Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce

[bk400]

Somewhat serious questions:

Will the Swifties have any near term impact on the value of Travis Kelce's cards?

How long will it take for Topps Now (or whoever is licensed to produce NFL cards) to come out with a Taylor Swift / Travis Kelce card memorializing the game over the weekend?

If she marries him, would it be bigger than Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio?

[clydepepper]

Q: Who's the great catch and who's the tight end?





(but, seriously, they make a nice looking couple)
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[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by bk400

Somewhat serious questions:

Will the Swifties have any near term impact on the value of Travis Kelce's cards?

How long will it take for Topps Now (or whoever is licensed to produce NFL cards) to come out with a Taylor Swift / Travis Kelce card memorializing the game over the weekend?

If she marries him, would it be bigger than Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio?

More like Ja-Lo and A-Rod.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by bk400

Somewhat serious questions:

Will the Swifties have any near term impact on the value of Travis Kelce's cards?

How long will it take for Topps Now (or whoever is licensed to produce NFL cards) to come out with a Taylor Swift / Travis Kelce card memorializing the game over the weekend?

If she marries him, would it be bigger than Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio?

1. Doubt it
2. Probably not long
3. No

[Peter_Spaeth]

The celebrity worship in this country is really sick IMO. And the vast majority of the celebs are pampered, egomaniacal, self-consumed horror shows. About the last people worthy of that kind of attention. There are exceptions.

[JollyElm]

She is the living embodiment of fingernails on a chalkboard. (The 3 seconds it took to write this is the only time I'll ever waste on that a-hole of a narcissist again.)

[bk400]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisad...h=73d8ee276877

States ranked by number of Taylor Swift fans (https://www.wlwt.com/article/ohio-ha...ort/44477419):
1. Ohio
2. Minnesota
3. Missouri
4. Kentucky
5. Mississippi

To summarize the above, for better or for worse, Taylor Swift is to representative America as Derek Jeter is to Manhattan. If she starts posting about Travis Kelce and the Chiefs, watch out...

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by bk400

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisad...h=73d8ee276877

States ranked by number of Taylor Swift fans (https://www.wlwt.com/article/ohio-ha...ort/44477419):
1. Ohio
2. Minnesota
3. Missouri
4. Kentucky
5. Mississippi

To summarize the above, for better or for worse, Taylor Swift is to representative America as Derek Jeter is to Manhattan. If she starts posting about Travis Kelce and the Chiefs, watch out...

And how long until their breakup dominates the tabloids and social media and she writes some heartachy song about him? Yawn.

[Nunzio11]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

The celebrity worship in this country is really sick IMO. And the vast majority of the celebs are pampered, egomaniacal, self-consumed horror shows. About the last people worthy of that kind of attention. There are exceptions.

Agreed Peter. I have feeling this is all a big set up anyway. Interesting that the Kelce brothers have a show out on Amazon Prime, the same company with exclusive streaming rights to Thursday night football and some playoffs. Why not bring the biggest pop start in the world into the mix as she just concluded the US leg of her tour and pick up some headlines, likes and non NFL viewers. Whole thing sounds fixed to me.

[Snapolit1]

Taylor Swift is nowhere even close to being on my list of top one million things wrong with this world.

All I see is a young artist with real music skills who seems to bring joy to the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

[GasHouseGang]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Taylor Swift is nowhere even close to being on my list of top one million things wrong with this world.

All I see is a young artist with real music skills who seems to bring joy to the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

I agree. She actually has musical talent and writes her own songs. I remember when my teen daughter asked me to buy Taylor's first CD at Target. The employee's had never heard of her and had to go in the back to find me a copy. Things have certainly changed.

[packs]

Originally Posted by Nunzio11

Agreed Peter. I have feeling this is all a big set up anyway. Interesting that the Kelce brothers have a show out on Amazon Prime, the same company with exclusive streaming rights to Thursday night football and some playoffs. Why not bring the biggest pop start in the world into the mix as she just concluded the US leg of her tour and pick up some headlines, likes and non NFL viewers. Whole thing sounds fixed to me.

This is my new favorite conspiracy theory. I can't tell who has anything to gain from it but that's what tells me it's got legs.

[todeen]

I'm not a Swiftie, but I applaud her. She is the biggest pop singer in the world and her music is free from drugs and relatively free from sex. But filled with drama! And she is good at creating lines that are memorable.

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[todeen]

I don't know if Swift/Kelce equals ARod & JLo, or Brady & Gisele, or even Monroe & Dimaggio. But what I do know is Swift is definitely a bigger cultural symbol than JLo and Monroe. Swift tweeted to her fans to register to vote. The next day 35k Swifties registered to vote. This weekend, Swift has influenced the secondary ticket market for Chiefs tickets for just being in the stadium.

I need to add that my niece, 16, is a Swiftie. My Bro-in-law through his Costco membership received pre-sale perks to buy her Eras Tour tickets at box office prices. He bought two tickets. My sister and niece went and had a spectacular time. My niece bought a semi-formal dress, and made dozens of bracelets to trade with other Swifties. We thought it was weird and worried she might be setting herself up for failure. My sister said when they got to the stadium, at least 50% of the teen girls looked like my niece in gowns and dresses with bracelets up to their elbows. Everyone was trading bracelets and having a good time. Very few men in sight. NYT reported because so few men attended the events, men's bathrooms became de facto women's bathrooms.

Anyway, my niece came home gushing about how awesome the concert was and how great a time she had.

To me, Swift is a great role model for teen girls. She's smart, kinda dorky, very original and creative, business savvy, charitable. She's not a sex symbol as far as I know. She doesn't promote drugs. I can see why my niece follows her. And it's probably why her concert tour was a global smash hit.

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[Peter_Spaeth]

I'm too old to understand the appeal or the culture, but I agree she doesn't seem trashy and if her worst sin is a series of failed public romances so be it.