Will Taylor be at the sport on Sunday?
As Travis Kelce has seen success on the area, Taylor Swift has been cheering him on.
The crossover romance has taken their followers by storm.
Travis has one other sport this weekend, and and the stakes are excessive. Will Taylor be there?
In latest months, Taylor Swift’s attendance at Travis Kelce’s video games has develop into an web meme — and the topic of cringe awards present jokes.
She has additionally taken to carrying Chiefs gears. Her fondness for fangirl regalia has additionally unfold to her followers.
Some have been already soccer followers. Others have watched her romance and gone: “Okay, I’ll chew: what’s ‘soccer?‘” However they’re all supporting Taylor — and, by extension, her man.
This is not any atypical sport
On Sunday, Travis Kelce and his workforce, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, will play in opposition to one other workforce: the Baltimore Ravens.
The January 28 face-off is the American Soccer Convention title sport. And, as we stated, the stakes are excessive.
The winner of this sport will play in the Tremendous Bowl. For a lot of of Taylor’s followers, that is the first that they (okay, we) are studying how the Tremendous Bowl is determined.
Will Taylor Swift be at the sport?
To date, Taylor Swift has attended all of Travis’ playoff video games throughout this era referred to as the “postseason.”
Because it occurs, this busy time for Travis has coincided together with her “Eras Tour” haitus.
She’s had loads of time to cheer him on and, so far as anybody is aware of, has no prior commitments that ought to maintain her from the January 28 sporting occasion.
Nonetheless, to this point, Taylor has not made any announcement or supplied some other affirmation that she is going to seem at the Baltimore sport.
Equally, Travis has not mentioned the matter — neither to substantiate nor deny her attendance.
Just a few days in the past, the head coach of the Ravens, John Harbaugh, laughed off questions at a press convention about whether or not he anticipated Taylor to attend — wherein case, she would probably be cheering in opposition to his workforce.
Taylor and Travis’ followers have complicated emotions about her sport attendance
Some soccer followers — whether or not they’re rooting for the Chiefs or not — are feeling fatigue about the highlight on Taylor.
There are sturdy components of misogyny behind a few of the grumbling about how usually cameras present Taylor in the stands.
Nonetheless, there’s a good level about how soccer followers could also be there to observe the sports activities and never different followers — irrespective of how well-known.
In the meantime, a lot of Taylor’s followers are feeling some fatigue from the different finish of the spectrum.
Those that have adopted alongside are studying extra about this sport than they ever needed or wanted to.
Many people may have lived a thousand lifetimes with out figuring out what a “postseason” is, or which sport decides the “Tremendous Bowl,” or precisely when the Tremendous Bowl takes place. (However keep in mind, it’s a good time for gross sales on sure snack meals!)
Each teams of followers can chill
To these grumbling followers, we might remind everybody that … being a fan is an elective, voluntary exercise.
Not for Donna Kelce, perhaps. However for anybody else who’s a fan of Travis, you possibly can simply ignore the Taylor elements.
And anybody who’s extra focused on Taylor’s music and activism and doesn’t care about who kicks (or runs with, I feel?) a sharp ball, we’d observe that you just don’t have to observe her stadium seat appearances.
As for Taylor attending the sport this Sunday? Nearly everybody assumes that she is going to.
If she doesn’t, perhaps one thing’s up. Or perhaps she’s busy, and cheering him on regardless.
And, if all goes properly for him, she’ll proceed to cheer him on subsequent month, throughout the sport that occurs earlier than and after the Halftime present.