Minneapolis prepares for the potential arrival of Taylor Swift as the city is unaware if the pop star will show up to this afternoon’s Chiefs-Vikings game amid budding Travis Kelce romance
- It’s unclear if Taylor Swift will make a third-straight appearance at a Chiefs game
- Either way, fans in Minnesota are getting ready for the potential Swift sighting
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Minnesota football fanatics are bracing for their beloved Vikings to square off against the visiting Kansas City Chiefs – with many excitedly waiting to hear if Taylor Swift will show up for the third straight game to support new beau Travis Kelce.
The star stole the show in Kelce’s latest outings, building fervent speculation over whether she will make the trip to the Midwest on Sunday evening.
Swift’s camp has offered little indication over whether she will attend, a fact that didn’t stop her legion of fans from shelling out for the big game.
The Anderson family, who were waiting outside the team hotel hoping to catch an early glimpse of Kelce and Mahomes, were in Arrowhead Stadium when Taylor Swift showed up two weeks ago.
‘There was a huge buzz’ said Dan Anderson, 40.
Taylor Swift has attended back-to-back games of her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, this season
This week, the Chiefs go to Minneapolis – where Vikings fans wait to see if Swift will show up
Some fans of the Chiefs, including the Anderson family, stood outside KC’s hotel to see Swift
‘We were right underneath Mahomes’ suite… loads of people weren’t really watching the game they were just watching what she was doing.
‘I think (the relationship) is just fun, I think I don’t follow it as closely as my wife does now.’
‘It’s going to be fun to see where it goes and how many games she goes to,’ added Chelsea Anderson, 40, saying she hopes the romance is ‘true love’.
‘The town is so excited about it, everyone’s talking about it all the time when you bring up the Chiefs.’
She said the moment when Taylor Swift showed up in Arrowhead was ‘really exciting’, adding that as soon as rumor spread she was in the building ‘everyone was trying to find her.’
The family, with sons Eli and Owen, drove up from Leawood, Kansas, as a special 11th birthday present for Owen – who predicted a huge Chiefs win and Kelce touchdown.
Ivy McCay, 9, and sister Olive, 11, traveled to Minnesota with their father for Sunday’s game
Birthday fever also brought Jack McCrilly, 10, to the Minneapolis to cheer on the Chiefs
Birthday fever also brought Jack McCrilly, 10, to the city to cheer on the Chiefs, but admitted he was less interested in Taylor Swift’s potential appearance.
He held a sign celebrating his birthday in Chiefs-style and said he was ‘super excited’ to see the team – just moments before Kelce stepped out of the team hotel to raucous cheers.
Before the tense football mania gets underway, a family atmosphere built all morning in the sun.
‘I’m excited to see if Taylor Swift is going to be here,’ said Ivy McCay, 9, admitting she was also looking forward to her second NFL game.
She said that she thought Kelce and Swift’s public romance is ‘really cool’, but felt – like many Minnesotans – her appearances might not be for everyone.
‘The NFL is getting mad because they think it’s all for attention…
‘Kelce is in like 100 ads, he doesn’t need the attention,’ she added, which her sister Olive, 11, agreed with as Taylor is ‘already a household name.’
Their dad Brandon added: ‘I don’t understand the hate, Travis is just having a good time.’
While some locals have reacted with frustration at Swift’s emergence as a footballing figurehead in recent weeks, Minnesota businesses were more than happy the circus came to town.
At CakeWalk, a bakery in Northfield around 45 minutes from the stadium, novelty football-shirt cookies flew off the shelf so quickly the business ran out in only a day.
Swift’s whirlwind romance with Kelce has been taking the world of sports by storm
Even in Minnesota, Swifties can find baked goods celebrating the visiting team’s tight end
‘I’m a huge Vikings fan but I had to do this for the Swifties,’ owner Teara Myers told DailyMail.com.
She said a social media post showing off the parody cookies quickly garnered tens of thousands of clicks, a surge in business she puts down to the mania over Swift’s latest romance.
‘I was shocked!’ she said, adding that she ‘didn’t realize how these would go over’ until customers took them ‘all in good fun.’
‘I hope we don’t have to bake a breakup cookie,’ she added.
The bitter football rivalry was also put aside at Hanisch, a coffee shop that joked about a new nickname seemingly created for the Kansas City team after Kelce’s fling – with baked goods for fans dubbing them the ‘KC Swifties.’
‘Hanisch Bakery and Coffee Shop is welcoming all fans of sports to Red Wing this weekend, even the new fans of the recently renamed team Kansas City Swifties,’ manager Bill Hanisch told DailyMail.com.
‘It is great to see Taylor really help a struggling fan base and shine a bright light on the community of Kansas City! Go Taylor’s Boyfriend!’
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