Many were betting on the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs to make it to Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans for quite a while.
In fact, pop star Taylor Swift, the girlfriend of Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce, has been planning for it since the beginning of the season.
Kansas City scraped and clawed its way to a 32-29 win over the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday – a victory that was set up by a Harrison Butker 35-yard field goal with just 3:33 left in the fourth quarter and a subsequent fourth-down stop on Buffalo’s ensuing drive that ultimately sent the Chiefs to their third straight Super Bowl.
Swift has been in attendance for all but one of the Chiefs’ home games this season, and she plans to be there in person at the Superdome on Feb. 9 to watch them play the Philadelphia Eagles and attempt to become the first team in NFL history to three-peat as Super Bowl champions And now, thanks to a report from the U.S. Sun, fans know who they can expect to see accompany her.
According to the Sun, actress Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, also an actor, will be sitting with Swift in her suite along with friends Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco, Sabrina Carpenter, and Ice Spice.
Lively and Reynolds are both close friends of Swift and Kelce’s, and the two couples even went on a double date together a few months ago.
“Blake and Ryan have been talking with Taylor and Travis about it when they spent days together a couple of months ago,” a source told the Sun. “
And they told them not to book anything for that time of the year and to get ready to go to New Orleans at the beginning of the year. “…
This has been a conversation since the beginning of the season, but now Travis and the Chiefs have reached the Super Bowl, it’s time to get the preparations for the big game started.” Lively and Reynolds sat with suite at last year’s Super Bowl – a 26-22 Chiefs’ overtime win over the San Francisco 49ers at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
There had been speculation about a potential rift between Swift and Lively after she filed a $400 million lawsuit against her “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni, accusing him of sexual harassment, retaliation and orchestrating a media smear campaign.
Baldoni also alleged that Lively used her friendship with Swift to strong-arm him into making edits to a scene in their movie that she wanted but he didn’t.
But it appears Swift is debunking all of the rumors that suggested the two had a falling out.