Skilled scorching take performance-artist Skip Bayless, who for years has been going after LeBron James, has set his sights on a brand new scores booster: Taylor Swift.
Yesterday, because the reigning Tremendous Bowl champion Kansas Metropolis Chiefs have been being crushed by the lowly Las Vegas Raiders, the Fox Sports activities speaking head discovered time to tweet concerning the vital stuff.
“Feels prefer it’s about time to name Taylor Swift a distraction. What do you suppose, Patrick? Andy? How about you, Travis?” Bayless wrote on Twitter, name-checking Chiefs’ QB Patrick Mahomes, coach Andy-Reid and tight finish Travis Kelce, who additionally occurs to be Swift’s boyfriend.
Swift was within the constructing for the sport, as she has been a number of instances this yr, watching from a luxurious suite with Brittany Mahomes and Santa Claus. (Sure, it appears even Santa’s a Swiftie.)
It’s an previous play from the Bayless scorching take playbook. The Fox Sports activities host is a protracted struggling Dallas Cowboys fan. Years in the past, Bayless attributed the poor efficiency of Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo to his then-relationship with Jessica Simpson. Simpson additionally favored attending her boyfriend’s video games.
On a 2016 episode of Undisputed, Bayless stated of a the Romo-era Cowboys, “I used to be additionally very down — in that interval — on Tony Romo, due to his tumultuous relationship with Jessica Simpson, which I believed was affecting his means to focus and dedicate himself to taking part in quarterback. Quickly after that tweet in ’09 — simply earlier than, really — Tony had damaged up with Jessica. And he began to play higher, and I began to drive the [Cowboys] bandwagon down the stretch.”
One irony right here is that Bayless himself usually can’t stand any shade or attainable disrespect being thrown his manner. For the uninitiated, see clip under.
Earlier this morning, Bayless took the chance to focus on Kelce’s seen displeasure on the workforce’s efficiency – i.e. throwing his helmet on the sideline – to tease in the present day’s episode of Undisputed.
The present has been getting crushed within the scores this winter by the tag workforce of Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharpe, two of his former Undisputed protigés, on ESPN’s First Take.
Per Entrance Workplace Sports activities, “From September to November, First Take averaged 554,000 viewers in comparison with 120,000 for Undisputed.”
It’s gotten even worse.
“Through the two weeks from Nov. 27 to Dec. 8, First Take (581,000) drew an viewers 5 instances larger than Undisputed (105,000),” the location reported.
May or not it’s that the Undisputed host is in search of just a little of the Taylor Swift shine that introduced document scores to the NFL?
A sentiment the Fox Sports activities host as soon as expressed about James may show illuminating. He referred to as the Lakers’ celebrity an “all-time nice media and fan manipulator. He’ll be so extremely insecure, so thin-skinned, such a blame-deflecting diva, all the time making an attempt to alter the narrative of his failures and generally his epic failures.”
Et tu, Bayliss?
