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When Taylor Swift showed up in the VIP box of a Chiefs-Bears game amid rumors that she and Travis Kelce were dating, the Internet exploded. The frenzied reaction from Swifties, NFL fans, and the media reminded me of the spectacle around David Beckham and Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham’s early courtship, as revisited in the new Netflix docuseries Beckham: a sports hero and a pop megastar, coming together to create something even bigger — to give us a show. Now on a break from her juggernaut Eras Tour, Swift is signaling that we’re in a very different era ourselves, one in which being a WAG is officially cool again.

It sounds ridiculous to call Swift a WAG — a British tabloid term for “wives and girlfriends” of famous athletes, usually soccer players — because she’s one of the most famous women in the world. So famous that the adjectives we used to describe most celebrities don’t do her justice. But Swift tends to be seen in public only when she wants to be, and she spent most of the last six years in an extremely private relationship with actor Joe Alwyn. So when she shows up in a red Chiefs jersey to cheer Kelce on and hang out with his mom, it’s clear she’s happy to perform the role.