From a football perspective, the game on Sunday night between the Kansas City Chiefs and the New York Jets is not must-see TV.
The Chiefs, favored by 8.5 points, are the reigning Super Bowl champions and are led by the N.F.L.’s best player. The Jets are flailing after their 39-year-old would-be savior tore his Achilles’ tendon minutes into the season.
But millions of people are thrumming with anticipation anyway: America’s most breathlessly covered situationship — between Kansas City’s All-Pro tight end, Travis Kelce, and pop music’s biggest star, Taylor Swift — is coming to prime-time television.