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Taylor Swift attends AFC championship game at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore
Pop star Taylor Swift swept into M&T Bank Stadium on a soggy Sunday, wearing a new, curly hairstyle and a black coat, according to multiple social media reports and photographs posted Sunday afternoon.
Swift arrived to watch the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Ravens in the AFC championship game. Her boyfriend, Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce, landed in Baltimore, along with his teammates and coaches, on Saturday.
Kelce scored the first touchdown for the Chiefs during the first quarter of the game as TV cameras cut to a cheering Swift in the stands.
Last week, Kelce said he was focused on the game and that his relationship was a separate compartment.
“The only thing we’ve talked about is as long as we’re happy, we can’t listen to anything that’s outside noise,” Kelce told reporters in Kansas City about his relationship, according to CNN.com. “That’s all that matters.”
Swift has faced a lot of outside noise over the past week, much of it related to her privacy and safety.
On X, the website formerly known as Twitter, fake and explicit AI-generated images of the singer were distributed widely before being shut down. Also, a suspect was jailed after repeatedly showing up at her home in New York City.
Swift’s fans seem eager to welcome her and also to root for the Ravens.
Swift, 34, has not performed in the Baltimore area since she was a 19-year-old country singer stopping at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia on her 2009 Fearless tour. Although she has made stops in Washington and Prince George’s County since then, Swift’s closest stop to Charm City during last year’s record-breaking Eras tour was Philadelphia.
Swift is far from the only celebrity showing up in Baltimore for Saturday’s championship game – T-Pain will be playing the halftime show, setting the stage for a potential reunion. Decorated Olympian Michael Phelps, a Baltimore native, will deliver the game ball, and Ravens legends Ray Lewis and Ed Reed are also planned to be a part of Sunday’s festivities.