Taylor Swift Watches Chiefs Win Tremendous Bowl

The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs gained their third Tremendous Bowl title within the final 5 seasons by beating the San Francisco 49ers in extra time, 25-22, on Sunday. Whereas some N.F.L. gamers go their total profession with out profitable a championship, one in all Kansas Metropolis’s newcomers got here away a winner of their thirteenth sport.

Taylor Swift, who has been relationship Travis Kelce, Kansas Metropolis’s star tight finish, modified the N.F.L. dialog all season, attracting a brand new viewers for the league and provoking robust feelings (each optimistic and adverse) amongst followers. And, as anticipated, she was at the stadium and cheering on Mr. Kelce and the Chiefs of their come-from-behind win.

After the sport, Ms. Swift went down to the field to have a good time with Donna Kelce and the remainder of Kansas Metropolis’s family and friends.

So she made it?

Ms. Swift, as you might have heard, is sweet at preserving secrets and techniques. Her plans, past live performance dates, are not often introduced prematurely. That has led some to plan their very own strategies for determining what she’s as much as. Forward of a Kansas Metropolis sport in October, for instance, an NBC producer stated he had a spotter airplane looking the realm round MetLife Stadium for police escorts in hopes of alerting the tv crew if she confirmed up (she did).

Mr. Kelce was inundated with questions on Ms. Swift final week, and whereas he stated he had heard a few of her upcoming album — spoiler: he likes it — he didn’t supply any particulars about whether or not she can be on the sport.

However she arrived at Allegiant Stadium on Sunday afternoon in time for the sport. She walked the tunnels of the stadium sporting a black top and pants whereas carrying a crimson jacket over her shoulder — and sporting a customized diamond and gold necklace by Stephanie Gottlieb with Mr. Kelce’s No. 87 on it — after which headed as much as the posh suites.

The CBS broadcast didn’t present her a lot in a quiet first half for Mr. Kelce and Kansas Metropolis, however she was proven routinely because the group got here again to win the sport, with Mr. Kelce offering a number of key performs within the fourth quarter and extra time.

She certain was. Her Eras Tour resumed lately, and on Saturday night time in Tokyo she carried out one more marathon set of her in depth catalog of songs. With flights from Tokyo to Las Vegas usually taking 13 hours or extra, and human beings requiring sleep, some frightened she may not make the sport.

The Japanese Embassy in Washington pointed out that timing was not an actual hurdle for Ms. Swift. Initially, a non-public jet shortens the journey (and offers a spot to sleep peacefully if wanted). Second of all, the worldwide date line was her pal.

In 1873, earlier than the worldwide date line formally existed, the creator Jules Verne mapped out Ms. Swift’s time benefit in “Across the World in 80 Days.” Within the e-book, the protagonist Phileas Fogg believes he has misplaced his guess solely to comprehend the space and path of his travels had saved him:

In journeying eastward he had gone in direction of the solar, and the times due to this fact diminished for him as many occasions 4 minutes as he crossed levels on this path. There are 300 and sixty levels on the circumference of the earth; and these 300 and sixty levels, multiplied by 4 minutes, offers exactly twenty-four hours — that’s, the day unconsciously gained. In different phrases, whereas Phileas Fogg, going eastward, noticed the solar cross the meridian eighty occasions, his mates in London solely noticed it cross the meridian seventy-nine occasions. Because of this they awaited him on the Reform Membership on Saturday, and never Sunday, as Mr. Fogg thought.

Or, as “The West Wing” summarized extra succinctly in a scene that mentioned President Bartlett’s journey from Tokyo to Washington, D.C. (and that recently went viral on-line):

Josh: He’s gonna land in Washington an hour earlier than he took off?
Sam: Yeah.

For older generations, these scenes helped clarify the logistics of the worldwide date line. For Gen Z and youthful, their body of reference will doubtless be … when Taylor Swift flew to Las Vegas for the Tremendous Bowl.

In the course of the common season, Ms. Swift attended quite a few video games in Kansas Metropolis whereas seated in a luxurious suite managed by Mr. Kelce’s shut pal and longtime teammate, Patrick Mahomes. She appeared to develop into quick mates with Mr. Mahomes’s spouse, Brittany, and was usually seen with different members of the Mahomes household.

She has additionally frolicked at video games with Mr. Kelce’s dad and mom, Donna and Ed, and her personal father, mom and brother got here together with her to a sport on Christmas. Throughout Ms. Swift’s journey to New Jersey for a Chiefs-Jets sport she was seated with mates just like the actors Ryan Reynolds and Blake Vigorous.

At a playoff sport in Buffalo final month, she and Kylie Kelce had been amongst these proven reacting to Jason Kelce’s shirtless bellowing and fraternizing with the gang.

And on the A.F.C. championship sport in Baltimore, she was surrounded by Mr. Kelce’s household and associates, together with Donna and Ed Kelce, Jason and Kylie Kelce and Mr. Kelce’s managers, Aaron and André Eanes. There have been additionally a couple of of Ms. Swift’s mates, just like the actress Keleigh Teller and the mannequin Cara Delevingne.

For the Tremendous Bowl, it was an identical crowd, with the Kelces, the Eanes brothers and Ms. Vigorous there with Ms. Swift and her household. Additions to the everyday crew, when it comes to who she was proven with in the course of the sport, included the rapper Ice Spice — who entered the stadium with Ms. Swift — and the singer Lana Del Rey.

Nobody ever appeared to thoughts Jack Nicholson being a fixture at Los Angeles Lakers video games, or Spike Lee being more associated with the New York Knicks than many of the group’s gamers. Drake received solely a slap on the wrist when he started strolling onto the courtroom throughout timeouts at Toronto Raptors playoff video games. However despite the fact that Ms. Swift receives comparatively little airtime in the course of the broadcasts of Kansas Metropolis’s video games, she has develop into a goal for many who nonetheless assume she’s getting outsize consideration.

“The eye is there as a result of the viewers needs to see it,” Jason Kelce, brother of Travis, stated in an interview throughout final week’s Professional Bowl festivities. “If folks didn’t wish to see it they wouldn’t be displaying it.”

As Ms. Swift put it, “a couple of dads, Brads, and Chads” could also be indignant, however the TV networks are thrilled. A rankings evaluation by The Upshot indicated that she very nicely could also be a driving issue for the league’s elevated viewers. Coach Andy Reid of the Chiefs has repeatedly stated that he’s comfortable to have her round, and the N.F.L., which is having fun with an sudden enlargement of its built-in viewers, has totally embraced her affiliation with the league.

“N.F.L. followers are available in all sorts — even international sensations,” stated Alex Riethmiller, an N.F.L. spokesman. “We’re glad to have Taylor on board.”

That is Taylor, certainly there was some numerology concerned?

Ms. Swift has stated she loves the quantity 13, and her followers can seemingly discover it in all places. Within the case of this 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl, the examples are plentiful:

• Tremendous Bowl 58 (5+8=13)

• Feb. 11, 2/11 (2+11=13)

• Kansas Metropolis is taking part in the 49ers (4+9=13)

• The 49ers had been the No. 1 seed within the N.F.C., whereas the Chiefs had been the No. 3 seed within the A.F.C. (1 and three — 13)

• That is the thirteenth N.F.L. sport Ms. Swift has attended this season

It was unclear going into the day if it was an excellent or dangerous signal that San Francisco’s beginning quarterback, Brock Purdy, wears No. 13. However ultimately that didn’t matter, as Ms. Swift’s thirteenth N.F.L. sport ended with a Chiefs win.