I don’t follow sports nor care enough about pop music to really know what was going on. I truly though she would be performing with the sheer amount of press on the matter even here. What the hell did Republicans think she was going to do inside a luxury box other than have weirdos snap photos of her drinking beer?

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    Wasn’t the Superbowl in November around American Thanksgiving or something?

    Anyways, you’re going to have to answer for your part on why “we” cared.

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        Damn. Isn’t there some football thing around American Thanksgiving? Or did I just imagine that up? Lol

        Either way, both of those months seem too cold to me for outdoor sports that aren’t on ice. Especially February, which is in Winter. It’s fun how different things can be in different places.

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          There’s usually a game on Thanksgiving, but that’s kind of just because of how the schedule works out. It’s a regular season game, nothing special.

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      November / American Thanksgiving is towards the end of college football season, and when they tend to schedule rivalry games.

      Blue School and Red School have been playing each other for 80 years, current record is 37-43. Who will win this time? Drink some Bud Light and find out!

      Except they don’t drink Bud Light anymore because the trans people stole it somehow. So drink water, I guess?

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    Because you’re talking about her. She generates clicks and even if you didn’t give her a click you’re spreading the word for them.

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    Apart from the more normie reasons, she’s also infamous for her carbon footprint with her jet shuffling here and there.

    I don’t care whatever political agenda they push on her. The carbon footprint (and singer) factor is more realistic.

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    Are you new to outrage media? Of course Swift was going to do nothing. Republicans knew it. They are still going to leverage the situation to drive ad clicks and campaign donations though. $$$.

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    We don’t, but she’s a famous music star dating a famous football star, who is in the game.

    Advertising runs the world, and whatever gets more clicks and eyeballs gets paid, so everyone has a reason to hype it.

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    We don’t.

    Right wing cultist morons do, because I guess they think that everything is somehow a giant conspiracy against Trump, because thinking that helps them process and cope with the fact that Trump is always in the news for saying and doing bad or dumb shit.

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    I cared a little. But in my defense, I don’t pay attention to football at all except for the Superbowl, and even then it’s tentative. I honestly thought she was performing the halftime show with the way everyone was going on about it. I didn’t even know Usher was performing until I put the game on.

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    Because she’s that popular.

    I’m willing to bet there were a comfortable 7 figures worth of extra viewers just because she was at the game.

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      Oh yeah, it’s the NFL deciding on who to show on camera. Ignoring an untapped market of Swifties that tune in to watch football now just because she supports a team would be an idiotic business decision.

      If anyone gets mad at someone here, they should be mad at the NFL, it’s a business like any other business, also don’t forget to USE THE TEMU APP, SHOP LIKE A BILLIONAIRE

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        It’s CBS. The NFL doesn’t run the broadcast. But not Taylor Swift lol. I don’t think she even did anything to draw attention to it besides existing.

        I actually enjoyed seeing her in the stands, though. She was very clearly emotionally invested in the game, and I thought her reactions were genuine and added to the broadcast.

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    She’s famous and pretty. That means her attendance is a form of approval and this makes swift fans fuzzy inside plus it’s an opportunity to be in the same space as her.

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    Most of us didn’t. Some did because she’s a famous pop star dating one of the star players on the KC team. There was also a right wing conspiracy theory that the game was going to be rigged for KC to win so that Swift could somehow get more support for Biden. I didn’t quite understand how that was supposed to work, but it seemed to get more credence than you’d suspect.

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      The idea was that Biden was rigging the game and then Kelce would propose to Swift after winning, who would funnel the insane amount of media hype into a Biden endorsement. Kelce wins the Super Bowl, Swift gets attention and a happy boyfriend, and Biden gets a big endorsement.

      They probably don’t know that they’ve been dating for less than a year.

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      @AFKBRBChocolate Rigging or no rigging, if she did endorse or support Biden or whatever, there are enough dumbasses out there that might see a KC win as some kind of Biden endorsement from on high.

      I put that down to projection as usual on the part of the GOPs conspiracy theory wing, though.

      @DrPop