Philadelphia Eagles working again Saquon Barkley stated he would not perceive why followers booed pop celebrity Taylor Swift when she was proven on the videoboards on the Caesars Superdome throughout Tremendous Bowl LIX.
“I do not forget that they confirmed her on the jumbotron, and he or she received booed. I do not get it. I do not get why she was getting hate there,” Barkley stated Wednesday throughout an look on “The Howard Stern Present” on SiriusXM.
Barkley’s response got here after he was requested if he thought Swift and her boyfriend, Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce, would get engaged. He did not have an opinion on that query however, unprompted, got here to the protection of Swift.
“We’re making an attempt to broaden the sport, and her being part of it is just serving to it. I do not get the hate she’s getting.”
Saquon Barkley, on Taylor Swift
He credited Swift with serving to to develop the recognition of the NFL.
“She was there supporting her vital different, and he or she’s made the sport larger,” Barkley stated. “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 is just serving to it. I do not get the hate she’s getting.”
Swift, who grew up close to Philadelphia however now roots for the Chiefs and Kelce, was booed when proven alongside rapper Ice Spice in the course of the first quarter Sunday evening. She appeared to mouth “What is going on on” in response to the booing.
Lots of the boos Sunday evening possible got here from Eagles followers. Barkley, nonetheless, has been embraced by the workforce’s supporters after leaving the New York Giants to sign up Philadelphia final offseason and having fun with a historic season through which he rushed for two,476 yards, probably the most in a single season, together with playoffs.
“They simply bathe you with love,” Barkley stated of the workforce’s followers. “And it has been fairly cool for me and my household ‘trigger sort of how issues resulted in New York. There was all the time love and help there, however issues did not finish off on an ideal be aware, I suppose you might 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 has been fairly cool.”
