“I don’t get why she was getting hate there,” the running back said.
Saquon Barkley doesn’t understand football fans' bad blood towardTaylor Swift.
The Philadelphia Eagles star defended the singer after audience membersbooed her during the Super Bowl.
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“I don’t get it.
I don’t get why she was getting hate there.
She was there supporting her significant other.”
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Barkley said that Swift’s presence at the games has helped widen the NFL’s audience.
She made the game bigger," he said.
We’re traveling to Brazil, we’re traveling to Mexico, apparently we’re traveling to Australia soon.
I don’t get the slack that she’s getting."
Elsewhere in the interview, Barkley definitively crownedBradley Cooperthe biggest celebrity Eagles fan, narrowly edging outKevin Hart.
“I feel like he’s, I think, at every home game.
It’s probably 1A and 1B.”
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Barkley also named a surprising celebrity whom he was most star-struck to meet.
“For me, it wasZac Efron,” he said.
And he’s a great dude.
I was able to spend a lot of time with him."
“I brought that up and he was like, ‘I’m surprised you remember that!'”
“And I was like, ‘Zac.
What are we talking about here?’
