Caitlin Clark’s Chiefs game appearance broke Chris Russo: ‘Please, stop’
Chris Russo was one mad dog at the sight of Taylor Swift and Caitlin Clark interrupting his football viewing experience over the weekend when the Chiefs hosted the Texans in the AFC Wild Card Round.
Russo went on an old-school rant during his SiriusXM radio show “Mad Dog Unleashed” as he whined about being fed up with the Chiefs, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, before calling into question Clark’s Chiefs fandom on Monday.
“I’ve had enough with Kelce. I’ve had enough with the girlfriend. Now I got Caitlin Clark in the mix,” an exacerbated Russo said during his show. “Who, by the way, I saw Caitlin Clark play, what, 50 games in college basketball the last two years? Parts of it. I never heard one reference. I never saw her father with a Chief jersey on.
“I never saw her with a Chiefs hat on. I heard not one reference in 50 games that she was a Chief fan, and then all of a sudden now she’s a big Kansas City fan. Come on, stop, please. I understand you want to be a fan because they win.”
However, Russo seemed to have been ignoring the fact that Clark has discussed here Chiefs fandom on several occasions – including on the network that employs him, ESPN.
Clark had appeared on a ManningCast in 2023 during a “Monday Night Football” game between the Chiefs and Eagles where she discussed the origins of her Chiefs fandom and even showed an old picture of Clark in Kansas City gear.
“I’ve been a Chiefs fan since I was a young girl. My brother was a Chiefs fan, my dad was a Chiefs fan. I had cousins in Kansas City that were Chiefs fans,” she said at the time. “Honestly it was just something all I knew. In our basement, we had a Chiefs vending machine. We had those toy helmets that were Chiefs that you could run around in the yard and I could knock helmets with my brothers.”
Clark had also addressed the topic more recently when she appeared on the “New Heights” podcast with Travis and Jason Kelce.
None of that seemed to matter to Russo, who then criticized all the attention the appearance might draw before taking a shot at Swifts’ musical relevance.
“And ESPN, they’re going to be as guilty as everybody else. They’re going to show you Swift and her and that freaking press box until the cows come home,” he continued indignantly. “When Taylor Swift’s Bob Dylan, come back and talk to me. Come back and talk to me when she has that impact. Not for the 18-year-old girls like my daughter. You Swifties can say anything you want. Come back and talk to me. When you change music, come back and talk to me.”
While it’s unclear if Clark will be making another appearance next week when the Chiefs host the Bills for a shot at a trip to the Super Bowl, Russo will likely have to endure seeing Swift on his TV with the pop icon presumptively on hand for the game.
Should the Chiefs win, Kansas City would be making its fifth Super Bowl appearance in the last six years and going for its third consecutive Super Bowl title.
