Caitlin Clarks 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 Rus...