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Ravens Players Send a Strong Message to Taylor Swift With Celebratory Touchdown Dance
After scoring their first—and only—touchdown of the Chiefs-Ravens playoff game on Sunday, Jan. 28, the home team appeared to use their celebratory dance to send a message to the most famous spectator for the opposing team.
Several Ravens players rushed together after wide receiver Zay Flowers scored during the first quarter, linking arms as they dipped back and forth in a movement reminiscent of an ocean wave, doing the dance associated with the song “Swag Surfin’,” a 2009 song by the hip hop group Fast Life Yungstaz.
While the Chiefs as a whole have adopted the track and its accompanying dance this season as regular hype music, Taylor Swift specifically went viral earlier this month when she, alongside Travis Kelce’s mother, Donna, were caught on camera enthusiastically swaying back and forth with the rest of the crowd.
As a result, some people assume that the Ravens took the opportunity to directly troll the “King of My Heart” songstress, with a popular NFL meme account posting a side-by-side comparison of the two moments with the caption, “Ravens trolling Taylor Swift by swag surfing… this game is cinema.”