Breaking News:Chargers 2024 schedule release hilariously rips Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift for private jet use

If recent years have taught us anything, it’s that when the NFL schedule is released sometime in the middle of May each year, the Chargers’ social media team is going to find a way to steal the show when revealing LA’s schedule. Year after year, the folks who run the Chargers Twitter account find new and creative — and sometimes merciless — ways to take shots at their opponents, using references that sometimes only the most observant fans will catch.

This year, the Chargers turned the clocks back to 2004 — man, what a time to be alive — when The Sims computer game was all the rage. And within this brilliantly constructed 3 minute, 20 second-long Sim-centric announcement video this year, nobody was safe… including America’s power couple, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and music mega-star Taylor Swift, who found themselves in the line of fire starting at the 42-second mark.

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— Los Angeles Chargers (@chargers) May 16, 2024

Not only do the Chargers take a gentle jab the Kelce Brothers’ New Heights podcast — with a nod to a 13-year-old squirle squirrel related tweet from Travis Kelce’s social media past — but then they showed Kelce and Swift’s Sim avatars boarding Swift’s private jet, which was inexplicably parked right in the middle of the street. That seems like a tremendous safety hazard if you ask me. Of course, Taylor Swift has caught some heat for using her private jet so often during her 2023 Eras Tour, racking up 178,000 miles, according to Martha Ross of The Mercury News.

At least in this case, Taylor Swift wasn’t the only one who was being criticized. Cam Newton, Kevin James, Cleveland Browns fans, Kirk Cousins, and the Patriots dynasty were among the many, many others who were called out.