Los Angeles Chargers Take Flight Over Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift In Wild 'Sims'-Like Diss
The Los Angeles Chargers played the Kansas City Chiefs like “The Sims” on Wednesday, taking swipes at Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift in a stylized CGI video reveal of their 2024 regular season schedule.
The Chargers, who haven’t won a game against the Chiefs since 2021, mocked the Kelce brothers’ “New Heights” podcast in a “Sims”-like animation that features the Kansas City tight end discussing squirrels with former Philadelphia Eagles star Jason Kelce.
The joke is a nod to Travis Kelce writing about giving a “peice of bread” to a “squirle” in 2011 social media post.
Later in the clip, a “Sims” version of Swift waves to the Kansas City Chiefs star through a window and convinces him to get out of his seat.
The Travis Kelce figure — who is surrounded by “Sims”-themed Swift album covers on his wall — abandons the podcast to take off with Swift in a plane, a nod to the controversy surrounding the singer’s reported use of private jets.
should we REALLY make our schedule release video in the sims?
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yes yes yesyes pic.twitter.com/MXzfAPyhe8— Los Angeles Chargers (@chargers) May 16, 2024
The Chiefs, who are set to take on the Chargers in weeks 4 and 14 of the regular season, used their own schedule release to mock the Los Angeles squad by crushing a number of phone chargers in a hydraulic press in its announcement video. (The Chiefs also squished a bunch of items symbolizing all the other teams they’ll take on: peaches for the Atlanta Falcons, a plate of chicken wings for the Buffalo Bills, and so forth.)
You can check out more from the Chiefs clip below:
In honor of crushing it last season, we’re revealing our 2024 schedule by… well, you know. pic.twitter.com/hVpI4GQNlN
— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) May 16, 2024