Chris Russo was a crazy dog when he saw Taylor Swift and Caitlin Clark disrupt his football game over the weekend as the Chiefs hosted the Texans in the AFC Wild Card Round.
After Russo went on a classic rant on his Sirius questioned the fans.
“I'm tired of Kelce. I'm tired of my girlfriend. Now I'm adding Caitlin Clark to the mix,” an aggravated Russo said during the show. “By the way, I watched Caitlin Clark play, have you watched 50 college basketball games in the last two years? Part of it. I never heard the reference. She 's father was never seen wearing a Chiefs jersey.
“I've never seen her wear a Chiefs hat. I never heard in 50 games that she was a Chiefs fan, and now all of a sudden she's a huge Kansas City fan. Come on, stop it. I understand why you want to be a fan because they're going to win.”
But Russo seemed to ignore the fact that Clark has discussed Chiefs fans several times here — including on ESPN, the network that employs him. Also included.
Clark was in the Manning cast in 2023 During the Chiefs vs. Eagles “Monday Night Football” game, she talked about her origins as a Chiefs fan and even showed an old photo of Clark in Kansas City gear.
“I've been a Chiefs fan since I was little. My brother was a Chiefs fan, my dad was a Chiefs fan. I had a cousin in Kansas City who was a Chiefs fan,” she said at the time. “Honestly, that was all I knew. We had a Chiefs vending machine in our basement. We had a toy Chiefs helmet, so I used to run around in the yard and watch it with my brothers and sisters. We were able to bump helmets together.”
Clark also touched on the topic during a recent appearance on the New Heights podcast with Travis and Jason Kelce.
None of that seemed to matter to Russo, who criticized the attention the appearance could draw before questioning Swift's musical relevance.
“And ESPN, they're going to be just as guilty as everyone else. They're going to show Swift and her and that weird press box until the cows come home,” he fumed. continued. “When you're Taylor Swift's Bob Dylan, come back and tell me. When she has that kind of influence, come back and tell me. To an 18-year-old girl like my daughter. You Swifties can say whatever you want. Come back and talk to me when you change the music.”
It's unclear whether Clark will play again next week when the Chiefs host the Bills for a spot in the Super Bowl, but Russo will probably have to resist seeing Swift with the pop icon on TV for the game. Probably not.
If the Chiefs win, Kansas City will make its fifth Super Bowl appearance in the last six years and will be looking for its third consecutive Super Bowl championship.
