CJ Gardner-Johnson has mocked Taylor Swift and her fans with a custom-made sweatshirt worn on a wild day at the Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl parade.
As thousands of euphoric Eagles supporters poured onto the Philadelphia streets to start the boozy celebrations, Gardner-Johnson took his big moment to escalate his feud with Swift and her fanbase.
He ignited the dispute by targeting her boyfriend, Chiefs star Travis Kelce, after the Super Bowl victory by sharing a picture of him squaring up to the tight end and writing: ‘Should’ve Stayed with that thick s***’.
It was interpreted as a reference Kelce’s ex-girlfriend, Kayla Nicole. And after a backlash from Swifties – who flooded his mom’s restaurant with bad reviews – the Eagles star wore a sweater with the words: ‘Swifties can LIX my balls’. LIX are the roman numerals for the number 59, which was the number of the recent Super Bowl that the Eagles won.
The picture of Gardner-Johnson emerged moments before Kelce’s older brother, Jason, made his hugely anticipated arrival to the day of wild celebrations with a beer in his hand.
Eagles VP Howie Roseman got hit in the head by a beer can and was bleeding from the forehead while Cooper DeJean cut his own eyebrow, he said, by hitting himself on the head with can of beer.
Quinyon Mitchell, the Eagles cornerback, appeared too drunk to speak when the Fox cameras asked him how momentous the day felt. He just screamed ‘GO EAGLES’ down the camera.
Star running back Saquon Barkley, meanwhile, was overwhelmed by the scenes playing out.
‘Every time I think Philly can’t take it to another level, they take it to a whole other level,’ he said. ‘Words can’t describe it. I might be having too much fun. It definitely exceeded expectations. Man, we’ve got the best fans in the world.
‘We all sacrificed our ego and focused on winning a championship and we got it done. I came here and I couldn’t imagine being anywhere else.
‘You can’t make it up. Sunday was amazing (beating the Chiefs). You start thinking about the future but still like this helps you live in the moment. Go Birds!’
Eagles fans piled out onto the streets from the early hours of the morning and they were keen to rub it in the noses of their beaten rivals in Kansas City. One unruly Eagles fan was seen vomiting in a video uploaded to X before 10am local time, while thousands of fans around him chanted ‘E-A-G-L-E-S!’.
One group of fans were pictured with a hog roast that had a wig on its head and the number 15 seared into its side – the number worn by the Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
Elsewhere, a coffin was seen carried through the massive crowds with ‘RIP Chiefs’ emblazoned across it. A funeral home also had a banner reading ‘RIP Chiefs’ above its door.
It promised to be a day of wild celebrations in the city with one of the most passionate and raucous fanbases turning out in massive numbers to celebrate their heroes winning just their second ever Super Bowl title.
Some were seen clambering up trees to try and get a better glimpse of the Super Bowl winners. Others decided to try and scale a lamppost. Schools had been closed across the city in advance of the big day.
The famous statue at Love Park had an addition next to the ‘Love’ letters – the word ‘Hurts’, celebrating the victorious quarterback Jalen Hurts, who wore a hood with the same logo on it. The Eagles star was also puffing a cigar as the parade began.
For Gardner-Johnson, the Kelce-Swift dispute was ramped up when his mom suffered an onslaught of bad reviews about her restaurant in the days since the big game in New Orleans.
King’s Grill, the Rockledge, Fl. eatery owned by Delatron Johnson, has been slapped with several one-star reviews, branding it ‘horrible’ and ‘underwhelming’.
It appears Google has taken action to remove all the recent reviews left on the establishment’s page, while Yelp has disabled its comments after the avalanche of reviews triggered an ‘Unusual Activity Alert.’
Nicole and Kelce, meanwhile, dated on and off for five years before officially calling it quits in May 2022. Kelce then moved on to the 14-time Grammy winner in July 2023, becoming one of the most high-profile couples in recent history.
And to rub salt in the wounds for Kelce, his ex was at the game and celebrated the Eagles win on the field after the Super Bowl was over.
She could be seen dancing on the Chiefs’ grave in videos shared on her Instagram story.
The media personality posed on the field as the Eagles celebrated their second Super Bowl triumph, while even holding up some green and white confetti at one stage.
‘They said there’s room on the wagon y’all,’ she captioned one of the posts.
Nicole was rooting for a Philadelphia victory while sitting in and amongst Eagles fans at the Superdome, where she joked earlier in the evening about singing their famous ‘Fly Eagles Fly’ chant.
Swift herself didn’t have a good day at the Super Bowl, even after Kelce and the Chiefs got badly beaten.
When Swift first appeared on the jumbotron at Caesars Superdome, she was met with emphatic booing in the sold-out stadium. She looked startled by the response.
She was then mocked by President Trump over the incident.
Trump, who became the first sitting President to attend a Super Bowl, taunted her on Truth Social after the Chiefs lost 40-22 against the Eagles.
‘The only one that had a tougher night than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift. She got BOOED out of the Stadium. MAGA is very unforgiving!’ he wrote.
