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Neil Kellen's avatar

In a month or two, he and Swift will "breakup. (ie end their co-marketing agreement)

That woman SURE knows marketing!

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Anthony's avatar

I was thinking this the other day. The relationship is a ploy to get more women to watch the Superb Owl who normally wouldn't just to get the dish on the relationship in real time.

Now that it's over, the relationship has outlived its usefulness.

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HoneyPot4Freedom's avatar

Her being at the Super Bowl cemented my NOT watching it. I cannot stand the "new" Taylor Swift, or their fauxlationship. 🤮

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Fred's avatar

Me neither. Wanted to see Reba, but then heard about the Blk “anthem” - click… (would have been secretly rooting for SF - gasp - how low have I sunk?).

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SusanMc's avatar

Didn’t watch but haven’t in years. The silly drama of these 2 shallow people would have kept me away if I had been a fan of Super Bowl. There are multiple reasons I don’t ever watch…. Or care. Halftime displays. Ridiculously expensive ads.

I was pulling for San Francisco from afar.

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

The commercials made me feel like I was watching TikTok! Geared towards the younger women .

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Freebird's avatar

They made me wonder what kind of alternate universe those people live in. I just don’t see freaks on every street corner around here. However, (thank God) I live in a red state and town.

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

I saw some in upstate New York, around Syracuse area. Not so much in Florida, near ft Myers. (& I haven’t explored Florida much yet, moved here just before lockdown. )

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HotTub Marmalade's avatar

Welcome to Florida. Just leave your politics back in upstate New York!

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

Their politics weren’t mine. Happened quickly, moving. I’d been praying for a decade to be nearer to my elderly mom , once I realized my only sibling wasn’t doing right by her. I’m 8 miles away now and hands on helping when needed.

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HotTub Marmalade's avatar

Awesome. Then welcome to Florida. I lived in Taxachusetts during my coming-of-age years but left when I graduated from college. Couldn't stand the taxes, the snow, the cold, or in general, the overcast winter days... not much sun - it was too depressing. Florida's a bit rough in the summer, what with the heat and humidity, but everything's air conditioned, so that helps a bunch. :) Of course, we also have to deal with hurricanes. :(

Incidently, my folks were from Jamestown and Watertown, and I was born in Rochester, so I remember a lot about upstate NY and western NY from my childhood memories!

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

Best friend ( online) is a Boston native, fled to New Mexico.

My husband thinks I was born in the wrong state and eased in to Florida weather fast. Thankful no damage during Ion, my first hurricane experience.

We’re active in the vfw and I love my Alva garden club.( They’re understanding if I’m having a bad autoimmune day. )

My integrative medicine doctor in ft Myers worked with me for a few years online, or I’d never have been strong enough to even move & get married.( Years of gaslighting and neglect by insurance dictated doctors and on disability in my prime. )Anyway, incredibly grateful for the life God blessed me with here.

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

& speaking of politics, very sad my sibling is buying his way out of an arrest in October. I’d been hoping he’d be held accountable. Nope. His love of money makes him an asset. Hughson & benson insurance company in Cooperstown. Makes me sick. He had drugs, guns, but most importantly, was allegedly holding a woman hostage in his house . & he’s part of the corruption! So sad. My family is so proud of his vice president status & his few million dollars. & they’re complicit in trying to cover it up.

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HotTub Marmalade's avatar

Wow. Just wow. Maybe your family thinks that by helping to cover it up, they might get a piece of the action ($$). Pretty disgusting, if that's the case.

And he's still employed by that insurance company? Double wow.

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Sad, really. Reads like you live in integrity. Not easy re family. Sibling issues here not criminal but def abusive. Traumatic. Chronic. Awful. But interesting from a "higher" point of view/perspective. SO much to learn...

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God Bless America's avatar

Bless you Rosalind… You will never regret taking care of your mama. 💖🙏🏽💖

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

Agreed. & been a blessing helping her boyfriend Jimmy, he quietly admitted the jab was causing him problems. We help him when she’s up north doing her snowbird thing.

She calls her neurological injuries “ long covid “. They just adopted a kitten, Hank. I’m going to pop in on them later.

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Freebird's avatar

We’re in Redneck country (Texas) so weirdos are rare unless you go to the big cities.

I’ll be visiting my sister in Ft Myers the first week of March. Can’t wait! I love visiting Florida!

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

Have a wonderful visit!

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Donna in MO's avatar

Yes, the NFL for years has tried to attract the younger demographic who is more attuned to soccer than football. At the time I read the article around the whole take a knee/SJW response, the 'average' NFL fan was a white male in his 50's. So the NFL was destroying its base in the hopes of attracting younger viewers. A local news story said that after the first TayTay attendance at a Chiefs game, that a top search on Google was "what is a tight end"? LOL My son works as an usher for the Chiefs, and the second game she attended, he was assigned to the section below her suite. Said half the people in his section came with binoculars. To watch the game up close? No, to turn around and get a close up into the luxury suite with the hopes of getting a glance at TS. He was disgusted by all this, so glad there are still a few young people with their heads screwed on right.

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rjt's avatar

Your first three sentences describe the "Bud Light" technique.

As the invasion of young fighting age males continues I think you will be correct that soccer takes over.

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RunningLogic's avatar

An outdoor historical “living museum” I’m my state did an ad about the town residents watching the Superb Owl 😆 It was cute and hilarious 😁

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CeeMcG's avatar

I’d watch that! Do you have a link for it?

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Donna in MO's avatar

Love it!! We have a similar attraction here, Missouri Town 1865, but it's run by the County, so no fun creative videos. My kids used to love going there, though, they hold lots of events, like sheep shearing, cooking demonstrations and the like. My daughter was a huge Little House on the Prairie fan so this stuff was right up her alley.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I can’t remember if we went to Missouri Town when we lived there though the name sounds familiar? I don’t think we did but I can’t think why.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Well it's not very well publicized. We knew about it as we live ~10 minutes from there and they advertised special events in our local suburb's newspaper. Both kids also went on field trips there. Do they even do field trips any more?!

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RunningLogic's avatar

My kids used to at their school here and I am pretty sure the local public school does. I wonder if maybe Missouri Town wasn’t as developed when we lived there? Or maybe we just never found the time to go?

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Donna in MO's avatar

Well we were just there for a Walktober event (go out weekends in October and walk different featured parks) last fall, and an interpreter was talking about which of the buildings were original, and which had been moved to the site from other places but I don't remember if he said what years. My kids were born in 93 and 95 and we went a lot when they were little, so it's not that new.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yeah I do seem to remember hearing about it because the name sounds familiar but I guess we just never took the time to go. Probably because my husband was working all the time 🤪😛

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CeeMcG's avatar

That was so cute!

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RunningLogic's avatar

Glad you liked it! 🙂

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CHop's avatar

I wouldn't say ploy as much as marketing strategy. Only 25% of Gen Z watched football and 40% of Milleneals while 50-60% of Gen X and older watch it. If they want to survive, they need to get younger folks interested. Swift brings in the girls and betting apps to bring in the boys although the former seemed to be more successful.

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Anthony's avatar

Ploy, marketing strategy. Same same, imo.

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Fred's avatar

I did hear that he pursued her mercilessly, so doubt relationship was pre orchestrated, but I wouldn’t take any bets on the longevity.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Speaking of bets. My mom and I were out to lunch on Friday and the restaurant had a big screen tuned into a sports betting show. Sound was off but the headline to the graphic was showing odds on Swift/Kelce 'Prop bets'. Our waitress showed up at the time and I asked her, WTH is a prop bet? She was like, oh, you can bet on when Travis Kelce proposes to Taylor Swift. Truly bizzaro world times we are living in.

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liz's avatar

so did it happen? Im so surprised they didnt endorse biden but maybe their handlers are re thinking that.

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Donna in MO's avatar

No idea. There is a Super Bowl parade on Wed. Schools are even closed for it. Yes, really. So suppose there is another opportunity for a 'made for TV moment'

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Fred's avatar

🤯 How in he— did I know that? 🤯

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LS Woodruff's avatar

That ploy will never work on this woman, lol. :)

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Sam's avatar

My uncle has long derided sports and he wouldn’t be caught dead watching it….but lately he’s been on Facebook talking up Taylor and Kelce…just nauseating seeing him being manipulated into falling for the newest fad.

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Chiadrum's avatar

There was a table full of young girls watching the game at the bar yesterday. They were actually paying attention too.

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Irunthis1's avatar

Anyone else catch her weirdo friend flashing satan signs with the upside down cross? I saw it from the feed at Citizen Free Press. Watched it and thought what the hell was taytay doing while THAT evil shit was going down. Rewatched. She was (poorly) chugging a (presumed) adult beverage. Very classy. 😂

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Samwise's avatar

If it’s worth 20 big ones to Pfizer to have him be their drug pusher, how much were they paying Swift and her paramour for this concocted dating storyline. And were they paying the NFL for the airtime, or was the NFL willing to write it off for the extra exposure to a new audience? At least two young women at my workplace who previously had no interest in football were sporting KC jerseys yesterday, solely because of the Swiftie connection.

Have seen several comments saying that they only show Swift for a few times a game, maybe 30 seconds total. Okay, well look up how much that airtime costs during an NFL game. (Close to a million edit: 1 million for a regular season game, 7 million for a Super Bowl 30 second ad…how much camera time did Swift and Kelce get last night? Somebody calculate it)

The NFL at this point is more a vehicle for propaganda pushing than anything else.

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Verve's avatar

You know, drug pusher is a perfect moniker for him. he attended my rival high school, Cleveland Heights High, where we would affectionately scream "Heights Bites" at the football games. Listen to him speak, he sounds like a gang member who just got paroled.

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Neil Kellen's avatar

It's a pretty smart agreement. In addition to bringing young women to the NFL, it brings young men to Swift's music.

I think this has lasted longer than the Chesney-Zellweger duet from a while back.

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Susan Banks's avatar

I think it’s coming to an end very soon.

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Sunnydaze's avatar

Doubtful she knows anything about marketing. She’s a tool. She’s being used and propped up and glorified. She sold herself to the satanic cabal years ago and now they are calling in their marker. They pull her strings, not her. This kelce thing is a ploy to attain whatever agenda they’re working on. The most obvious is to prop up nfl after their ratings destruction with the kneeling and disrespect of our flag. They are licking their wounds and needed some big names and publicity to prop them up. It’s all about the money and agenda. And it is sponsored via ffizer. Ffizer owns everything. Tv. Media. Celebrities. Swift is being used, but her choices made that possible. The sooner the braindead sheep wake up the sooner we get to stop hearing her filthy name ever again. And her boy toy too. He was nobody. Then all of a sudden everybody knew who he was. No accident. It was all planned. And the sheep fall for it Every. Single. Time. It’s so sad. 😞

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Ellen's avatar

Whatever we might wish to believe, she is actually quite intelligent - though maybe not in the domains we might like. She completely calls the shots on everything to do with her image, marketing, producing, etc.

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liz's avatar

no one at that level calls the shots. they all made the deal w the satanists. but I do agree she's intelligent. smart enough to do what they say.

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Susan Banks's avatar

Gosh so true!!

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JSR's avatar

Her breakup song can be “the last jab” hahaha

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Neil Kellen's avatar

ooohhh... catchy title!

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Patricia Woodard's avatar

I think she has a sad life. Lots of money and talent, remade body, but no true love.

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