Chiefs-Bills AFC Championship game has already been rigged for Taylor Swift, claims Skip Bayless

The Chiefs volition host the Bills successful the AFC Championship this Sunday, but Skip Bayless believes the contention has already been rigged for Kansas City truthful that Taylor Swift remains astir the sport.

Swift, who watched the Chiefs alongside Caitlin Clark past weekend, has been a fixture astatine Kansas City games since her and Travis Kelce began dating successful the summertime of 2023.

And Bayless believes that the NFL volition rig the AFC Championship to get Swift astatine the Super Bowl again, aft she watched Kelce and his squad decision the 49ers past year.

'The memo volition spell out, conscionable arsenic it did past week, 'make definite Taylor Swift makes it to New Orleans for the Super Bowl,'' helium said connected his eponymous show. 'Without her, the NFL loses millions and millions of viewers who volition tune in, mostly to spot what she's wearing up successful that Superdome luxury box.'

'So Mahomes, teetering though helium might, indispensable beryllium propped up. Must beryllium protected by the referees, conscionable the mode helium was Saturday astatine location against the Texans,' Bayless continued.

'This is the Taylor Swift effect. She is simply a one-woman ratings juggernaut. 'Protect her! Prop her up! Award her boyfriend's squad with phantom penalties. Get them to New Orleans! The NFL needs the Swifties. Protect 'em! Prop 'em up! Make definite the Chiefs advance.'

While Swift's Eras Tour constricted however galore games she could be this season, her accordant beingness successful the stands past play - aboriginal successful her and Kelce's narration - unsurprisingly led to monolithic ratings.

One Sunday Night Football broadcast successful October 2023 betwixt the Chiefs and Jets saw a spike of 53 percent from the season-to-date mean of the archetypal 3 weeks of that clip slot.

Among women betwixt the ages of 18-24, viewership was up 24 percent, portion ratings for women implicit 35 years aged accrued 34 percent, NBC said.

While Swift is expected to beryllium successful her customary suite this Sunday arsenic the Chiefs effort to get to a 3rd consecutive Super Bowl, she is giving Kelce his abstraction successful the buildup to the game.

As exclusively reported by DailyMail.com, Swift returned to New York connected Monday pursuing Kansas City's 23-14 win.

DailyMail.com had photographed Swift and her entourage leaving her Manhattan flat successful 2 vehicles aboriginal connected Saturday morning.

She spent Friday nighttime astatine meal with her parents and member astatine Nobu successful New York earlier jetting to ticker Kelce.

Tight extremity Kelce was sensational successful the crippled arsenic helium racked up 7 catches for 117 yards and a touchdown.

However, it had been a somewhat challenging regular play for the 35-year-old arsenic his 832 receiving yards and 3 touchdowns were his fewest since his archetypal play a starter successful 2014.

He'll look to support it going against the Bills, whom helium totaled conscionable 8 receiving yards against successful a crippled earlier this season.