C.J. Gardner-Johnson is taking his feud with the Swifties to a whole new — and vile — level.
The Eagles’ Super Bowl-winning defensive back wore a “Swifties can LIX my balls” hoodie to the championship parade Friday, as documented by popular Philadelphia sports blog Crossing Broad.
Gardner-Johnson started this feud when he posted to Instagram after the Eagles’ 40-22 triumph in Super Bowl 2025 a photo of him and Travis Kelce, the boyfriend of mega popstar Taylor Swift, in one another’s face during the beatdown.
The defensive back captioned the photo by stating that Kelce “should’ve stayed with that thick s–t,” in reference to Kelce’s previous relationship with Kayla Nicole.
Both Swift and Nicole attended Sunday’s game, which featured Kelce having a horrible night with just four catches for 39 yards and Gardner-Johnson being credited with three total tackles, including one solo.
It appeared the Swifties — the term used to refer to Swift’s massive fan base — responded to Gardner-Johnson’s dig by barraging his mother’s Florida restaurant with negative reviews.
The Yelp page for Kings Grill in Rockledge, Fla. had a note stating, “This business is being monitored by Yelp’s Support team for content related to media reports.”
However, his mother, Delatron Johnson, told TMZ that the restaurant had closed Jan. 25.
“I have friends who were sending me the screenshots,” Delatron said to TMZ. “They were going, ‘Oh my god, look at this!’ And the first thing everyone said was, ‘the Swifties have attacked.’
“Yes, we’ve seen all the reviews. The joke is really on the Swifties and everyone entertaining the reviews because Kings Grill is closed.”
Delatron told the outlet the bad reviews had no bearing on them since they are in the process of selling the restaurant, and she defended her trash-talking son.
“We’ve been dealing with this since he was a kid,” she added, saying her son hasn’t changed how he plays football or trash talks since he was young.
“He talks the talk ’cause he can back it up,” she told TMZ. “The same thing with his mother, I talk the talk because I can back it up.”
