NFL fans intervene after restaurant owned by Eagles' CJ Gardner-Johnson's mom hit by unwarranted bad reviews

Del Johnson watched from Florida arsenic confetti fell connected her son, C.J. Gardner-Johnson, and his teammates aft the Philadelphia Eagles routed the Kansas City Chiefs successful Super Bowl LIX.

The Eagles safety's parent was successful Cocoa Village, Florida, not New Orleans for the large game. She was determination due to the fact that she besides had thing to observe — the opening of her 2nd restaurant. However, the celebratory mode was short-lived owed to an influx of antagonistic Yelp reviews for Johnson's different establishment, Kings Grill successful Rockledge, Florida. 

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Philadelphia Eagles information C.J. Gardner-Johnson, #8, celebrates aft winning Super Bowl LIX astatine Caesars Superdome successful New Orleans connected Feb. 9, 2025. (Geoff Burke-Imagn Images)

The spike successful mediocre reviews began soon aft Gardner-Johnson took purpose astatine Chiefs prima Travis Kelce. 

"Should’ve stayed with that heavy s--- ," Gardner-Johnson captioned an Instagram Stories post. The caption seemed to notation Kelce's erstwhile romance with Kayla Nicole, who attended this past Sunday's large crippled and celebrated the Eagles triumph connected the Caesars Superdome turf.

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Fans of vocalist Taylor Swift, who are often referred to arsenic "Swifties," appeared to beryllium liable for astatine slightest the archetypal watercourse of atrocious Google reviews and antagonistic Yelp reviews for the Kings Grill. Swift has made galore appearances astatine Chiefs games implicit the past 2 seasons and is presently dating Kelce.

"I person friends who were sending maine the screenshots," Delatron Johnson told TMZ Sports. "They were going, ‘Oh my god, look astatine this!’ And the archetypal happening everyone said was, ‘the Swifties person attacked.'

"Yes, we’ve seen each the reviews. The gag is truly connected the Swifties and everyone entertaining the reviews due to the fact that Kings Grill is closed."

The unfavorable reviews were aboriginal removed and Yelp placed an "unusual enactment alert" connected the restaurant's leafage which "temporarily disabled the posting of content."

C.J. Gardner-Johnson, #8 of the Philadelphia Eagles, and Travis Kelce, #87 of the Kansas City Chiefs, look disconnected successful the archetypal 4th during Super Bowl LIX astatine Caesars Superdome connected Feb. 9, 2025 successful New Orleans. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

"This concern precocious received accrued nationalist attention, which often means radical travel to this leafage to station their views connected news. While we don’t instrumentality a basal 1 mode oregon the different erstwhile it comes to this incident, we’ve temporarily disabled the posting of contented to this leafage arsenic we enactment to analyse whether the contented you spot present reflects existent user experiences alternatively than the caller events," the station read.

A Yelp spokesperson added that "moderators" would yet "clean up the leafage truthful that it reflects firsthand user experiences."

"For Yelp to stay a utile assets to the community, reviews indispensable beryllium based connected a genuine, firsthand acquisition with the business," the spokesperson said successful a statement. "Due to the accrued enactment we detected connected the concern page, Yelp’s User Operations squad worked rapidly to temporarily disable the posting of contented to the leafage and placed an Unusual Activity Alert connected Tuesday, February 11. When we spot the enactment dramatically alteration oregon stop, our moderators volition cleanable up the leafage truthful that it reflects firsthand user experiences."

Philadelphia Eagles information C.J. Gardner-Johnson, #8, practices earlier Super Bowl LIX against the Kansas City Chiefs astatine Caesars Superdome successful New Orleans connected Feb. 9, 2025. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)

Some Eagles fans took announcement of the flood of antagonistic reviews Johnson's edifice received and showed their enactment by leaving a sizeable fig of affirmative reviews for the establishment.

Supporters of different NFL teams besides came to Johnson's aid. 

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"Saints instrumentality here, convey y’all for getting CJ a ring. Kinda bittersweet that radical are trying to onslaught this spot due to the fact that the Chiefs are sorry. I’m definite the nutrient and work present are large though truthful gonna casual 5 star. Go birds I guess," a New Orleans Saints instrumentality wrote. Gardner-Johnson spent the archetypal 3 years of his NFL vocation with the Saints.

A Las Vegas Raiders instrumentality suggested the edifice had top-notch service. "Service was connected constituent convey you! Food was connected constituent convey you! Ambiance was connected constituent convey you! #RAAAIIIDERSSSS," the Raiders instrumentality wrote.

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