Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (87) embraces Taylor Swift after the NFL Super Bowl 58 football game against the San Francisco 49ers, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024, in Las Vegas. The Chiefs won 25-22. (AP Photo/John Locher)AP
Dear Travis,
How’s it going, buddy? Great job in the “Big Game” last month.
Well, screaming at your boss at work may not have been the best look for your growing national celebrity image, but hey, you lived the dream of millions of regular working folks on national and international television and won the game!
Kudos, brother!
We’re also appreciative of you and your brother Jason stopping in and cheering at the Cavs game for Kelce brothers bobblehead night. Speaking of which, congrats to Jason on his Hall of Fame career. Cleveland and all Northeast Ohio fans look forward to celebrating both of your eventual enshrinements in Canton. Plus, it’s a short drive for many of your old friends and family – how convenient!
Now, on to the primary purpose of my missive.
Can you maybe ask your (extremely) Significant Other, Taylor Swift to grace one of our local sportsball stadiums with her considerable presence? I know, it’s not cool for us to collectively ask for a favor from someone few of us have ever met much less actually know. But Travis, you just may be our best shot.
To grease the proverbial skids, let us remind you that Ms. Swift skipped us on the Midwest swing of her Eras tour, and as you surely know, the Greater Cleveland area tends to take any sort of perceived snub rather personally. We used to be the home of Rock and Roll!
We can even try to help with scheduling. Currently, there’s a break following her final date in the United Kingdom on Tuesday, Aug. 20, and the tour doesn’t start up again until November in nearby Toronto, which is only a five-hour drive and an international border away from one of our two quality stadiums.
Sure, this is Cleveland and we aren’t weather wimps, so neither of our stadiums have roofs like Toronto and Detroit. But that late August to sometime in the mid-September region on the calendar between late baseball season at Progressive Field and pre-season football at Cleveland Browns Stadium seems doable even with the insane logistics of such a massive tour and its 90 semi-trucks worth of staging.
Besides, Travis, you’ll be standing on the sideline during pre-season games anyway and the season opens Thursday, Sept. 5, so you may even be able to snuggle together on your home turf before or shortly after your Thursday-night game.
We want that opportunity for you, Travis.
Taylor’s 11th studio album “Tortured Poets Society,” will be out in late April and surely will top all the respective charts, and I can tell you from personal experience that the Swifties in Northeast Ohio are unmatched in their zeal for and loyalty to your beloved. Also, beyond her brief appearance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Carole King in 2021, it’s been six long years and five albums worth of songs since we’ve had the chance to sing along with her to her many hits in a live setting.
And, of course, her presence would generate millions of dollars in local revenue because she is a traveling micro-economy unto herself as Swifties from surrounding states – and really any state in the union – will happily pack our local hotels, motels and restaurants for a couple of days.
Hey, while she’s here, the Rock Hall would surely play host so she can come to reminisce over some of the artifacts she’s donated over the years and check out the Revolutionary Women in Rock: Left of Center exhibit, which features artifacts from some of her influences and friends including Melissa Etheridge and her tour buddies in Haim.
So what do you say, Travis?
Can you do your old stomping grounds a giant solid and beseech your partner to consider us? We know, our request may not have the gravitas of a Canadian prime minister. But I’ll bet that dude doesn’t know an authentic pierogi from a fried won ton, either.
Thanks,
Northeast Ohio
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