Jimmy Fallon had a joke about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce in his monologue the other night, and somehow the punchline was … us.
Fallon said Travis told Taylor that he couldn’t go the Grammys because he had to focus on the Super Bowl. Her response: “I flew to Buffalo in January, but that’s cool, you do you.”
“I think people in Buffalo remember me for the totality of what I did for them, and the way I handled myself,” Norwood says. “Coach Levy had a rule: Be a good person, a good citizen in the community. And I think I did that.”
Such a joke is squarely in the tradition of the “Tonight” show. In the aftermath of the Blizzard of ’77, Johnny Carson joshed, “We could have told you Buffalo was a disaster area before President Carter’s declaration.”
We would happily endure all of the late-night comics’ Buffalo jokes if only the Bills had found their way to Super Bowl XVIII. As it is, we’ll have to settle for a week’s worth of Swiftian gags.
The question is whom to cheer for: Kansas City or San Francisco? My formula has long been to root for any original American Football League team in any Super Bowl.
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