6 days Ago By Dan Treacy
Taylor Swift is expected to have plenty of time to go to Chiefs playoff games with the Eras Tour wrapping up in December, but a convenient scheduling quirk should allow her to be in the building for Kansas City's blockbuster game against the Bills on Sunday. Swift is performing in Toronto on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, placing her in close proximity to Buffalo, where the Chiefs will face what could be their toughest test remaining on their schedule. The Chiefs are undefeated, but they will need all the help they can get from Swift and the rest of the team's family and friends.
Not only will they be playing in a notoriously tough environment in Buffalo, but the Bills also have won each of the past three regular season meetings against Patrick Mahomes and co. Highmark Stadium will be decked out in Bills gear, but Swift should be on hand to give the Chiefs some support on the road. Was it a stroke of luck by the NFL or more than just a coincidence? Here's what the NFL is saying about the speculation.
NFL HQ: Live NFL scores | Updated NFL standings | Full NFL schedule Did NFL put Chiefs vs. Bills near Taylor Swift's Eras Tour on purpose? The NFL claims it did not intentionally schedule Sunday's game between the Chiefs and Bills near Swift's Eras Tour stop in Toronto. The decision was "completely unintentional," CBS Sports reported , citing an NFL source.
NFL vice president of broadcast planning Mike North admitted in May that the league does take some factors into consideration when determining whether a team will be at home or on the road on a given weekend, but Swift's concert was not a factor. "Some of these teams share their stadiums, whether it's with Major League Baseball teams, if not stadiums, at least downtown footprint, municipal services, parking lots," North told CBS Sports. "We've got MLS teams playing in our buildings.
Sometimes you've got a major golf tournament or a NASCAR race in the market." That's all taken into consideration when crafting the schedule, but none of those factors relate to Swift or her whereabouts. Swift has been available to attend plenty of Chiefs games this season, even as the Eras Tour wraps up, and her availability will be even better once the tour concludes in Vancouver on Dec.
8. Even if the game was somewhere else across the U.S.
, it's likely Swift could have found a way to get there on Sunday with her concert ending on Saturday night and the next one not scheduled until Wednesday. The matchup itself was definitively out of the NFL's control. The NFL schedule works on a cycle, so the Bills and Chiefs were guaranteed to face each other in Buffalo this season.
It was just a matter of when, and the answer happened to be when Travis Kelce's world-famous girlfriend was nearby — whether by coincidence or not. MORE: Why Chiefs-Broncos referee spoke to Taylor Swift before game Taylor Swift Eras Tour schedule Swift played her final U.S.
show in Indianapolis on Nov. 3, and Sunday's game will be right in the middle of her second-to-last stop of the entire tour: Toronto. Once her Toronto stop wraps up on Nov.
23, Swift will have some time off before performing the final three Eras Tour shows in Vancouver from Dec. 6-8. Here are the remaining dates on the Eras Tour: Date City Wednesday, Nov.
21 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Friday, Nov. 22 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Saturday, Nov. 23 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Friday, Dec.
6 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Saturday, Dec. 7 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Sunday, Dec. 8 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Is Taylor Swift at Chiefs vs.
Bills? Swift's whereabouts for Sunday's battle of AFC contenders aren't yet known, but her schedule aligns well enough that she is expected to be in attendance at Highmark Stadium. Swift was previously in the building for the Chiefs' divisional round win over the Chiefs in January, and it figures to be another raucous environment as the Bills try to hand Kansas City its first loss of the season..
