Trash-talking a man over his $100 million podcast deal takes creativity. Baltimore Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey is indeed a very creative man.
Ahead of Thursday night’s season-opening AFC championship rematch against the Kansas City Chiefs, Humphrey says it’s a battle of his pod versus Travis Kelce’s.
On the latest episode of his podcast, “Punch Line,” Humphrey called attention to “New Heights,” the podcast hosted by Travis Kelce and his brother Jason.
In a tongue-in-cheek, somewhat sarcastic manner, Humphrey called attention to the nine-figure deal that the Kelce brothers struck with Amazon.
“I pray for this, to go against him because he has tried to take everything from me,” Humphrey said during the show on Monday.
“He tried to take it all from me. He has got to pay. He has got to pay for what he has done to the podcast space. How he has tried to eliminate us.
“And, honestly, I don’t care who he’s dating,” Humphrey said, in a direct reference to Kelce’s girlfriend, pop star Taylor Swift.
“Did they get engaged?… Sept. 6 [the Ravens-Chiefs AFC championship rematch] it’ll be pod versus pod and we’ll see what heights is higher.”
These days, it’s impossible to talk about Kelce and not reference Swift, at least in some way, and Humphrey’s co-host, Jack Settleman, was there to make the subtle reference to the ultra-popular songstress overt.
“Would you trash talk him and be like, ‘Oh, Taylor’s music is kinda trash?’” Settleman asked.
Humphrey said that when he talks trash to Kelce on the field, the topic is strictly football. He then went on to say that if he were to speak trash about Swift on the field, the two of them might start laughing.
“Because we’ve kinda been out, but I’m gonna say it anyway. If he started laughing, I’ll just laugh back. If he laughed, I’d laugh back,” Humphrey added.
He then invited Kelce and, of course, Taylor Swift to be future guests on his podcast.
Humphrey and Settleman hope that America’s beloved power couple will someday accept the offer. That would no doubt “move the needle” for the Punchline podcast.
They would most likely set new personal records for listenership.