Philadelphia Eagles player CJ Gardner-Johnson had some choice words for Swifties.
After trolling Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s romance earlier this week, the NFL safety took shots at Swift’s fanbase by wearing a hooded sweatshirt that read “Swifties Can LIX My Balls” during the team’s 2025 Super Bowl celebration parade on Friday.
The sweater was a reference to the team’s 40-22 win over the Kansas City Chiefs at Super Bowl LIX on Sunday.
Gardner-Johnson, 27, riled the Swifties up following the big game last weekend when he seemingly implied the Chiefs tight end, 35, fumbled his ex-girlfriend Kayla Nicole.
“Should’ve stayed w that thick s****,” Gardner-Johnson wrote atop a picture of him and Kelce on his Instagram Story, insinuating that Kelce’s romance with Swift somehow contributed to the team’s loss.
The athlete later appeared to confirm that his message was aimed at the “Fortnight” songstress by posting a picture of Nicole posing in a bikini next to the original message.
Gardner-Johnson eventually deleted the photo of Nicole after receiving backlash for allegedly body-shaming Swift, 35.
Soon after, Gardner-Johnson’s mother, Delatron Johnson, fired back at the Swifties, claiming that the pop-star’s fans were flooding the reviews of her Florida restaurant with fake, negative comments following her son’s post.
“I have friends who were sending me the screenshots,” Delatron told TMZ. “They were going, ‘Oh my god, look at this!’ And the first thing everyone said was, ‘the Swifties have attacked.’
“Yes, we’ve seen all the reviews. The joke is really on the Swifties and everyone entertaining the reviews because Kings Grill is closed.”
Johnson seemed to be taking the bad reviews in stride as she claimed those taking part in the attack on her restaurant were playing a losing game since her restaurant has been closed since Jan. 25.
“There is really no backlash because we are in the process of selling Kings Grill anyways,” she said. “It didn’t affect us one way or another.”
