Taylor Swift: Chiefs’ TV ratings DROP four million despite pop superstar’s appearance at MetLife… but game against Jets still draws in over 20 MILLION viewers on NBC
- Swift saw Kelce play for the second time at MetLife Stadium on Sunday
- But her latest performance wasn’t as well watched as last week’s at Arrowhead
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The hysteria surrounding Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce continued Sunday night when the pop superstar showed up at MetLife Stadium to watch the Chiefs beat the Jets.
But compared to last week’s game against the Bears, when Swift set the Internet on fire by seeing Kelce play at Arrowhead for the first time, Kansas City’s ratings dropped significantly this time around.
As first reported by TMZSunday’s star-studded event in New Jersey somehow fell short of last Sunday’s astonishing NFL ratings, despite celebrity friends Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman and more joining Swift in her suite at MetLife.
An estimated 20.31 million viewers tuned in to NBC to watch the Chiefs hold on for a nail-biting win against the Jets, which continues to speak volumes about the unique level of interest this burgeoning new relationship is generating.
However, that figure also amounts to four million less than the 24.32 that saw Swift cheer on Kelce and the Chiefs against the Bears last week.
Taylor Swift’s latest appearance at a Chiefs game failed to generate the same interest
However, the win over Chicago was shown on a different channel after being shown on FOX. It also started at a more accessible time of 4:25pm compared to Sunday evening’s 8:20pm start.
A number of die-hard football fans took to social media to criticize NBC for their coverage of MetLife, where the camera regularly cut away to photos of Swift and her A-list friends.
One wrote: ‘Please don’t play Taylor Swift on your TV drinking game… you’re going to be hospitalized if you aren’t already.’
Another added, “These Taylor Swift cutaways during Chiefs games need to go.”