An 8-year-old girl drew up a game plan to meet Taylor Swift — and with a future Hall of Fame center leading the way, she scored a priceless, viral moment.
Third-grader Ella Piazza parlayed determination and good luck to gain a brief but memorable audience with Swift — via the shoulders of shirtless Jason Kelce — at this past weekend’s Kansas City Chiefs-Buffalo Bills game.
“Jason went out of the suite … and then (he) came over here and then he picked me up and then I saw Taylor,” a beaming Ella said exclusively on NBC’s “TODAY” show on Tuesday. “It was, like, amazing.”
Ella, a devoted Swiftie from Rochester, arrived at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park on Sunday with a sign she wanted to show her favorite singer.
Then as Ella approached the luxury box where Swift was sitting, she got an unexpected boost from Kelce, brother of the 12-time Grammy winner’s boyfriend, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
The older Kelce, who was free on Sunday after his Philadelphia Eagles were eliminated from the playoffs six nights earlier, spotted Ella, picked her up and made sure she and Swift had their moment.
Ella showed Swift her now-famous homemade sign: “Buffalo Bills + Taylor Swift Best First Game Ever!!”
The moment will live in their memories forever, mother Jessica Piazza said.
“It was amazing,” she said. “She came down, and it was like the happiest I’ve ever seen her. She was like crying, just of happiness. It was so cool.”
Just to get within first down’s distance to Swift took a lot of good luck and stick-to-itiveness by the little girl.
Her family’s tickets were on the other side of the stadium from where Swift and her crew were sitting. But a family friend had seats near Swift’s party and had Ella and her mom drop by halftime for their far-fetched shot at meeting Taylor.
“I was thinking positive, but some of my friends weren’t that positive,” Ella explained, wearing a Swift Eras Tour T-shirt.
Ella had been telling friends she was going to meet…
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