Philadelphia Eagles working again Saquon Barkley stated he does not perceive why followers booed pop famous person Taylor Swift when she was proven on the videoboards on the Caesars Superdome throughout Tremendous Bowl LIX.
“I keep in mind that they confirmed her on the jumbotron, and she or he bought 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 increase the sport, and her being part of it is just serving to it. I do not get the detest 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 important different, and she or he’s made the sport larger,” Barkley stated. “In soccer we’re all about, ‘How can we increase 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 increase the sport, and her being part of it is just serving to it. I do not get the detest 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 throughout the first quarter Sunday night time. She appeared to mouth “What is going on on” in response to the booing.
Lots of the boos Sunday night time doubtless got here from Eagles followers. Barkley, nevertheless, 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 by which he rushed for two,476 yards, essentially 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 led to New York. There was all the time love and assist there, however issues did not finish off on an awesome be aware, I assume you possibly can say. And to have the ability to come right here and simply the way in which 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.”
