A few years after my mom died in 1980, my dad remarried a woman named Barbara. Dad was generally known by his middle name Bernard. At the time, the A-Team television show, with Mr T, was a hit, although I never watched it, even I heard about it. At that point I started calling them the B-Team. Some of my siblings and their spouses became teams--L-Team, J-Team, P-Team. My wife and I became known as the T-Team, which we use in our common email address. While we are under the radar, so to speak a new T-Team is making waves throughout the country.
Last night, before going to bed I suggested to my wife that there is a new T-Team, Tay and Trav. She seemed perplexed for a bit who Tay and Trav are, and I wondered if it would be up to me to explain the current cultural phenomenon that certain people can not get over. It is a sad situation if I am the one who has to explain a cultural trend.
Last week it came out that the nation's newest power couple, that he calls her by a shortened version of her name Tay, and last night, some Green Bay Packer post I see on Facebook had her referring to her male friend in a shortened version of his name-Trav. These nicknames have been referred to as sweet. I think, how original. But the fashionistas who clamor over such stuff, and go gaga, over this new power couple. Of course, I am referring to the new T-Team--Taylor Swift, an award winning singer-musician, and Travis Kelce, a tight end for the World Champion Kansas City Chiefs, and the favorite target of THE BEST QB in the WORLD, Patrick Mahomes. I am not sure how many times they referred to the Chiefs as world champions. Which is kind of odd, because, as far as I know, every team in the NFL is from the United States. But, marketing does such things.
Taylor must be important, or at least to Time magazine, who identified her as their Person of the Year. I just saw that this morning, so I am not sure if it is related to Trav at all or not. Trav has made headlines in his own right, and he and his brother and mother became a phenom of sorts during the Super Bowl last year as Trav's brother Jason plays for the Philadelphia Eagles, who lost to KC in the Super Bowl. The mother, who has made sure to garner more than 15 minutes of fame sucked that all in and now even appears in a vaccine commercial with Travis.
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| A cultural phenomenon even I am aware of Source: Google Images |
For much of this football season one could not get news on a football game without hearing about Taylor and Travis and what games she may attend. I think things got rather dicey when she upstaged Patrick Mahome's wife, but things were apparently patched over as they now share the same luxury box. I suppose the NFL did not wish a fit to occur between the wife of THE BEST QB in the WORLD, and their now world famous tight-end. They shared a luxury box at Green Bay last Sunday night. A former KC Chief player did not like Travis spending part of his bye-week in South America while Taylor was on tour.
Before, the game, I was wondering if the number of times NBC would show Ms Swift would turn into a drinking game. I watched the whole game, perhaps a first for this year, and only saw one instance where they focused on the luxury box containing Taylor and her entourage. Taylor is so important, that she arrived with her entourage an hour before game time, when it was snowing, in two large black SUV's at the loading dock of Lambeau Field. I am not sure what is worse going through the check in line, or being dumped at a loading dock. I don't know if Green Bay put out the red carpet for her or not. Monday morning, the local newscaster played part of the song "Lady in Red" and reported on some fashionista web site who tracks such things, about Taylor Swift arriving at Lambeau Field in a flowing red coat. She appeared to have a black outfit on in her box. Meanwhile, it was reported that there was a fan frenzy over Taylor Swift at Green Bay's Lambeau Field, which you can see in this news report. As an aside, in that news report, when it shows her walking at Lambeau, I swear it is Matt LaFleur walking behind her from left to right. I think he was wondering what the fuss was all about. He just went up a notch in my mind.
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| L: Tay and Brittany Mahomes in Lambeau Luxury box R: Simone Biles on the Field |
As an after thought, the NBC broadcast team then mentioned that Jonathan Owens, a back up safety for GB, is married to Simone Biles. Simone Biles is the most decorated, and perhaps greatest gymnast ever. Which is saying a great deal given how many Soviet Bloc gymnasts were very good. I guess this shows that to the adoring American public musical talent overshadows athletic talent. Simone was on the field at Lambeau to watch her husband play. I suppose if a player careened off the field, she could do vault right over him. I suppose I have heard a Taylor Swift song, but I have to say I probably would not recognize it.
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| Jordan Love's girlfriend and Mother at 2021 Packer game in Kansas City Described by even Chief fans as worst seats in the house. |
Simone on the field, and Taylor in a luxury box. Two years ago Jordan Love had his first start as an NFL QB (his only start until this season) when the Packers played at Kansas City. His mother was present to watch the game, but was placed at the top seat level of the stadium, and I don't mean a luxury box. Quite a contrast to where Brittany Mahomes and Tay watched Patrick and Trav play in Green Bay this past Sunday night.
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| Jordan Love's comment on his mother's seat during the 2023 GB-KC game at Lambeau Field |
While Tay and Trav may become known as the T-Team, I can say we have had that moniker for over 34 years. I heartily welcome this power couple as another T-Team, as long as they don't try to fly under the radar more than my wife and I.
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