Philadelphia Eagles operating again Saquon Barkley has defended Taylor Swift after she was booed by sections of the group throughout Sunday’s Tremendous Bowl.
The pop star was in New Orleans to assist her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, as his Kansas Metropolis Chiefs misplaced to the Eagles. When Swift was proven on the Superdome’s videoscreens she was greeted with boos and appeared to mouth “What’s occurring?”
In an look on the Howard Stern Present on Wednesday Barkley was requested about gossip round Kelce and Swift’s doable engagement. As a substitute, he defended Swift.
“I do not forget that they confirmed her on the jumbotron, and he or she obtained booed. I don’t get it. I don’t get why she was getting hate there,” Barkley stated. “She was there supporting her important different, and he or she’s made the sport greater. In soccer we’re all about, ‘How can we broaden the sport and make it extra [international]?’ We’re touring to Brazil, we’re touring to Mexico. Apparently, we’re touring to Australia quickly. We’re making an attempt to broaden the sport, and her being part of it’s only serving to it. I don’t get the detest she’s getting.”
Swift grew up close to Philadelphia, has been photographed in Eagles gear and was assumed to be fan earlier than she began showing at Chiefs video games in Kansas Metropolis jerseys when she began her relationship with Kelce. That will have led to Eagles followers booing her, though others speculated some within the crowd have been reacting to her assist for Kamala Harris in final 12 months’s presidential election.
For his half, Barkley stated he was delighted by the assist he had acquired since becoming a member of the Eagles from their divisional rivals, the New York Giants, final 12 months.
“[Eagles fans] simply bathe you with love,” Barkley stated. “And it’s been fairly cool for me and my household ‘trigger sort of how issues resulted in New York. There was at all times love and assist there, however issues didn’t finish off on an incredible notice, I assume you could possibly say. And to have the ability to come right here and simply the best way how they’ve taken me in and my household in, and my daughter is the star right here. They love my little daughter. So it’s been fairly cool.”
