Circuses.There might be something in this Taylor Swift / Superbowl / Biden election conspiracy theory. Sarah noticed that this year, the most prominent news website in New Zealand is showing the Superbowl live - and sharing lots of news about celebrities like Swift arriving. Over the weekend they also made out that Swift leaving Japan to go to the Superbowl was news.
This is really weird. Bear in mind that the Superbowl is a domestic USA sports competition, not an international one, NZ has nobody competing in it, so in the past nobody has broadcast it here at all to my knowledge - it's just irrelevant to us. To illustrate how little exposure we've had to this in our lives to date, I don't even know what sport is played there, but I'm guessing baseball since it includes the word "bowl" and Americans don't play cricket. Unless "Superbowl" is just the name of a stadium that looks like a bowl. Obviously if I had any interest in sports I'd have sought out news about it and probably found some even in NZ publications, but it isn't something that has been promoted before.
So why would this foreign domestic sporting event suddenly be global news, and one key focus of that news be Taylor Swift? Weird.
Desperation to find a focus on anything entertaining as opposed to what is really going on.
And the American game of football is played during our fall and early winter. Baseball starts in the spring and runs through the summer.