During Wednesday night’s CMA Awards, hosts Peyton Manning and Luke Bryan brought a little NFL-related humor to the audience at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.
The show’s opening monologue featured Bryan joking that he and Manning were hosting the show because “Travis and Taylor weren’t available,” referencing the recent romance between Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift.
The two country music awards show hosts also got in a brutal dig in at the New York Jets by Manning setting up a joke about how the difference between Swift and the Jets.
Bryan’s answer: “Taylor can sell out a stadium.” Ouch!
You can watch the full monologue below.
Manning joked after Bryan’s punchline about how he’s glad he didn’t have to deliver that joke so he wouldn’t get in trouble.
Even if country music isn’t your cup of tea, this was a pretty great joke to get the CMA Awards kicked off… unless you’re a Jets fan, of course.
