Travis Kelce‘s Kansas Metropolis Chiefs are getting within the spirit of the post-season with a wink and a nod to Taylor Swift. The NFL group dropped a cheeky film trailer on Wednesday spoofing a traditional made-for-TV rom-com, that includes a Donna Kelce cameo and loads of easter egg references to the “Karma” singer.
Hallmark Channel mainstays Tyler Hynes and Janel Parrish star in Falling for Soccer, which kicks off the group’s “‘Tis the Postseason” marketing campaign. The title, which will also be seen on a movie show marquee within the video, is a transparent reference to Swift’s Evermore monitor, “‘Tis the Damn Season.”
The storyline follows a jaded girl (Parrish) who hates the NFL’s postseason after she was jilted on the alter by a former love who ditched their marriage ceremony in favor for playoff tickets. Cue the meet-cute with a good-looking man (Hynes) who works in a Chiefs merch store and has a romanticized notion for the “magic” of the postseason.
When his secret affiliation with the group is revealed to her, Parrish’s character seeks solace in a diner with a waitress performed by Travis’ mother. Donna, after all, can also be the mom of Philadelphia Eagles middle Jason Kelce.
“How can he love me and football?” Parrish laments.
“You know, the heart can be in two places at once,” Donna assures her. Simply after, Chiefs offensive lineman Creed Humphrey seems as a brief order cook dinner to declare that “order number 13” is up — a shout-out to Swift’s well-known fortunate quantity.
The video consists of cameos from plenty of notable Chiefs followers, together with a narration from Rob Riggle and an look by Melissa Etheridge. Chiefs mascot KC Wolf additionally makes a cameo, together with rapper Tech N9ne, singer-songwriter Kameron Marlowe, radio announcer Mitch Holthus, NFL media persona Kimmi Chex, and Chiefs gamers Trey Smith, Tommy Townsend and Dante Corridor.
Among the many different sly references to Swift is a scene by which Hynes organizes friendship bracelets in a store show.
“Football and Taylor Swift are new things to me,” Hynes admits in an interview with Selection. “I grew up without the money to afford organized sports and was a skateboarder, but going to Kansas, the folks who were taking care of us there — the whole PR team, everyone — I was genuinely moved and touched by this whole experience and how sweet these people were. They gave us jerseys with our names on them. And it was really, really beautiful. I went home and started watching the Netflix documentary series [Quarterback], fast forwarding to all of Patrick Mahomes’ parts.”
The promo comes forward of the Chiefs’ upcoming playoff recreation towards the Miami Dolphins on Saturday, amid Travis’ ongoing romance with the pop star. Her appearances at a slew of his current video games has prompted a frenzy amongst followers and sports activities media alike.
ESPN persona Stephen A. Smith on Wednesday got here to Swift’s protection towards critics who say she’s a distraction.
“She’s going to support a dude to show up at a football game and the camera’s on her, that ain’t her fault,” Smith shouted in his trademark indoor shouting voice. “Taylor Swift is that girl. Let’s show some respect!”
And to anybody suggesting or merely inferring that she attended Kelce’s video games to generate consideration for her Eras Tour?
Once more, Smith’s not shopping for it.
“It’s not like she used the games to bump up the concerts. Oh no! Those kids were going to her concerts whether the NFL was promoting her or not,” Smith exclaimed. “Taylor Swift is that girl. Let’s show some respect. She probably is gonna have a positive impact on Travis Kelce’s performance, OK? I’m not trying to disrespect Taylor Swift.”
Swift herself has mentioned she’s conscious of the criticism surrounding how the NFL has dealt with protection of her appearances at a handful of current video games.
“I don’t know how they know what suite I’m in,” she informed Time in her December Particular person of the Yr interview. “There’s a camera, like, a half-mile away, and you don’t know where it is, and you have no idea when the camera is putting you in the broadcast, so I don’t know if I’m being shown 17 times or once.”
She added, “I’m just there to support Travis” and “I have no awareness of if I’m being shown too much and pissing off a few dads, Brads, and Chads.”
Nonetheless, Swift famous that she is totally having fun with her time studying the game.
“Football is awesome, it turns out,” she joked. “I’ve been missing out my whole life.”
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