{"id":187728,"date":"2023-11-28T14:44:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T00:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=187728"},"modified":"2024-01-30T14:15:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T00:15:10","slug":"taylor-swift-tie-to-uh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/28\/taylor-swift-tie-to-uh\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Taylor Swift\u2019s tie to UH<\/abbr>?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Taylor Swift (Photo credit: Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Singer-songwriter and pop culture icon Taylor Swift was born and raised in Pennsylvania before moving to Nashville. So what\u2019s her connection to the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>? “Long Story Short,” it\u2019s football and no, not NFL<\/abbr> Tight End Travis Kelce, currently filling up Tay Tay\u2019s “Blank Space.”<\/p>\n

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Taylor Swift’s father, Scott, on UH<\/abbr>‘s 1970 roster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The answer is Taylor\u2019s father, Scott, played football for the UH<\/abbr> Rainbows! “I Think He Knows,” but we didn\u2019t. A surprising connection, but “Shake it Off” because “You Need to Calm Down” and read on.<\/p>\n

Before graduating from the University of Delaware and becoming a stockbroker, Scott Swift suited up in green and white, colors that never go out of “Style,” for UH<\/abbr> as a freshman center in 1970. He wasn\u2019t “The Man,” but his team, which played in the old Honolulu Stadium (current Old Stadium Park in M\u014dʻiliʻili<\/span>), went 9-2 as opponents suffered “Death by a Thousand Cuts” with victories over Fresno State (49-0), UNLV<\/abbr> (28-21) and Santa Clara (39-24).<\/p>\n

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Imagine the “Afterglow” after that successful season as many long time UH<\/abbr> fans may be reading about the 1970 season now and think, “I Forgot That You Existed.”<\/p>\n

Emily Morden, a Swiftie and UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa communications student, said she was shocked to hear of Taylor\u2019s connection to UH<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n

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“I am even more proud to be a student at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa now that I know Scott Swift once played on our football team,” Morden said. “Never in my ‘Wildest Dreams’ would I ever think Scott Swift walked the same campus as I have.”<\/p>\n

So, yes, at one time, UH<\/abbr> could tell Scott, “You Belong With Me.” Isn\u2019t it just so pretty to think, all along there was some “Invisible String” tying Taylor to UH<\/abbr>?<\/p>\n

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Taylor Swift’s father Scott, a former football player at UH<\/abbr>, is in the second from the top row, third from the left.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s football and no, not NFL<\/abbr> Tight End Travis Kelce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,83,9,550],"class_list":["post-187728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-football","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t