Taylor Swift appears to skip Chiefs game for 1st time in 2024 season

Taylor Swift didn’t appear to make the trip to Atlanta to watch Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Falcons in their Week 3 matchup on Sunday night.

Swift had been at the Chiefs’ first two games of the season. Both of the games were victories and were played at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. Swift was in a suite for both games in which the Chiefs hung on by a thread to win.

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On Sunday night, the Chiefs were on the road. Swift was at the Chiefs’ road game last season against the New York Jets, but the circumstances were much different then. Swift also followed the Chiefs in their Super Bowl run and made Super Bowl 58 despite being on tour overseas.

Swift was noticeably missing as the pomp and circumstance of her entering Mercedes-Benz Stadium didn’t occur before kickoff.

Kelce has struggled to get going in the offense. Through two games, he had four catches for 39 yards.

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He faced criticism from ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith to start the week.

"I love my brother from another in Travis Kelce, but we saw more of Taylor Swift than we saw of Travis Kelce yesterday, on a Sunday afternoon," Smith said last week after the Chiefs’ win over the Cincinnati Bengals. "That wasn’t supposed to happen. We were supposed to see more of Travis Kelce yesterday than we saw of her.

"That’s not happening though. You’ve got to get going, you’ve got 39 receiving yards in the first two games. Come on now. Football season is here. Honeymoon’s over. Let’s handle our business, OK."

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Lions pull off spectacular 'hook-and-ladder' touchdown to stun Cardinals

The Detroit Lions pulled a signature street football play to score a spectacular touchdown against the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday afternoon in Glendale. 

With the Lions owning a 13-7 lead, Jared Goff and the offense found themselves on another solid drive and on Arizona’s 21-yard line when the offensive coordinator called a fun play to run, assuming they could connect on it. 

When Goff dropped back in the pocket, he found his top target, Amon-Ra St. Brown, on a short slant.

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However, the ball was only in his hands for a second when he threw it on a lateral back to running back Jahmyr Gibbs, who was streaking the other way behind him. 

The "hook-and-ladder," as it’s called, worked to perfection as Gibbs used his blazing speed to not just pick up chunks of yards but dive into the end zone for the 20-yard score to give the Lions a 20-7 lead. 

The Lions posted the nifty play to their social media, and commentators were quick to point out the crowd’s reaction, as they were simply in awe at what they were seeing. 

And it was a road game for the Lions, so Cardinals fans were stunned like their team on the field when they saw it working to perfection. 

Plays like the hook-and-ladder need to work to perfection to be successful on game day because the transfer of the ball is so fast that players have to be careful against turning the ball over.

The Lions have clearly worked on this in practice, and Johnson trusted his stars to make it work. The result couldn’t have been better.

Detroit is trying to win over a tough loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a game where they abandoned their patented run game and had Goff throw 55 times in the 20-16 defeat. 

The Lions established the run game against the Cardinals with 145 rushing yards through three quarters in this one.

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