These sportscasters want Taylor Swift to perform at Super Bowl. Swifties are worried
You would think that Taylor Swift’s fans would love to see her perform during the next Super Bowl halftime show.
But maybe not.
Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson, on the other hand, want to see it. The Fox sportscasters began campaigning this week on their podcast, “Calm Down With Erin and Charissa.”
“So Taylor, I know that you obviously have other things going on right now,” Thompson said. “But if you get this message, we would love for you to perform at the Super Bowl.”
Remember, Andrews and Thompson were early fans last year of a Swift-Travis Kelce relationship, using their podcast to urge the “Shake It Off” singer to give their “fantastic” friend a chance when he made his interest in her public knowledge.
“Take us up on this. Go on a date with this guy,” Andrews urged then.
Fox Sports will broadcast Super Bowl LIX from New Orleans in February, which could be history-making if the Chiefs make it back — and win — a third consecutive championship.
Andrews and Thompson see the proverbial stars lining up. By Feb. 9, 2025, Swift will have wrapped up her current Eras Tour, which ends Dec. 8 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
She has never performed at a Super Bowl.
“Selfishly, we want her, as you guys all know our affinity for Taylor, but we want it because it’s Fox’s Super Bowl,” Thompson said. “But also on the heels of all the nonsense from last year, the Chads and dads that didn’t want her to be shown on television.”
Swift referred to angry NFL fans who grumbled about TV cameras showing her at Chiefs games last season as “dads, Brads, and Chads.” She made the comment in a lengthy story crowning her as Time magazine’s Person of the Year.
It’s not as though Swift “needs” to do a Super Bowl, Thompson acknowledged.
But, “Michael Jackson didn’t need to do the halftime Super Bowl performance but he did. Whitney Houston didn’t need to sing the national anthem, but she did,” Thompson said.
“I feel like Taylor, if you’re listening, your resume is full of everything. You have done it all. But don’t you want to also say that you have performed at a Super Bowl halftime?
“And if you have it your way and the Kansas City Chiefs have it their way, it’ll be at your boyfriend’s game, where they look to three-peat for the first time ever in the history of the league.
“So it’d be a culmination of things that have never been done before. A three-peat if they win, and you performing at halftime.”
Andrews, referencing a Swift song, added, “I will be doing the Super Bowl with a broken heart if she doesn’t do halftime.”
“Swifties,” Andrews said, “you people have power out there, it’s time to manifest this thing.”
The Swifties for Eternity fan account, with nearly 560,00 Instagram followers, likes the idea.
“Imagine her opening the SB halftime show with audio from people complaining about her being at the games,” it wrote on the podcast’s Instagram page where fans are weighing in.
“The dads, Brads and Chads couldn’t handle it!” one fan wrote.
But other Swifties worry about poking the Brad-and-Chad bear.
“While I’d love to see this, I don’t want it to happen,” wrote one fan. “She gets tons of hate already. Can you imagine all of the boos from the Chads Brads and dads? And if the Chiefs are in the super bowl and they lose? Yeah that’s a nope for me. The amount of hate and bullying this woman gets will double.”
“No! Bad idea, I know, I’m probably the odd man out, but she goes to games as a girlfriend, not a performer,” wrote another fan. “Yes, she increased the revenue for the NFL and The Chiefs, FANTASTIC!
“But selfishly, as Swifties, I/we don’t want her to be received by the Chads and Dads with boohoos. It would break ALL our hearts; she doesn’t deserve that. Swifties saw her at the concert, let us leave it alone.”
Other equally protective fans want nothing but rest for Swift after her mammoth tour.
“We all need to give the woman a break,” one wrote. “She’s been touring for almost 2 years and then the traveling to see Travis. Perhaps football is her chance to get off the stage. The woman is incredible, no doubt. Let her be a fan.”
“Unpopular opinion. I don’t (at this point) want to see a rushed truncated ultra mini concert from her,” another Swiftie wrote. “Nor do I think the pressure of coming off a 2 year tour, with 2 months to prepare such a show would be good for her ...”
One fan, who also doesn’t like the idea, dared to mention that thing that should not be spoken.
“But what about the elephant in the room?” they wrote. “What happens if Swift is announced as the Super Bowl halftime show performer in September and she breaks up with Kelce before the holidays?”
Gasp!
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