{"id":409915,"date":"2022-10-22T16:07:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T16:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=409915"},"modified":"2022-10-22T16:07:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T16:07:02","slug":"al-michaels-received-backlash-by-swifties-for-insulting-taylor-swifts-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/al-michaels-received-backlash-by-swifties-for-insulting-taylor-swifts-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Michaels Received Backlash By Swifties For Insulting Taylor Swift&#8217;s Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday night&#8217;s 42-34 victory over the New Orleans Saints had social media buzzing, but not for the reasons you may anticipate.\u00a0Al Michaels, the play-by-play announcer for Prime Video, made some remarks about Taylor Swift throughout the game.<\/p>\n<p>Swift teased her upcoming album &#8220;Midnights&#8221; during the program, and Michaels then went on to comment on Swift&#8217;s purported target audience.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You have four sons. Your daughter would be ecstatic if you had one. My granddaughter is currently absolutely over the moon. Taylor Swift is the most well-known member of the adolescent girl trio,<\/em> according to Michaels, who was speaking to Kirk Herbstreit on the &#8220;TNF &#8220;broadcast.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The NFL wants to be in business with Taylor Swift in part because she appeals to a demographic that the NFL would like to reach more, but Al Michaels&#39; assumption that Kirk Herbstreit&#39;s kids don&#39;t like Taylor Swift because he has sons was kinda dumb. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QB87fcRX32\">https:\/\/t.co\/QB87fcRX32<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael David Smith (@MichaelDavSmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelDavSmith\/status\/1583283833537200128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s significant to note that he did continue by calling Swift a &#8220;great performer&#8221; in response to those remarks. However, his original remarks were not warmly received on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old singer has 11 Grammy Awards to her name and is well-known to have followers among men, women, teenagers, and celebrities. But young women make up a sizable portion of her following base.\u00a0Swift&#8217;s brand has been chiefly based on the suffering that comes with relationships, maturing, and living.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hearing Al Michaels insinuate that boys can\u2019t be excited for new Taylor Swift and shaking my head the whole time to show that I don\u2019t agree with it<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lord Mersey&#39;s Wonder Emporium (@HiveFleetHodag) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HiveFleetHodag\/status\/1583281675361927168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Although Twitter generally expressed its dissatisfaction with the statements, Michaels&#8217; remarks were a reflection of his personal opinions regarding the music. Al Michaels&#8217; comments regarding Taylor Swift during the Cardinals-Saints game on &#8220;Thursday Night Football&#8221; have angered Swift fans.<\/p>\n<h2>Al Michaels Angered Swift Fans With Passive Aggressive Comments<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cAll respect to Al Michaels, but dudes can be Taylor Swift fans, too,\u201d ESPN NFL reporter<strong> Brooke Pryor <\/strong>tweeted, adding, <em>\u201cWhew, the toxic masculinity is STRONG #onhere tonight<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bepryor\/status\/1583285303854653441\">\u201c<\/a> <\/em>in a separate tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Smith of Pro Football Talk disagreed with Michaels&#8217;s remarks as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All respect to Al Michaels, but dudes can be Taylor Swift fans, too.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brooke Pryor (@bepryor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bepryor\/status\/1583280963840544768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Smith<\/strong> tweeted that Al Michaels&#8217; presumption that Kirk Herbstreit&#8217;s children don&#8217;t like Taylor Swift because he has sons was quite naive. &#8220;The NFL wants to be in business with Taylor Swift in part because she appeals to a population that the NFL would like to reach more,&#8221; Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hearing Al Michaels say that boys can&#8217;t be enthusiastic for new Taylor Swift and shaking my head the whole time to signal that I don&#8217;t agree with it,&#8221; one person tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The results are not good. 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Swift teased her upcoming album &#8220;Midnights&#8221; during the program, and Michaels then went on to comment on Swift&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":409916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[3345,3417,3418,3135],"class_list":["post-409915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-al-michaels","tag-midnight-taylor-swift","tag-swifts","tag-taylor-swift"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}