American model and actress Kate Upton caused a controversy by revealing live on a TV show that she was banned from wearing something at a big sports event.
Upton
admittedly changed her baseball allegiances from the New York Yankees
to Detroit Tigers after she officially began dating superstar Justin Verlander in 2013. And hey, nobody should hold that against her.
She
just wants to stand by her man and support his team. However, it sounds
like that very public change-of-heart led to some awkward moments when
she visited Yankee Stadium last week.
As
you've probably seen or heard by now, Upton was seated directly behind
the Tigers' dugout to watch Verlander's Tigers play against the Yankees.
At one point, they even had a fun exchange where Upton finally convinced Verlander to toss her a souvenir baseball.
It
was a light-hearted and fun moment, but apparently that's as far as the
Yankees were willing to let her go to show her support for Detroit.
While
filling in on a TV show, Upton revealed to her co-host that the Yankees
specifically told her she couldn't wear any Tigers' gear while sitting
in the Legends seats at Yankee Stadium.
The Detroit Free Press quoted the piece.
“I used to be a really big Yankees fan,” Upton told Strahan, before continuing: “But I’m sleeping with the enemy.”
“My boyfriend plays for the Tigers,” Upton said. “I had to pick a side. And I felt it too, when I walked in. The Yankees told me, ‘You’re not allowed to wear a Tigers hat. You’re not allowed to wear any Tigers gear.’ It’s like a bad breakup.”
A bitter breakup even.
Then
again, this could be a similar situation to last season when Arizona
Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick asked Los Angeles Dodgers fans seated in
the home plate box seats to change out of their Dodgers gear or change
seats because they don't want fans featured prominently on camera
wearing opposing colours.
It's
not clear what the current Yankees policy is on that, so maybe someone
more familiar with the Legends Seats can shed some light on that.
It's funny,
too, because we noted the famous "Seinfeld" scene where Elaine refuses
to remove her Baltimore Orioles cap at Yankees Stadium during the
Kendrick story.
It almost makes us wish Upton had defied the orders so we could have seen that scene come to life. Maybe in October!
It's
also worth mentioning that Upton says she'll still wear her Yankees hat
from time to time, but only to make Verlander angry before a start.
“He actually told me ‘I like to be angry before I pitch.’ He didn’t tell me before, so he’d seem like he was in a bad mood before he pitched, so I’d be like joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, trying to cheer him up. And then he got mad at me, he was like, ‘Stop making me laugh, I’m trying to be angry.’ I went straight to wearing a Yankees cap.
“He always says anytime we’re fighting I wear a Yankees hat. And when we’re getting along I’m wearing a Detroit hat.”
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