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Taylor Swift fans are convinced she’s playing the Super Bowl Halftime Show and they might be right

Is Taylor Swift going to play the Super Bowl Halftime Show? Lots of fans think so.

WAKE UP, AMERICA — AND YES, I KNOW THAT’S AN AGGRESSIVE WAY TO SAY HELLO, BUT THEM’S THE BREAKS BECAUSE WE. HAVE. TO. TALK.

*deep breath*

Twitter lit up early Friday morning when the NFL announced some pretty significant Super Bowl news at the stroke of midnight: They’ve signed a multi-year halftime show sponsorship deal with Apple Music months after ending their deal with Pepsi. (By now you’re asking, “Is THIS why you’re screaming at me right now? Because Apple’s going to be taking over yet another thing? Get lost, CORPORATE SHILL.”)

STAY WITH ME, THANKS.

The announcement’s significance goes way, way beyond the news itself — or at least, we’re pretty sure it might but have no actual confirmation and are making that very clear early on. Because the thing is MANY believe this was a clever way to let the world know what’s really going on here: Taylor Swift might be playing the SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW.

First, the evidence:

The NFL dropped a major press release at midnight. 

Any Taylor Swift fan worth their weight in cozy fall sweaters knows midnight is when this girl goes to WORK. She dropped two surprise albums at midnight during the pandemic, the word “midnight” appears approximately 2,000 times in her extensive song catalogue, AND she’s releasing a brand-new album Oct. 21 titled — you guessed it — Midnights. 

Any media professional worth their weight in awkwardly worded pitch emails knows dropping big news in the middle of the night would be a weird move for most organizations considering your target audience — the press — is probably asleep (unless you’re me, but I waited six hours to write this because work-life boundaries!)

But midnight is the golden hour for Taylor Swift fans. That’s when we come alive, like vampires if vampires could sustain their existence with relationship trauma, profound emotional growth and eternal spite toward Jake Gyllenhaal.

Taylor’s never performed during a Super Bowl Halftime Show due to her contract with Coke barring her from even LOOKING at a Pepsi. 

OK, that’s an exaggeration …probably… but Swifties have spent years wishing Taylor could have the opportunity to play the halftime show and it was unlikely to happen as long as Pepsi was the sponsor.

BUT THEN.

Taylor’s been teasing the track titles of Midnights since the announcement and at the same time the Apple Music news dropped, she announced Track 8: “Vigilante Sh*t”.

OK, I’m admittedly not as skilled at Taylor Swift clue-deciphering as many of her fans, so I can’t actually say this hints at anything resembling confirmation. HOWEVER, it’s pretty smart to drop Taylor Swift speculation at a time when her massive fan base is Very Online waiting for another clue about the new album. It’s also just a great name for a song. (But we’ll need the clean version for the Super Bowl, Tay.)

You might think some of this is a reach, and who knows?! It could be! But I’m not the only one connecting the dots here, and therefore you can’t get mad at me if this theory turns out to be wrong.

Watch: Georgia fan drinks 1980 national championship Coca-Cola

A Georgia fan actually drank his 1980 Coca-Cola. He gave us an update on how it tasted and how he’s doing.

The 1980 Georgia Bulldogs national championship Coca-Cola bottle — we all have one or know someone who has the classic bottle.

We’ve joked over the years. “When Georgia finally wins it all again, I’m cracking this bad boy open.”

Well, the Bulldogs finally won it all Monday night when they beat Alabama 33-18 to win the national championship. We started wondering who would be our laboratory rat and be the first to drink their 41 year-old bottle of Coke.

That man would appear to be 57 year-old Wesley Mullins of Savannah, Georgia (video below).

“I had three bottles so I figured I could drink one!,” Mullins said.

There are two big questions every Georgia fans wants to know: How did it taste, and how is Mullins feeling?

“It tasted ok, just flat as you know what,” he said.

And my favorite comment from Mullins was in response to his current health status one day after drinking the bottle. He’s not feeling great, but he credits that to the bourbon rather than the Coke.

“I feel like crap…I think that was from the bourbon not the 1980 Coke.”

I commented on Mullins’ bravery, but a humble hero, Mullins simply replied:

“Bourbon will make you do that. Plus over 40 years of waiting.”

Wesley Mullins, ladies and gentlemen. A Damn Good Dawg.