So the N.F.L.
blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it there was football. Then again, there was also football on Thursday. And on Friday, in Brazil, a game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers.
But, first, Thursday. And the N.F.
L. said that the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Ravens, and Taylor Swift should be there. And it was so.
And there were eighty thousand fans in Arrowhead Stadium, in Kansas City, and fireworks, and singing by Grammy winners, and a Super Bowl banner. There was a flyover by a B-2 stealth bomber, the world’s most expensive plane. There was Andy Reid, and Andy Reid’s mustache.
And there was Harrison Butker, the Chiefs’ kicker, who, during the off-season, had given a commencement address in which he denounced the “diabolical lies” told to women and encouraged them to embrace their “vocation” as homemakers. The N.F.
L. said that Butker’s speech did not represent the league’s views, and the commissioner, Roger Goodell, said that the “diversity of opinions” held by those in the league, as in society, was “something that we treasure.” And there was Travis Kelce, who had spent part of his off-season tagging along with Swift, his girlfriend, on the European swing of her Eras Tour .
At a stop in London, at Wembley Stadium, he’d appeared onstage, as one of the extras in tuxes and top hats. And Kelce had a mustache, too. Not there was the Chiefs’ superfan Xaviar Babudar, known as ChiefsAholic, having b.