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Peyton Manning, Luke Bryan Crushed the Jets With a Harsh Taylor Swift Joke at CMAs

The team had a perfect response.

Andy Nesbitt

Peyton Manning, Luke Bryan Crushed the Jets With a Harsh Taylor Swift Joke at CMAs
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The annual CMA Awards show was held Wednesday night in Nashville and one NFL team got completely roasted by an NFL legend and a country music legend at the start of the broadcast. 

We’re talking, of course, about the New York Jets. 

Peyton Manning and Luke Bryant hosted the show and during their monologue, they took a funny shot at Aaron Rodgers’s (who has been out with an Achilles injury since Week 1) team, which fell to 4–4 on the season with an ugly loss at home to the Chargers on Monday night.  

New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers runs on to the field at MetLife Stadium before their Week 1 game against the Buffalo Bills.
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers runs on to the field at MetLife Stadium before their Week 1 game against the Buffalo Bills.  / Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports

Check out this joke by Manning and Bryant, which had the crowd in hysterics:

Ouch! 

The Jets quickly fired back: 

Jets fans were not happy at all: 

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Andy Nesbitt
ANDY NESBITT

Andy Nesbitt is the assistant managing editor of audience engagement at Sports Illustrated. He works closely with the Breaking and Trending News team to shape SI’s daily coverage across all sports. A 20-year veteran of the sports media business, he has worked for Fox Sports, For the Win, The Boston Globe and NBC Sports, having joined SI in February 2023. Nesbitt is a golf fanatic who desperately wants to see the Super Bowl played on a Saturday night.

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