Tag: Pop Culture

Taylor Swift showed a range of emotions rooting for Travis Kelce at Saturday’s Chiefs-Texans game

The 14-time Grammy winner had a lovely Saturday afternoon at Arrowhead.

Taylor Swift returned to Arrowhead on Saturday afternoon for Kansas City’s final home game of the season. The 14-time Grammy winner has been dating Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce since last summer, and she has been a regular in the stands since then.

With the Eras Tour completed after 149 shows and nearly two years, Swift has stayed busy in Kansas City between a children’s hospital visit, her surprise wrap party and Chiefs games.

MORE TAYLOR SWIFT: Photos of her and Travis Kelce at her Eras Tour party

The Chiefs led most of the game against CJ Stroud and the visiting Texans, but it was a tightly contested and exciting affair. Swift was thoroughly engaged in the stands, looking serious and smiling with her mother and others in the suite.

Even Swift’s mother, Andrea, got in on the fun as she waved to fans and made the Fearless heart hands to the crowd.

There are no more home games in the regular season for the Chiefs, and just two road games remain.

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Taylor Swift arrived in a fabulous red coat for Chiefs-Texans Saturday game

Swift is back in Kansas City to support boyfriend Travis Kelce.

The NFL is joining the College Football Playoff for some Saturday football action, and pop star Taylor Swift wasn’t going to miss out.

The Kansas City Chiefs are hosting the Houston Texans in Arrowhead Stadium, and the 14-time Grammy winner made her first appearance since her epic tour ended on December 8. The Eras Tour star had been absent for the Chiefs’ recent road games, but made it back to support boyfriend Travis Kelce against the Texans. This is the final home game for the back-to-back Super Bowl winners, with just a Christmas Day game in Pittsburgh and a trip to the Denver Broncos remaining in the regular season.

Swift arrived in a long, stunning red coat with faux fur accents and a black bucket hat. The The Tortured Poets Department singer paired the jacket with a skirt (or dress) and tall black boots.

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Taylor Swift got her own 22 hat from Travis Kelce at her Eras Tour-themed party

This is what pure happiness looks like.

For 149 Eras Tour shows across five continents, Taylor Swift handed out her “22” hat to one lucky fan each night.

The 14-time Grammy winner would sing and dance her way to the end of the stage each performance during the Red era before taking off her hat and gifting it to a star-struck Swiftie. It became one of the most heartwarming parts of her nearly two year tour as the joy on the recipients’ faces was infectious.

MORE TAYLOR AND TRAVIS: Photos from the Eras Tour-themed party

So naturally, it had to be included in the singer’s recent wrap party that may have also been a birthday party. Her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, adorably adorned a gleeful Swift with their version of the “22” hat, and it was perfect.

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Patrick and Brittany Mahomes dressed up as Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce for Eras Tour party

QB1 channeled his favorite tight end for the Eras Tour party.

The Eras Tour came to a close on December 8, putting a bow on nearly two years of touring. Taylor Swift performed a remarkable 149 shows across five continents and became the highest-grossing tour in history with over a billion dollars made.

Such an accomplishment deserves a big celebration, and we got photos from an Eras Tour-themed party that some in attendance said was Travis Kelce’s doing. Friends of the couple were in attendance dressed as her Eras.

Kelce’s Kansas City teammate Patrick Mahomes and his wife Brittany were there, and the duo dressed like the pop star and tight end. Patrick perfectly deployed the top hat and tails look that Kelce executed on stage in London, while Brittany went with a very Fearless dress and “Karma” jacket.

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Who is Bobbi Althoff dating? Not these NFL players.

Hmmm.

There’s some online mystery that has roped in some notable NFL players.

Bobbi Althoff — the influencer and podcaster — was seen kissing someone on her Instagram Story. The face is blurry, so the speculation began, as you’d expect on the interwebs.

So who is that mystery man? Well, we know who it ISN’T, due to a couple of NFL players weighing in.

MORE NFL AND POP CULTURE: Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift had a blast at her Eras Tour themed party

Arizona Cardinals cornerback Sean Murphy-Bunting was thrown into the mix, but he had three words for it on X (formerly Twitter): “That’s not me.”

OK! How about OT Cedric Ogbuehi, who has played for a bunch of NFL teams?

Nope. He said so on in a TikTok comments section, so that’s that.

The mystery continues.

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce photos from the Eras Tour-themed party are the best

Swift celebrated the end of the tour and her birthday in style.

The Eras Tour came to a close on December 8 in Vancouver, British Columbia, ending after 149 shows and nearly two years. Taylor Swift’s mega tour became the highest grossing ever, making over $1 billion across the 21 months.

To celebrate the conclusion of the tour, Swift’s boyfriend — Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce — reportedly threw the The Tortured Poets Department singer an Eras-themed wrap party.

Everyone in attendance wore outfits inspired by the concert, including Kelce in his tuxedo from when he joined Swift on stage in London. Teammates and spouses of Kelce were included on the guest list, including Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany.

It looked like quite the incredible affair.

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Did Taylor Swift attend Travis Kelce’s game for Chiefs-Browns on Sunday afternoon?

Did the 14-time Grammy winner make the trip to Cleveland?

With the Eras Tour officially wrapped, it was a question as to whether or not pop star Taylor Swift would make the trip to Cleveland to see boyfriend Travis Kelce and Kansas City take on the Browns. Swift performed the Eras Tour across five continents and toured for nearly two years straight.

As it turns out, the The Tortured Poets Department singer is reportedly not showing up to support Kelce and Kansas City Sunday afternoon. Swift hasn’t made any of the Chiefs away games this season as security in other venues can be difficult to deal with.

With three games left on the season, the Chiefs are only at home one more time, when they play the Texans on December 21.

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Adam Sandler joined SNL as a surprise guest with Chris Rock

The one-time cast mates reunited.

Longtime SNL cast member Chris Rock — who was on the show from 1990-1993 — returned to the sketch comedy series this weekend as the host. It was his fourth time hosting, and Rock was joined by an iconic cast mate for one of the sketches.

Adam Sandler, who was a cast member on SNL from 1990-1995, surprised the audience in a skit where he played a patient being operated on. Sandler wakes up after a nurse left an AirPod inside him, and starts spurting blood.

It’s a perfectly ridiculous sketch, and Sandler breaks several times as he sprays fake blood on the rest of the cast.

SNL cold open tackled Luigi Mangione with a Nancy Grace skit

The hard hitting journalist was baffled at Mangione’s popularity.

Saturday Night Live tackled current events once again with its cold open, using a Nancy Grace parody to address the arrest of Luigi Mangione. Suspected in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Mangione has been in the news as his mugshot spread across the internet.

Sarah Sherman played the brash news journalist Nancy Grace, and the skit addressed Mangione’s recent popularity for his looks on social media. She also had several “experts” join the program, and they played on the fact that YouTube has loud, interrupting ads with hilarious cut-ins featuring Marcello Hernandez.

Check out the full sketch here:

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September 5 delivers a new perspective on the Munich Olympics hostage crisis

The new film examines the 1972 tragedy from a different lens.

The hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics, also known as the “Munich Massacre,” has been the subject of several movies and documentaries over the years. Steven Spielberg’s Munich from 2005 was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.

Now, we have a new angle on the devastating terrorist attack.

September 5, a movie from director Tim Fehlbaum (The Colony) and starring Peter Sarsgaard (Presumed Innocent), John Magaro (Past Lives) and Ben Chaplin (Family), looks at the perspective of the ABC Sports broadcasting team as the kidnapping of nine Israeli athletes unfolds.

ABC Sports was on site in Munich for the games, set up adjacent to the Olympic Village. What was expected to be a simple day of sport broadcasting turned into a harrowing experience as producer Geoff Mason (Magaro) and executive Roone Arledge (Sarsgaard) had to navigate the morals and speed of making decisions real-time during an international crisis.

The movie is gripping and will have you on the edge of your seat, despite never leaving the control room. Decisions have to be made on the fly, and the repercussions were literally seen worldwide. The setting itself becomes a character, something that was important to Fehlbaum.

“That’s exactly how we approached it,” the director told For The Win in a recent interview. “We wanted that world to be as accurately and authentically [portrayed] as possible. We also thought that in a in a movie that is about the media, everything that comes along with that, with the technology of television back then, it has to be understandable for the audience.”

Sarsgaard and Magaro are phenomenal, and the supporting cast of Chaplin (Marvin Bader), Leonie Benesch (German translator Marianne Gebhardt) and Benjamin Walker (ABC news anchor Peter Jennings) all bring life to the story.

September 5 is out December 13 in an exclusive release, with the expansion release set for January 17, 2025.

Movie: September 5
Release Date: December 13, 2024/January 17, 2025 
Director: Tim Fehlbaum
Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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