Taylor Swift fans hoping for a sneak peek of her new album, “Midnights”, hours before its official release can tune into the third quarter of Thursday Night Football Oct. 20 for a special teaser trailer.
Swifties were tipped off on last week’s TNF broadcast that there would be an exclusive premiere set for tonight’s Saints-Cardinals game, but Swift confirmed it this week with an Instagram post showing the premiere on her schedule and a tweet she sent Thursday morning.
Arguably the most anticipated release of Swift’s career, fans have been busy gathering “Midnights” breadcrumbs for weeks — including many from Taylor herself — about the album’s track list, cover art, and, perhaps most importantly, just who’s going to regret ever crossing her after they find themselves in an expertly crafted metaphor or bridge that’s so good it’s re-released as a short film a decade later.
Though most Swifties probably weren’t searching for “Midnights” news in a football broadcast on Prime Video, it didn’t take long for fans to find out about Charissa Thompson’s cryptic-adjacent announcement on last week’s broadcast:
@kaateperkins thankful my boyfriend watches football or I wouldn’t have caught this #fyp #taylorswift #nfl #thursdaynightfootball #midnights #swifttok #swifties ♬ original sound – Kate Perkins
“…it might be time to break out the cardigans and red scarf. For the Bears, they need to calm down and get things turned around so the clock doesn’t strike midnight on their season. And if that sounds like I’m intentionally making more than my fair share of references to arguably the most famous musical artist in the world right now, well, you know what? You know it all too well, and you might just want to check out Thursday Night Football on Prime Video next week as the Saints travel to Arizona for an exclusive premiere of something very, very special.”
It’s safe to say Amazon’s new and less-than-spectacular broadcast is set to get its highest ratings of the season, all thanks to Tay.
Taylor Swift AND Thursday Night Football? I will simply pass away. https://t.co/ez7towWVoc
— Jen Parravani Davis (@byjendavis) October 14, 2022
thursday night football has been so incredibly bad that they had to get taylor swift to drop a music video next week so that they can get their views back up
— Sophia Grace (@right_soph) October 14, 2022
So what I’m discovering is the highlight of the Thursday Night Football game was the Taylor Swift announcement at halftime I NEED TO KNOW MORE
— Katy Winge (@katywinge) October 14, 2022
The teaser trailer will air during the third quarter of Thursday Night Football streaming on Prime Video.
