Patrick Mahomes demurs on discussing Travis Kelce-Taylor Swift Super Bowl LVIII conspiracy
It’s been a whirlwind few days for Patrick Mahomes since winning the Super Bowl on Sunday, from postgame media to follow-up interviews, even a trip to Disneyland for a parade. And in the lead up to and aftermath of the Super Bowl, Mahomes hasn’t had time to pay mind to whatever conspiracy theories were abound.
But it didn’t mean he wasn’t asked about it, as CNN’s Abby Phillips asked the quarterback about the supposed Taylor Swift-fueled conspiracy to help the Kansas City Chiefs — and in turn current president Joe Biden — win in the Super Bowl and 2024 election, respectively. Mahomes remained about the fray.
“It’s been wild to see,” Mahomes said. “I try to focus in on football as much as possible, but there’s always some conspiracy theories out there. I just try to enjoy football, my family and I kind of stay off social media as much as possible.”
Adding some fuel to the fire was the Biden campaign, which tweeted a meme of Biden as “dark Brandon” and the caption “Just like we drew it up.” The evident joke drew plenty of ire, from a litany of directions.
The broad contours of this conspiracy theory are as follows: The romance between Swift and Travis Kelce was a setup, putting together a pair of people who are apparently sympathetic to or favor the policies of Biden and the Democratic party — Swift has been an outspoken critic of former president Donald Trump and pushed for voter registration in the past, and Kelce was been a poster boy for Pfizer in an ongoing ad campaign for the Covid vaccine; and after apparently having planted the Swift-Kelce romance to bring them together on a national stage, the NFL or some other entity also decided the Super Bowl would be won by the Chiefs and that Swift and Kelce would endorse Biden’s reelection.
The conspiracy was popularized by former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who eventually dropped out of the race. He claimed that the “deep state” would be orchestrating this plan.
The Chiefs did win Super Bowl LVIII, defeating the San Francisco 49ers, 25-22, in overtime. But to date there have been no presidential endorsements from either Swift or Kelce.
And given the way believers of a given conspiracy can turn any nugget from a figure involved into evidence of it being true, Mahomes was probably wise not to get into the weeds at all.