It’s a proxy war by way of WAG. After the Buffalo Bills broke the Kansas City Chiefs’ perfect record for the season, Bills linebacker Baylon Spector’s wife Ryleigh took to Instagram to celebrate, and throw a little shade at Taylor Swift, girlfriend of Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
“9-2!” she wrote on Instagram Stories, referencing the Bills’ season record. She added, “Never a Swiftie” with the yawning emoji, per The Daily Mail. Spector has since locked her Instagram account, because however lighthearted she meant to be, making the Chiefs’ loss about Swift struck a nerve with some of the pop star’s more sensitive fans. I mean, we’ve seen this film before, and we didn’t like the ending, right? The not-so-nice comments dismissing Spector as “low class” and “irrelevant” were probably uncalled for but sadly not unpredictable. (And the comments on her husband’s page mocking Ryleigh’s looks are truly disgusting.) PSA: if you’re celebrating your husband’s work win, just keep Taylor Swift out of it? She wasn’t even there?
And maybe that’s because last time she was there, the Bills fans were pretty hard on her. During a recent appearance on the Up & Adams podcast, sportscaster Adam Lefkoe remarked that the Swift-Kelce group (Taylor, Kylie, Jason, etc.) did not receive the warmest welcome from Bills fans. “I have heard from people very close that it was not a great experience in Buffalo. It was not. For all parties involved. And I’m talking about the most famous of all the parties,” Lefkoe said, per Sports Illustrated. “I think that it kind of shocked the Kelce family and everyone related to the Kelce family the reception they got.”
He continued, “I think they were kind of going in being like, ‘This is going to be an amazing game with good energy.’ And they got there and they experienced Bills Mafia in full form, in its complete ruthlessness.” He added, “And I think they left and went, ‘I don’t know if I want to experience that again.’”
Damn, be nice! It’s just football!
