For Pete's Sake

At his roast, Tom Brady used Taylor Swift to throw shade at Chiefs fans

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady celebrates after the game winning touchdown in overtime for a 37-31 win against the Kansas City Chiefs during Sunday’s AFC Championship Game on January 20, 2019 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady celebrates after the game winning touchdown in overtime for a 37-31 win against the Kansas City Chiefs during Sunday’s AFC Championship Game on January 20, 2019 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. jsleezer@kcstar.com

Nearly nine years to the day before Taylor Swift made her first appearance at a Chiefs game as a fan, a record was set at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.

On Sept. 29, 2014, the Chiefs thumped the Patriots 41-14 on “Monday Night Football” and quarterback Tom Brady was pulled from the game. That night, Chiefs fans set a Guinness World Record for the loudest crowd roar at a sports stadium.

Being the loudest venue in sports is a point of pride for Kansas City fans, but Brady poked fun at Chiefs Kingdom on Sunday night.

During “The Roast of Tom Brady” on Netflix, the former Patriots and Buccaneers quarterback mentioned the Chiefs and Swift, who is dating tight end Travis Kelce. That romance become public knowledge when Swift attended the Chiefs’ 41-10 win over the Bears last September.

“Kansas City, you say your stadium is the loudest. That helps when all your fans are 14-year-old girls,” Brady said, seemingly noting that many of Taylor Swift’s supporters have become Chiefs fans.

Brady wasn’t finished with roasting the Chiefs, and he used Swift and her Eras Tour to do it.

“And in honor of Tay Tay,” Brady said, “let’s take a look at the Chiefs eras: terrible for 50 years. Good for five, shake it off.”

Zing.

Here is the clip.

Pete Grathoff
The Kansas City Star
From covering the World Series to the World Cup, Pete Grathoff has done a little bit of everything since joining The Kansas City Star in 1997.
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