{"id":58142,"date":"2023-12-01T01:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T01:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/01\/taylor-swift-praised-by-nfl-star-for-bringing-new-audience-to-football\/"},"modified":"2023-12-01T01:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T01:30:01","slug":"taylor-swift-praised-by-nfl-star-for-bringing-new-audience-to-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/01\/taylor-swift-praised-by-nfl-star-for-bringing-new-audience-to-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Praised by NFL Star for Bringing New Audience to Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>NFL Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez is praising <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/taylor-swift\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a><span> for the new audience she is bringing to football.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During a recent appearance on <\/span><em><span>The Kelly Clarkson Show<\/span><\/em><span>, the retired tight-end, 47, spoke about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/travis-kelce\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travis Kelce<\/a><span> breaking his Kansas City Chiefs record for all-time receiving yards and the impact that Swift, 32, has had on the NFL&#8217;s viewership.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s great that Taylor&#8217;s done this for the NFL,&#8221; he said after joking about a recent unexpected fan interaction in which a 10-year-old girl approached him in an airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I was like, &#8216;Oh, how cool, I&#8217;m getting so popular that a 10-year-old girl [wants to talk to me],'&#8221; Gonzalez shared. &#8220;She goes, &#8216;Hi, Is your name Tony? Do you know Travis Kelce?'&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;She [Swift] brought a whole new audience, it&#8217;s been great,&#8221; Gonzalez continued.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of Swifties out there watching now,&#8221; Clarkson, 41, agreed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The conversation, which Gonzalez posted on Instagram Thursday morning, started when Jennifer Garner &#8212; also appearing as a guest on the show &#8212; asked the former football player about his experience playing for the Chiefs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;So you were in Kansas City, pre-Taylor,&#8221; Garner, 51, joked.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Same team,&#8221; Gonzalez replied.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Did he just break your record? Kelce?&#8221; Clarkson asked, prompting Garner to interject: &#8220;What? Do you have to be bringing that up?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The show&#8217;s host went on to clarify that she only mentioned it because she had seen Gonzalez post about Kelce breaking the Chiefs receiving yards record.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a message posted to X on Nov. 6, the former NFL player congratulated Kelce for his accomplishment on the field, writing:\u00a0&#8220;Congrats and well earned my friend! Keep it going @tkelce.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;He&#8217;s such a good dude,&#8221; Gonzalez told Clarkson and Garner before the conversation turned to the &#8220;Cruel Summer&#8221; singer and her army of fans becoming football viewers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/taylor-swift-is-praised-by-nfl-hall-of-famer-tony-gonzalez-for-bringing-a-new-audience-to-football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez is praising Taylor Swift for the new audience she is bringing to football.\u00a0 During a recent appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, the retired tight-end, 47, spoke about Travis Kelce breaking his Kansas City Chiefs record for all-time receiving yards and the impact that Swift, 32, has had on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[174,21,20,53,999],"class_list":{"0":"post-58142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment-tonight","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-taylor-swift","12":"tag-travis-kelce"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}