Taylor Swift didn’t need to be inside Lumen Field on Sunday to get dragged into the conversation. The Seahawks were the ones doing the damage on the scoreboard, but they also made sure the postgame trolling had a pop-culture twist after their 20-3 rout of the Chiefs on Sunday night.
Seattle didn’t just beat Kansas City. It handed the Chiefs their first loss of the season, then turned around and took a swipe at Travis Kelce’s wife with a social media post built around a friendship bracelet. The bracelet read “Seahawks Win,” and the caption leaned into one of Swift’s songs.
The timing made the message land even harder. Swift usually appears at Chiefs home games, where she reportedly feels more comfortable with the team protecting her.
On the road, that’s a different story, and Sunday night would have been a rough environment with the Seahawks and Chiefs tied together through Kenneth Walker. Instead, Kansas City’s offense never got going and managed just three points.
Kelce at least gave the box score a small bright spot. He finished with four catches for 44 yards in the loss, and that was enough to move him past Tony Gonzalez for the most combined regular-season and playoff receiving yards by a tight end in NFL history.
Seattle’s postgame jab also circled back to the bracelet saga from before Kelce and Swift were married. Kelce once tried to give Swift a friendship bracelet with his number on it, and it didn’t exactly go smoothly at the time. Three years later, they are married, and Seattle’s message after the win was: “End Game.”
That phrase is the title of a track from Swift’s 2017 album, “Reputation.”
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