Super Bowl LIX could add to Mr Taylor Swift’s legacy

Future Hall of Famer Travis Kelce now picks his moments and winning a fourth Super Bowl ring with the Kansas City Chiefs may well be yet another of them, writes Luke Baker

- Luke Baker

During the build-up to tomorrow's Super Bowl LIX, no one's words have been more heavily scrutinised than Travis Kelce's. That comes with the territory when you're Mr Taylor Swift.

Being in a relationship with the most famous woman on the planet means that when you answer a question about Donald Trump becoming the first sitting US president in history to attend the NFL showpiece, your comments gain traction.

“I think no matter who the president is, I know I’m excited because it’s the biggest game of my life and having the president there... It’s the best country in the world. So, that’d be pretty cool,” Kansas City Chiefs star Kelce said, fairly innocuously, during a press conference earlier this week.

Cue online outrage. Swift’s legion of fans were largely quick to condemn her boyfriend for tacitly supporting the presence of Trump, given the pop megastar’s history with the president.

Ahead of November’s US election, Swift endorsed Democratic candidate Kamala Harris as she released a lengthy Instagram post in which she concluded that Harris “fights for the rights and causes I believe”.

She signed off her post “Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady” in a dig at the now vice-president JD Vance, who, in a dig at the then vice-president Harris, had claimed in a 2021 interview that the US was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too”.