2023 NFL Thread

Travis Kelce and the Chiefs are seeing major betting action thanks to Taylor Swift

Jon Hoefling, USA TODAY

Mon, October 2, 2023 at 4:03 PM PDT·4 min read

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't, right? That's the saying, isn't it? Well, Taylor Swift fans are putting that age old adage to work as the NFL continues to gain newfound fans amid the speculation that Swift and Kansas City Chiefs' star tight end Travis Kelce are romantically involved.

After Swift made an appearance during the Chiefs' Week 3 game against the Chicago Bears, Travis Kelce jersey sales rose by 400 percent.

After she made an appearance on Sunday Night Football yesterday though, the Swifties are turning to their bookies, when they will learn how fickle a mistress gambling can be.

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Swift effect: How much did bettors put on Travis Kelce?
A lot. Enough to make a sportsbook cry tears of joy, perhaps. According to the latest data points from Tipico Sportsbook, there was a 27 percent increase on overall bets from Week 3 to Week 4 on the Chiefs. The Chiefs also saw a 25 percent increase on total moneyline and spread bets from last week.

But that's just the Chiefs. Kelce was the real draw. The seven-time Pro Bowler saw an uptick of 115 percent, over twice as many player prop bets placed on him between this week and last. He also saw a 122 percent increase in Travis Kelce anytime touchdown bets.

Now, that's all well and good, but couldn't that be a coincidence? Maybe. I mean, the Jets had given up three touchdowns to tight ends over the previous two weeks and even allowed one against the Chiefs, although it was Noah Gray, not Kelce.

However, an increase in bets of this magnitude is almost impossible to replicate under any circumstances. Clearly, there was other forces at play.

Outside of the Chiefs game, which received 23 percent of all wagers with Tipico, the next most-wagered-on game was the Patriots-Cowboys game, with nine percent. We know that the Cowboys have the largest fanbase of any team in America. Yet, their number of bets was far fewer, less than half of the Chiefs. If that doesn't detail the massive impact Taylor Swift has left on the NFL community, I don't know what does.

Oh, and the game itself was the most viewed show (yes, literally any show on Sundays) since the Super Bowl. No big deal.



Did these wagers on Kelce pay off?
Most of them, no. The two most popular player prop bets on DraftKings last night were "Kelce anytime touchdown scorer" and "Kelce long reception over 22 yards." That latter bet was a boosted promotion by DraftKings in honor of Taylor Swift's 2012 song "22."

Neither of those bets hits though. Kelce put up an uncharacteristically mediocre night in New York, recording just six catches for sixty yards, no touchdowns, and a long of 16 as the entire Chiefs' offense really struggled to get going throughout the entire game.

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When will the Chiefs and Travis Kelce play again?
For those of us who weren't deterred by losing money on Kelce this week, there will be more opportunities as we prepare for Week 5 of the NFL season. The Chiefs' (3-1) next game is slated for Sunday, October 8, at 4:25 p.m. ET/1:25 p.m. PT. They will be on the road, taking on the Minnesota Vikings (1-3).

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I see the Kim Bassinger character from The Natural ALL over this.

She’ll dump him (like EVERY other sucker she has dated) the minute he becomes irrelevant or ceases to increase HER exposure.

Like I used to tell panic - while I do think she has a few catchy tunes, she’s HIGHLY overrated talent wise, a good deal of her songs sound the same and almost every one of them is about former boyfriends.

And she’s not even that good looking.

GO DODGERS!!!

Conservatives Roasted After Claiming Taylor Swift Is Secretly 'Trans' With Bizarre Conspiracy

Conservatives seem to be furious about Swift's rumored romance with Travis Kelce—and they've decided that she must be a trans woman.

Peter Karleby

Oct. 04, 2023

Conservatives, especially the far-right kind, have never met a conspiracy theory they wouldn't immediately embrace with all their might. Just look at that whole JFK-Jr-returning-from-the-dead thing.

And when it comes to right-wing bugaboos, nothing seems to get their goat quite like the existence of transgender people. Naturally, the two have melded in the most bizarre way possible—so-called "transvestigators."

These are people who claim to be able to suss out who is and is not trans, and they've set their sights on all kinds of celebrities for all kinds of inane reasons. Their latest suspect? One Miss Taylor Swift.

You read that right. Conservatives now think Taylor Swift is trans, and they're all over X, aka Twitter, posting "evidence."



Yep, far-right weirdos obsessed with transgender people are convinced Taylor Swift is secretly a trans woman. Why? Because they can just tell, you see.

In one tweet, a conservative posited that because Swift's boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, took a knee during the national anthem at a recent NFL game, Swift must have male genitalia.

Other tweets, like the one below, used physical characteristics that are supposed indicators of sex and gender.

The tweet claimed that the fact that Taylor Swift's ring finger is longer than her index finger means she's actually a man—a methodology for determining such things with no basis in fact whatsoever.

Then there's the fact that she's 33, childless, and "basically the most successful woman of our time."

To the conservative above, Swift is obviously trans and "poisoning young girls to hate men." But, to be fair, he also said it's because "her face does not look feminine to me either, something is off." Okay, well, in that case!

But the one that managed to take the cake was the theory that Travis Kelce's mom, Donna, who sat with Swift at a recent Chiefs game, is secretly Taylor Swift's beard—because she's the "perfect companion for a gay," whatever that means.

This, he claimed, is proof that Taylor Swift is "a trans agent placed by LGBT government," a thing that does not exist. There are 13 openly LGBTQ+ people in Congress. Thirteen.

As always, Taylor Swift is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the far-right's obsession with sussing out who may and may not be trans. Just last week a "transvestigator" and QAnon devotee pled guilty to following and threatening the life of a member of Congress he was convinced is secretly trans.

On social media, people definitely had lots to say about the bizarre and absurd Taylor Swift trans theories.



Here's hoping that, if she responds to this rumor, Swift takes a page out of Lady Gaga's book, who famously couldn't be bothered to deny it when Anderson Cooper asked her about rumors she is trans and secretly has male genitalia, telling him, "maybe I do. Would it be so terrible?"

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At least we now know why panic was / is SO infatuated with her / him.

Based on his tales of dressing up and performing Broadway tunes and dances for his folks, it now makes perfect sense.

GO DODGERS!!!

How could I not? He’d have to be in his 30’s, maybe 40’s by now. Wonder if he still works for his lawyer pops and still lives at home?

GO DODGERS!!!

Cooper Cupp is back for the Rams. 118 yards receiving. Rams still lost 23-14 to Philly. The traffic out there must be hell.

Down a hill - yes.