NFL Week 3 Awards: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce weren’t enough to keep the Bears on TV

The Chicago Bears continue to reach new levels of futility. And their descent into darkness doesn’t seem like it’s ending any time soon.

On a visit to the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday, the Bears were, quite literally, ran off the field after a half. Matters grew so grim for Chicago that Fox decided to switch off their game (a nationally televised matchup!). Mind you, dear reader, this was a game that featured Taylor Swift (and her budding romance with Travis Kelce) as well as football’s best quarterback, Patrick Mahomes.

That’s right. The Bears — the NFL’s worst team — are so dreadful that the producers of a major American sports network decided they weren’t worth keeping on the TV for the sake of live shots of one of the world’s biggest music stars. Talk about an awkward situation for the league’s charter franchise, which has now lost 14 consecutive games dating back to 2022.

If Chicago loses three more games, they’ll be tied for the seventh-longest streak in NFL history since the NFL-AFL merger in 1966. If they lose six more games, they’ll be tied for the third-longest losing streak. And if they unthinkably lose out the rest of the season — 14 games! — they will be owners of the worst losing streak the league has seen in almost six decades.

Call it a hunch, but I have a feeling many network executives will want the Bears off TVs in the coming weeks. They’re just not worth the trouble right now.

While the Indianapolis Colts ended up beating the Baltimore Ravens in overtime, Gardner Minshew did his part to lose the game in an embarrassing fashion. Folks, that’s right: He’s the latest “Orlovsky” to step out of bounds in the back of the end zone. Oof.

Much ink has been and will continue to be spilled about Taylor Swift’s appearance at the Chiefs game against the Bears. But let’s not lose sight of her making it a point to hang out with the Kelce matriarch. That is a woman who definitely knows what she’s doing with her dating game:

A lot of folks wanted Mahomes to get Kelce a touchdown with Taylor Swift in the stands. After the Chiefs’ win, Mahomes admitted he felt more pressure to get Kelce in the end zone specifically because of who was watching:

Even as the Bears flailed about aimlessly, Moore was still looking out for his teammates. After Fields seemingly suffered a head injury, the receiver physically took him out of the game. We need to see more of this in the pro game: