With the Super Bowl fast approaching, people are starting to place bets on the score, the winner… and apparently even what Taylor Swift will be getting up to.
This time last year, a sentence like ‘Super Bowl fans will be using the game as a chance to make money off Taylor Swift and Joe Biden’ would have sounded like something straight from a game of Mad Libs.
Fast forward to 2024, and while still baffling, it does actually line up.
Swift is currently in Tokyo kicking off the next leg of her epic Eras Tour, but in just a few days her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, will be attempting to lead his Kansas City Chiefs to victory in Las Vegas.
It’s not yet clear whether Swift will make it back for the game, but gambling websites are giving customers the chance to make all sorts of predictions about what will happen if she does.
As well as taking bets on whether Swift will be in Vegas to support Kelce, websites are asking customers to bet on how many times the singer will be shown on camera during the game, and even what shade of lipstick she would be wearing.
Surely it would be Chiefs-red?
Whatever color she goes for, it might end up on Kelce’s face if another of the bets comes true – whether or not the tight end will propose after the game.
Customers can take things a step further by betting on whether Kelce and Swift will use the game to announce that they’re having a baby together.
Websites have even speculated that Swift will endorse the reelection of Joe Biden at the Super Bowl, thanks to a theory circulating through some Republican camps.
This has baffled people online, with many responding to news of the bets on X.
“Well that’s weird,” one post read, while another response said: “There’s still time to delete this.”
Speaking to Reuters, Tim Williams, director of PR at BetUS, said: “The volume of bets on Taylor Swift props might – for at least this year – give the halftime show a literal run for its money in terms of betting volume.”
Though some of the bets about Swift are pretty far-reaching, she isn’t the only non-football-playing person Super Bowl fans could make money off on Sunday.
Some websites are also offering the chance to bet on whether Donald Trump or Biden will be in attendance at the game, or whether Usher will mention Biden during his halftime show performance.
With so many different outcomes possible, it will be interesting to see where the money goes!
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