Julia Fox Calls Out NFL Fans Blaming Taylor Swift for Chiefs’ Losses

Julia Fox has seen enough of the NFL finger-pointing game, and she’s not buying into it. The Uncut Gems actress called out the way women get scapegoated when their athlete partners falter — a dynamic Taylor Swift knows all too well. After all, it was just last February that Swift watched fiancé Travis Kelce walk off the field after the Chiefs’ devastating Super Bowl LIX loss to the Eagles, where she was even met with boos in the stands. Now, with the new season underway, the same old narrative has returned: if the Chiefs lose, somehow it’s Swift’s fault.

In a new interview with Pedestrian.TV, Fox dismissed that logic as “crazy.” “Like, if a guy loses a game it’s a girl’s ‘fault,’ it’s, like, his girlfriend’s ‘fault.’ It’s just crazy,” she said. Fox recalled fans blaming Swift for a Kelce loss last year, shaking her head at the “irrational ass s***” sports culture leans on to pin failure on women: “it ultimately leads to a woman being blamed.”

Some superstitions can be silly and harmless — Prince William famously makes his kids shuffle around the living room during tense Aston Villa matches — but others, like blaming Swift for the Chiefs’ record, carry a more misogynistic edge. And when those kinds of digs pile up, some Swifties cite them as the reason she doesn’t “get involved politically” — arguing that constant sexist scrutiny justifies her silence. It’s a framing that infantilizes more than it protects — sparing her from conversations about her billionaire status, private jet usage, and particular brand of white feminism while letting the sexist tropes run unchecked.

Earlier this month, Swift slipped into Arrowhead Stadium behind a black screen, a stealthy entrance that sent fans spinning with theories about her The Life of a Showgirl album rollout, or a possible pregnancy. Coming so soon after her August engagement to Kelce, even a walk into the stadium became a headline, proof of how relentless the attention has grown — both positive and negative.

Fox, though, has little patience for the whole spectacle. “So you’re admitting we’re powerful? So you’re admitting it?” she quipped. For her, the truth is simple: the Chiefs’ record lives and dies on the field — not in the VIP box, no matter what Swift happens to be up to.

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