sickening. n/t

[wolfie001]

9. I was on Reddit a coupla days ago.....

.....I know, I know.....Anyhoo, there was a post on Travis Kelce's brother retiring and I quick strolled through all the paean's about this great Philly center. On and on. Of course, I had to post that if not for Taylor, no one outside Philly would have even noticed. Other than a handful of NFL diehards. The reaction was like a snowflake avalanche. Mission accomplished!!!

[twodogsbarking]

11. Some men cannot handle a female's success. Tony Dunghole for one.

[Ferrets are Cool]

13. Dungy lost me a long time ago

Just a "get off my lawn" old man.

[Rebl2]

14. I so agree!

They loved it when Nicholson or any well known men show up at games-no big deal. A few well known actors show up at Chiefs games occasionally and never hear about it, but oh OMG Taylor Swift shows up and she is ruining football. Sick of this attitude of these snowflake fans and sports commentators.