‘Make Taylor Swift cry.’ Bills fans troll the pop star ahead of Chiefs playoff game
You watching that big game this weekend?
Bills Mafia vs. Taylor Swift.
After the Buffalo Bills won the right to play the Kansas City Chiefs and Swift’s boyfriend, tight end Travis Kelce, in an AFC Divisional playoff game on Sunday, a Bills fan named Jenna tweeted: “Everyone be nice to Taylor Swift next week.”
She might as well have told a rabid dog not to bite.
“I apologize for this but Taylor is getting the mafia treatment,” a fellow Bills fan retorted. “Strictly business, unfortunately.”
The Chiefs will travel to Orchard Park, New York, to face the Bills in the playoffs, their third postseason matchup in four seasons (but the first not in KC). This time they have one of the biggest stars in the world cheering for them, an A-lister who has brought international attention to their season.
Expectations are high that Swift, who is now a regular at Chiefs games, will be there.
And one of the NFL’s most rowdy, dedicated fan bases is ready for it.
A Buffalo bakery has created a Taylor Swift cookie cake for Bills fans with a message (warning?) to Swift, riffing on one of her songs in icing: “Welcome to New York. Buffalo’s been waitin’ for you.”
Game on.
This was my final choice. @taylornation13 #chiefsvsbills #BillsMafia #TaylorSwift #TaylorSwift13 pic.twitter.com/cCfC96qkJG
— Lonna Rich ♀️ (@LonnaLu) January 17, 2024
Bills Mafia — a new-ish nickname that emphasizes family, not organized crime — is giving Swift the business so hard on social media this week that one of its own members issued this plaintive plea on a Bills Mafia Facebook page: “Leave Taylor alone.”
That was the same page where a top contributor named Loren posted this: “Make Taylor Swift Cry.”
Oh the memes, GIFs and puns.
Steroid-pumped buffalo charging at Swift, as she’s standing on a football field in front of a microphone, wearing a Chiefs jersey.
Bills fans using her own lyrics against her: “Leaning all the way into Taylor Swift this week. ‘Cause darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.’”
Hillary Clinton even pops up in some of the jabs.
Mount up Bills fans! #GoBills #TaylorSwift #BillsMafia pic.twitter.com/wOuaTTwk8x
— Doug Roxburgh (@DougRoxTV) January 18, 2024
Taylor Swift when she sees me pressing my face against the window of her luxury suite on Sunday. Hello, Taylor. #billsmafia pic.twitter.com/gTHgKCYCwU
— Frank Barber (@HannabillLecter) January 17, 2024
When do the Bills go up against Taylor Swift? #BillsMafia pic.twitter.com/xTshJW2xJh
— Anne (@annelovesfilm) January 17, 2024
Taylor Swift when she sees Ryan Fitzpatrick shirtless in 10 degree weather cheering with #BillsMafia pic.twitter.com/WoEQJ7wmZR
— Bills Run Deep (@BillsRunDeep2) January 17, 2024
The view I need Taylor Swift to have next week. pic.twitter.com/6sGthLwi2F
— Greg Vorse (@GregVorse) January 16, 2024
"I just want to make Taylor Swift cry"
- 2009 John Mayer
- 2024 Bills Mafia— Joe DiNardo (@joedinardo) January 16, 2024
If Decembers game wasn’t enough. Taylor Swift will definitely be looking this way at the end of play on Sunday #GoBills #BillsMafia #BuffaloBills #Buffalo #Bills #TaylorSwift #JoshAllen pic.twitter.com/pJTsiMGpAv
— MH85 (@MH85Bills) January 16, 2024
Dear #Buffalo media,
Enough with the #TaylorSwift BS! Nobody cares where she’s staying, when she’s going to fly in, etc. We care about the #Bills beating the #Chiefs and advancing to the AFC Championship Game.
Signed,
The entire #BillsMafia— Joseph Piwtorak (@jmpiwtorak) January 16, 2024
Leaning all the way into Taylor Swift this week. This is a good place to start...
"Cause darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream." #ChiefsKingdom #BillsMafia #Swifties pic.twitter.com/BP3nqAmV8e— BFaith (@BFaithStats) January 17, 2024
Swift hasn’t met football fans like this yet, the kind who are talking among themselves about tossing snowballs at her. (They’re joking. Right?)
The kind who get so hyped up at games they leap onto flaming folding tables.
It’s a real thing.
The one positive of these conditions is that the flaming table jump seems much safer. https://t.co/ub8SZuWuup
— Mark for Buffalo (@BillsMafiaChiNW) January 15, 2024
Taylor Swift when she rolls into town and sees a 300 pound shirtless #BillsMafia member jumping off a van onto a flaming folding table. pic.twitter.com/z3KFQjODBI
— MLBModel (@TheAlgoholic) January 16, 2024
The Bills have their own celebrity fans, including Dean Cain, who once played Superman on TV. And actress/singer Hailee Steinfeld of “True Grit” and “Hawkeye” fame, who is dating quarterback Josh Allen.
#BillsMafia @RealDeanCain pic.twitter.com/Kx1KPrlvrU
— Joy (@missjoynicole) January 17, 2024
Hailee Steinfeld vs Taylor Swift on Sunday? ️ #BillsMafia pic.twitter.com/FAkadrtBkL
— Buffalo Fanatics (@BfloFanatics) January 18, 2024
By now, some Bills fans are tired of the media attention, including a lot of local buzz, that Swift is drawing ahead of the game.
Yes….we are sick of Taylor Swift…it has turned into the Taylor Show. One right after another…♀️ #BillsMafia pic.twitter.com/uNwiQBEyFq
— Deen (@LaLa716NY) January 17, 2024
But actually, some of them are her fans, too. Members of the self-proclaimed Swiftie Mafia, formed over the summer as Swift toured, are excited that they might see her at Highmark Stadium.
They’ve got their “Tay-gating” plans ready for pregame fun in the parking lot.
They’re also on Bills fan pages asking people not to bully Swift and getting ridiculed for being Swifties.
So many of the comments among the 86,000 members of the Official Buffalo Bills Mafia page on Facebook this week were about the singer that administrators banned the Swift talk.
“If you guys (saw) the posts and requests we have gotten … you’d think this was a Taylor Swift fan club group more than a Bills Mafia page,” the clearly frustrated admins wrote. “Which is why we are nipping it in the bud first thing.”
“No I do not need to post about her on this page but don’t need to disrespect her either,” one fan replied. “We are grown a@@ adults. Let’s worry about beating KC!”