When Taylor Swift and Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce’s romance became public, Kansas City suddenly found itself at the center of the pop culture universe. Reeves Wiedeman reports from Arrowhead Stadium to the bars and shops where rumors are flying.
photo before you did. I was sitting in the stands at Arrowhead Stadium watching my hometown Kansas City Chiefs play the Chicago Bears — the first time that both, on whom we had different but equally strong crushes, play football in person.
A local story was now global, if it had ever been ours to begin with. By the time Swift showed up to a second game in Kansas City earlier this month, the gossip had overrun an unsuspecting city. Swifties were trying to map out where to spot her. Small businesses were figuring out how to capitalize on the mania. And pretty much everyone else in town, whether they cared about the relationship or not, was trying to figure out what it meant to play third wheel to the biggest love story of the year.
As texts about Kelce and Swift’s arrival flew around campus, Brian Donovan, a sociology professor at KU, was walking into a seminar room to teach a 13-part course he started offering this semester: the Sociology of Taylor Swift. Donovan told me that for his students who were both Chiefs fans and Swifties, the reported coupling marked “the collision of their two most intense fandoms, and that’s thrilling.
In reality, the saga would likely play out similarly if Swift was linked to a Cincinnati Bengal or an Indianapolis Colt. But was there anything specific to the location of this romance? I reached out to author, whose most recent novel centers on a Kansas City native stumbling into a relationship with one of the biggest musicians in the world. Sittenfeld has lived in several midwestern cities and has spent time in Kansas City, where she has family.
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