Questioning if Taylor Swift could make it from Tokyo to Las Vegas in time for the Super Bowl? Drained. Questioning if she will spend Valentine’s Day in Kansas City and make it to Melbourne, Australia in time for her subsequent Eras Tour date? Very, very wired.
The query is not an interesting one as a result of I assume that Swift and her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce, are followers of the martyr-based vacation, nor do I consider that February 14 has particular that means to Swift because of her function in Garry Marshall’s 2010 romantic comedy, Valentine’s Day. (She’s not a cheerleader, she’s on the dance crew.) As a substitute, it is as a result of if the Chiefs win the Super Bowl on February 11, the crew’s victory parade will likely be held on February 14, Kansas City’s metropolis council agreed this week.
As anybody who’s traveled internationally is aware of, going to work, then flying 13 hours, then going to a important different’s work occasion the day after that flight is hardly remarkable, regardless of breathless headlines to the opposite. If of us who fly commercially can do it, a billionaire with two personal jets, a 17-hour time acquire, and the help of the nation of Japan could make it work, of us.
If all goes as deliberate, Swift will likely be in Nevada the night time earlier than the Chiefs take the area in opposition to the San Francisco 49ers for the so-called Large Sport. And if there is not room for Swift’s jet at the 4 airports nearest Allegiant Stadium, as the San Francisco Chronicle advised (with hope in its coronary heart, maybe, as Kelce mentioned Friday that the help he will get from Swift provides him “a cause to play that a lot tougher”), she has time to land additional away and drive. It’s solely 270 miles or so from LA correct to Las Vegas, which, by Midwestern requirements, is a fast and simple jaunt.
That jaunt will get tougher when Swift returns to the street. That 17 hours Swift positive aspects on her journey from Tokyo to Vegas for the Super Bowl will likely be misplaced when she travels to the Melbourne Cricket Floor in Melbourne, Australia, the place she’s set to carry out on Friday, February 16. The present begins at 6 p.m. native time, which is 1 a.m. Friday CT. If Swift expects to be absolutely rested and able to carry out her bodily demanding set, she’ll have to journey properly earlier than then.
“It’s the largest jinx of all time, however we did the similar factor final 12 months — though everybody may need forgotten,” Kansas City, Missouri mayor Quinton Lucas mentioned of the metropolis’s parade plans. The $975,000 parade could be the metropolis’s fourth since 2015 and will (if it occurs) wind by downtown earlier than ending in a rally at Union Station, KSHB experiences. Whereas Swift actually wouldn’t be the central determine in a celebration of the crew, it is doubtless her look is hoped for—and if she leaves straight after the rally, she may be in nice form for a present in the following days. As together with her journey to Nevada, different working individuals have doubtless performed worse.
In the meantime, in San Francisco, officers are far much less forthcoming in the case of a Niners celebration. Sources inform the Chronicle if warranted, a parade will likely be held in downtown San Francisco on February 15.
It’s price noting that regardless of their title, the 49ers really play about 50 miles away, in the metropolis of Santa Clara. That metropolis’s mayor, Lisa Gillmor, mentioned Santa Clara would like to host the parade, however the crew “must help it financially” as “we’re not in a place to try this.” In the meantime, San Francisco—which is dealing with an $800 million funds shortfall—has but to put aside funds for a attainable parade.