Super Bowl Fans Eager for Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift Gear
After igniting the cake, it burns away a Kansas City Chiefs logo to reveal pop superstar Taylor Swift’s image, according to reports.
COON RAPIDS, Minn. — According to reports, an ignitable cake burns away a Kansas City Chiefs logo to reveal pop superstar Taylor Swift’s image underneath. Prayer candles feature the Grammy winner and her star tight end boyfriend Travis Kelce. Sweatshirts are emblazoned with “Kelce’s Best Catch” and “Go Kansas City Swiftie.”
Reports indicate that as the Chiefs prepare to face off against the San Francisco 49ers in their fourth Super Bowl appearance in five years, stores can hardly keep in stock any of the caps, sweatshirts and other odds and ends (some odder than others) commemorating the sports and pop crossover romance.
Highlights of their courting are featured in the merch. On tour in Buenos Aires, for instance, Swift changed a lyric in her song “Karma” from “Karma is the guy on the screen” to “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs.” Now Karma sweatshirts are proliferating, part of the surge of Chiefs merchandise hitting store shelves in Kansas City and far beyond.
According to reports, the “Taylor Bowl” is what Maddie Schmitz, owner of Something Sweet by Maddie Lu in Coon Rapids, is calling this Sunday’s contest in Las Vegas.
Reports indicate that she uses an edible image printer with edible inks to print the Chiefs- and Swift-themed images on two sheets of — you guessed it — edible paper.
According to reports,”A lot of women are ordering these in secret and then bringing them to the Super Bowl party to surprise their husbands because it is a whole Chiefs-themed cake on the outside, but then on the inside, reveals the Taylor Swift love that all of the females seem to have for her,” Schmitz said.
She isn’t the only romance confectioner. Dolce Bakery, in the suburb of Prairie Village, Kansas, has an entire “Swiftie Collection” of heart-shaped cakes it is hawking.
“It’s amazing,” said Katie Mabry van Dieren, owner of Shop Local KC. “I have never shipped so many items from our stores to different states”.
She said she thought the busiest weekend would be when Kansas City hosted the NFL draft in April. But she said Swift’s The Eras Tour concert stop at Arrowhead Stadium over the summer blew that away.
According to reports, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said the city has been lucky to have experienced the economy jolt. “She is welcome,” he said in a pre-playoff statement, “to stay forever.”
According to reports, anything Swift wears is particularly hot. For instance, a ring bearing Kelce’s jersey No. 87 is backordered after it was spotted on Swift’s finger.
According to reports, the ring’s maker, Emily Bordner, from eb & Company, suspects that Donna Kelce bought the ring for her son’s star-studded sweetheart.
According to reports, “It’s been all hands on deck ever since, with Bordner’s husband, mother and all her friends enlisted to help out”
“Bananas,” she said. “It’s been absolutely bananas. I don’t think I’ve ever worked this hard in my entire life, hands down. Absolutely not.”
According to reports, it all started when Swift placed an order last fall. She later was spotted wearing a hat and sweatshirt the Kansas City boutique sent her.
According to reports, “People talk about the Taylor Swift effect, and you hear about it or read about it or whatever, but to like, personally experience it, you know, is another level,” he said, adding that it is “almost becoming like an identity of the store.”
According to reports, Harrington credits the couple’s star power, saying it has elevated everything to a “global level.” Often, he added, customers are on a mission.
According to reports, “everybody has an opinion” on the romance. But, he adds: “I love it for a million reasons.”
WATCH MORE ON KARE 11+
Download the free KARE 11+ app for Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV and other smart TV platforms to watch more from KARE 11 anytime! The KARE 11+ app includes live streams of all of KARE 11’s newscasts. You’ll also find on-demand replays of newscasts; the latest from KARE 11 Investigates, Breaking the News and the Land of 10,000 Stories; exclusive programs like Verify and HeartThreads; and Minnesota sports talk from our partners at Locked On Minnesota.
Watch the latest local news from the Twin Cities and across Minnesota in our YouTube playlist: