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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — There was nary on-field solemnisation for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce aft this Super Bowl. Only consolation acold distant from the prying TV cameras.
The popular superstar turned up astatine the large crippled for the 2nd consecutive twelvemonth arsenic her fellow and the Kansas City Chiefs tried to marque past by winning a 3rd consecutive Lombardi Trophy. Instead, Swift recovered herself booed by a pro-Eagles assemblage and past had to endure their countless cheers arsenic Philadelphia rolled to a 40-22 triumph astatine the Superdome.
Last year, Swift and Kelce locked lips connected the tract astatine Allegiant Stadium successful Las Vegas arsenic reddish and golden confetti fell similar rainfall aft the Chiefs won their 2nd consecutive Super Bowl — the duo's archetypal since becoming a sports-and-music powerfulness couple.
That was a celebratory matter for Swift each night: She won a beer-chugging contention to raucous cheers from the pro-Chiefs crowd, and she spent the crippled partying with personage friends including Blake Lively and Lana Del Rey.
Yet overmuch has changed implicit the past 12 months. Many sports fans person turned against Swift, whom they judge gets acold excessively overmuch tv clip during NFL games. And adjacent much fans person turned against the Chiefs, who person replaced the Patriots of Tom Brady arsenic the juggernaut that NFL fans emotion to hate.
So it wasn't astonishing that Swift was booed erstwhile shown connected the videoboards alongside rapper Ice Spice during a interruption successful the archetypal 4th Sunday night. She gave a spot of a side-eye look and wrinkled her chemoreceptor erstwhile she realized the boos were for her.
By the 2nd half, and with the Eagles successful control, the cameras were staying distant from her entirely, and aft the game, President Donald Trump took a excavation astatine Swift, who endorsed Kamala Harris successful past year's election.
“The lone 1 that had a tougher nighttime than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift,” Trump posted connected societal media. “She got BOOED retired of the Stadium. MAGA is precise unforgiving!”
Swift and Kelce became a mates aboriginal past season, erstwhile the four-time All-Pro choky extremity invited the songstress to ticker him play successful a crippled against the Bears. Kelce had famously tried and failed to present a relationship bracelet to Swift erstwhile she had played astatine Arrowhead Stadium, but she took him up connected the connection to be a crippled and their narration blossomed.
Perhaps being unopen retired astatine the Grammy Awards past week was a harbinger of a long, hard night. In 2024, she had won medium of the twelvemonth for her 14th vocation Grammy a week earlier joining Kelce for their on-field Super Bowl celebration.
That week was arguably highest Taylor and Travis, not that their stardom has dimmed since. In 2024, aft the Grammys, she was successful the midst of her Eras Tour and had played a performance successful Tokyo earlier making a huffy dash to Las Vegas for the game.
This twelvemonth she eased into the Big Easy, arriving successful clip to articulation Kelce connected a treble day with Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany, connected Friday night. The couples dined astatine Lilette, a French edifice adjacent the Garden District.
On the eve of the large game, Swift was spotted with musicians Danielle and Alana Haim astatine Gianna Restaurant.
The large question swirling aboriginal Sunday was what mightiness hap if Kelce won a 3rd consecutive Super Bowl ringing and 4th overall. Would helium prime specified a festive infinitesimal to propose? BetMGM Sportsbook gave 8/1 likelihood for those consenting to wager connected it.
That anticipation was snuffed retired good earlier the crippled was over.
The Chiefs fell to 19-4 with Swift successful the crowd, and Sunday was the archetypal clip she saw them suffer successful the playoffs.
“We haven’t played that atrocious each year. You don’t suffer similar that without everything going bad,” Kelce said.
Now, the question is whether the 35-year-old Kelce — who made himself scarce successful the postgame locker country — volition beryllium backmost for different Super Bowl run. He has been noncommittal astir playing adjacent year, and immoderate wrong the Chiefs enactment are bracing for a imaginable status aft a record-setting vocation that volition astir surely onshore him successful the Hall of Fame.
Kelce has been laying the groundwork for his post-playing vocation for years. He has a lucrative podcast with his brother, retired Eagles halfway Jason Kelce, and has hosted crippled shows and adjacent tried his manus astatine acting this past offseason.
“I’ll fto Travis marque that determination connected his own,” said Mahomes, his closest buddy connected the team. “He knows helium inactive has a batch of shot near successful him. I mean, you tin spot it. He ever makes plays successful the biggest moment, but it’s if helium wants to enactment successful that grind, due to the fact that it takes it takes it to spell retired determination and play 20 games, immoderate it is, and get to the Super Bowl.
“He’s done capable to beryllium a gold-jacket feline and first-ballot Hall of Famer,” Mahomes added, “but I cognize helium inactive has emotion for the game, and he’ll get to walk immoderate clip with his household and marque that determination connected his own.”
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Dalton reported from Los Angeles.
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