Eagles Star Saquon Barkley Comes to Taylor Swift’s Defense After Super Bowl Booing: ‘She’s Made the Game Bigger’
Written by djfrosty on February 12, 2025
Saquon Barkley is in the midst of celebrating his 2025 Super Bowl win with the Philadelphia Eagles, but he’s not feeling so celebratory about the way some of his team’s supporters treated Taylor Swift at the Big game over the weekend.
During a SiriusXM interview with Howard Stern on Wednesday (Feb. 12), the superstar running back criticized the way some Eagles fans openly and loudly booed the “Fortnight” singer at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans three days prior. “I remember that they showed [Swift] on the jumbotron and she got booed,” Barkley told the radio host.
“I don’t get it,” the first-time Super Bowl champion continued. “I don’t get why she was getting hate there. She’s there supporting her significant other and she’s made the game bigger. … I don’t get the slack that she’s getting.”
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As Barkley pointed out, Swift was simply in attendance Sunday to cheer on boyfriend Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs, who ultimately lost 40-22 against the Eagles. That didn’t stop some Eagles fans from meeting her with a choir of boos when, at one point, her face was shown on the stadium’s big screens, something the 14-time Grammy winner simply side-eyed and laughed about in the moment.
Shortly afterward, both Serena Williams — who was also at the game to make a cameo in Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show performance — and Flavor Flav came to Swift’s defense online. “I love you @taylorswift13 dont listen to those booo!!” the tennis champ wrote on X that day, while the Public Enemy rapper encouraged on Bluesky, “Just Shake It Off.”
Jimmy Kimmel also jumped in later to defend Swift after Donald Trump taunted the musician with a post on Truth Social reading, “The only one that had a tougher night than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift. She got BOOED out of the Stadium. MAGA is very unforgiving!”
“She didn’t get booed out of the stadium,” the talk show host chided on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday (Feb. 10). “Unlike you, she stayed for the whole game — and it was the Eagles fans who were booing her. But you’re right, it’s all about you.”