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The "NFL is rigged" takes have been going on for several years due to poor officiating, particularly in key parts of games. What started as a joke has slowly gained traction as frustrated fans start to blame losses on bad calls
The Kansas City Chiefs have had sustained success in a league made for parity, leading people to--jokingly or not--saying the "NFL scriptwriters" have written them to go back to the Super Bowl (which doesn't make sense for a small market team but whatever)
At the start of the season superstar KC player Travis Kelce got a sponsorship Pfizer to endorse vaccines, sparking some drama with famously anti-vaxx player Aaron Rogers (who ironically plays for a team owned by the heir to Johnson and Johnson) getting national coverage in the sports media landscape
Kelce uses his wildly popular podcast as a platform to shoot his shot with Swift. The two start dating
TV broadcasts start cutting to Swift frequently during games. While it's not uncommon for celebrities in the stands to get attention, Swift and Kelce's popularity means she gets a lot of attention
Attention brings Swifties, Swifties bring money
Her brand earns the NFL and the Kansas City Chiefs over 330 million dollars and a new demographic as countless young girls get into football for the first time
More money = more attention. Conservatives who already didn't like Swift start throwing hissy fits online. The same fans who already don't like the Chiefs because they're successful, and Kelce because he's "sold out" to the vaccine companies
The controversy stirs up national media attention, which drives more discussion, and more hissy fits, in a vicious feedback loop only gets worse with time
Through all this, the Chiefs and Kelce have their worst season years. While they're good enough to get into the playoffs, most don't believe they're good enough to win the championship
Once the playoffs start, a switch is flipped, and the Chiefs win three playoff games despite being underdogs in two of them and playing on the road for the first time in recent memory
Despite all odds, the Chiefs are going back to the Super Bowl. Conservatives start saying that the only possible way this is possible is that the NFL has decided to script the season so that Swift can endorse Biden in the election
The Pentagon is forced to release a notice saying that Swift is not an agent for a government psyops
Of course this makes more people believe it, and the cycle begins anew
In what has to be a brief vision of the future to come, one of my CNAs at work is calming down one of my agitated dementia residents by watching Supernatural with them