Taylor Swift Will Time Travel to Make Super Bowl

Taylor Swift is facing a journey that will see her traveling through time if she is to be on hand to support her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, as his team competes in the Super Bowl LVIII on February 11.

The pop star was seen kissing Chiefs' tight end Kelce in celebration of his team's 17-10 victory over the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. The results of the AFC Championship game, which was played at Maryland's M&T Bank Stadium, sees the Chiefs advancing to the Super Bowl for the fourth time in five years.

With Swift having been a faithful fixture at Kelce's games since the pair went public with their relationship in September, fans have questioned whether she will make it to the Super Bowl to watch the Chiefs face off against the San Francisco 49ers.

That there would be any questions regarding Swift's attendance all boils down to the fact that she is set to resume her highly lucrative Eras Tour just days before the Super Bowl takes place. And she'll be more than 5,000 miles away in Japan.

Swift will perform in Tokyo February 7-10. Following the final show, Swift would need to jump on a U.S.-bound flight soon afterward to make the approximate 11.5-hour flight that would get her to the Nevada gambling haven with several hours to spare.

Helping Swift achieve this feat is the fact that Tokyo is 17 hours ahead of Las Vegas. Also, she will be crossing the International Date Line, which will essentially give her an extra day. The date line is a boundary in the Pacific Ocean where each calendar day starts. Also known as the "Line of Demarcation," those traveling west essentially lose a day. Swift, who will be traveling east, will gain a day.

Sports analyst Ian Rapoport further broke down what this will mean for Swift's busy schedule, as he also reported that "sources say" she will be at the game. Newsweek has contacted a representative of Swift via email for comment.

"Now she does have a concert on Saturday, February 10th at 6pm in Tokyo, how in the world could she get to the game? Let me introduce you to something called the International Date Line," he said.

"Tokyo is 17 hours ahead," he went on. "That means this concert starts at 1 a.m. Vegas time the same day. Let's say it's a five-hour concert, about 11 p.m. local, which is 6 a.m., still Saturday, in Las Vegas. Figure a 12-hour flight, maybe she leaves about an hour later."

"Taylor Swift could still get to the Super Bowl [at] about 7 or 8pm Saturday night, just in time to party," Rapoport added.

In a post shared on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday, sports business analyst Darren Rovell explained: "Taylor Swift performs in Japan the night before the Super Bowl. It will end around 10pm Tokyo time (5 am Las Vegas time).

"The flight from Tokyo to Vegas takes 12 hours, meaning Swift can arrive at 5pm local on the day before the Super Bowl, 25 hours, 35 mins before kickoff."

Writer and comedian Rohita Kadambi also took to X to explain how Swift would essentially be landing on the same day she'd leave Tokyo. To illustrate the point, she leaned on a clip from a classic TV show.

"Can Taylor Swift make the Super Bowl from her Tokyo concert? A West Wing episode from 2001 already answered this," she captioned the video, which showed a group of confused White House staffers discussing the time gained during flights between Japan and the U.S.

As of press time, the clip, which features the likes of Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford and Rob Lowe, has been viewed more than 570,000 times.

Should Swift take on the detour, she will need to depart U.S. soil soon afterward, as she is scheduled to kick off the Australian leg of her tour on February 16 in Melbourne, before moving on to Sydney. She will then head to Singapore.

The international leg of the record-breaking tour will also see Swift make stops in several countries including France, Sweden, the U.K., Portugal, Spain and Italy, before concluding north of the border in Vancouver, British Columbia on December 8.

Swift and Travis Kelce became one of the hottest new celebrity couples after going public with their romance in September. At the time, Swift captured headlines when she attended a Chiefs game alongside her partner's mother, Donna Kelce.

Swift has since become a fixture at Chiefs games, with NFL broadcasts often focusing on her presence—much to the exasperation of some football fans.

"I'm just there to support Travis," Swift recently told Time. "I have no awareness of if I'm being shown too much and p****** off a few dads, Brads, and Chads."

Addressing the cameras often panning her way, Swift said: "I don't know how they know what suite I'm in. There's a camera, like, a half-mile away, and you don't know where it is, and you have no idea when [the] camera is putting you in the broadcast, so I don't know if I'm being shown 17 times or once."

"Football is awesome, it turns out," Swift added ("playfully," according to Sam Lansky, the author of the story). "I've been missing out my whole life."