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That is getting foolish.
It was already foolish, to make sure, however now the entire Taylor Swift/NFL/Travis Kelce/Tremendous Bowl factor is actually getting surreal and greater than a bit off the rails.
Right here’s the newest: Japan’s embassy in Washington D.C. has launched a press release about Swift’s journey plans.
In different phrases: As a result of a pop singer has to fly from performing reveals in Tokyo to Las Vegas to look at a soccer sport on a comparatively brief schedule, the Embassy of Japan has one thing to say that features the requisite Swift tune puns.
“The Embassy of Japan in the USA is conscious of current media reviews regarding the steps Taylor Swift might want to take to journey from Tokyo after her live performance on February tenth to Las Vegas in time to look at the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs play in Tremendous Bowl LVIII,” the statement solemnly begins. “Regardless of the 12-hour flight and 17-hour time distinction, the Embassy can confidently Communicate Now to say that if she departs Tokyo within the night after her live performance, she ought to comfortably arrive in Las Vegas earlier than the Tremendous Bowl begins. We all know that many individuals in Japan are excited to expertise Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, so we wished to substantiate that anybody involved could be Fearless in figuring out that this gifted performer can wow Japanese audiences and nonetheless make it to Las Vegas to help the Chiefs after they take the sector for the Tremendous Bowl carrying Purple.”
Swift’s journey plan has been mentioned somewhat endlessly for the reason that Chiefs gained their AFC Championship sport on Sunday, assuring their place within the large sport.
Maybe the most effective explainer got here from this viral clip from The West Wing, the place the president’s crew grappled with the same Japan-to-U.S. journey schedule.
This week, Swift has additionally been the main target of right-wing conspiracy theories, the place some actually imagine that her romance with the Chiefs tight finish is all a Pentagon psychological operation to inject the singer’s left-of-center politics into the NFL. The conspiracies additionally embody that this season’s soccer video games have been secretly rigged to guarantee that the Chiefs will win the Tremendous Bowl, the place Swift will take the sector throughout the halftime present to announce her endorsement of Joe Biden’s re-election marketing campaign.
And none of that’s even moving into the entire AI deepfake nude photographs scandal from simply final week.
Tremendous Bowl LVIII will likely be broadcast on CBS and streamed stay on Paramount+ beginning at 3:30 p.m. PT on Feb. 11.
Who will win the sport is anyone’s guess, but it surely’s a secure wager that, till then, the extent of Swift obsession is simply going to maintain rising.
