Nikki Glaser is bringing her Taylor Swift fandom and her Chiefs obsession to NBC’s latest “Sunday Night Football” spot, a pregame video set to air before Kansas City’s matchup with the Colts.
NBC Sports tapped the comedian for a Chiefs-Taylor Swift-themed piece that leans into the way national opinion has shifted around Kansas City. Glaser opens by talking about the backlash that followed the Chiefs’ run of three Super Bowl titles in five years, the kind of success that turned plenty of fans elsewhere against them and fueled the bogus idea that league officials were helping Kansas City.
She also points to the low point that followed, when the Chiefs stumbled to a 6-11 record last season and missed the playoffs, a slide that made a lot of people happy.
“When you’re on top of your game, everybody roots for your downfall,” Glaser says in the video. “People love a winner - until they win too much.
People want dynasties to die and for champs to become chumps. And when that downfall finally comes, it hurts like a Tush Push you weren’t expecting.
But without the downfall, you don’t get the thing that people love most of all: The comeback.
“And for Chiefs Kingdom, the comeback starts now. You can never count out the Chiefs.
Are you seriously not starting (Patrick) Mahomes and (Travis) Kelce in your fantasy leagues this year? Oh, so you love losing?
OK. You think you’re done seeing Andy Reid in chicken commercials?
I don’t want to live in that world, and you know (Cris) Collinsworth is gonna keep gushing over Mahomes changing his arm angle. I mean boy crushes like that are forever.”
The spot also folds in the familiar Collinsworth laugh that fans hear whenever Kansas City is on “Sunday Night Football.”
Swift’s “Ready for It?” plays in the background, and Swift herself comes up as part of the joke-filled rollout.
Glaser, wearing a sequined No. 87 Chiefs jersey that says Taylor’s husband on the back instead of Kelce’s name, makes the case that the singer has become part of the Arrowhead landscape.
“And it’s safe to say the world’s greatest singer-songwriter is now a permanent fixture at Arrowhead,” Glaser says. “And I speak for all Swifties when I say we want more cutaways.
So here we go, Kansas City. Tonight we take on the Colts.
Before you know it, we’ll be back on top, and then the rest of you can go back to hating us all over again.”
NBC Sports said the video will run at 7:10 p.m. on Sunday.
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