Singer Taylor Swift appeared in a commercial proclaiming her fandom for which team?

Singer Taylor Swift appeared in a commercial proclaiming her fandom for the Nashville Predators. The hockey team’s Nashville connection fit Swift’s own early-career identity: she moved to the Nashville area as a teenager to pursue country music and became closely associated with the city’s entertainment world.

The Predators joined the National Hockey League as an expansion franchise in 1998. Their name refers to the prehistoric saber-toothed cat fossil discovered in the Nashville area, rather than to a person or historical military unit. Swift’s commercial appearance came during her early rise, before she became a global pop superstar, and presented her as a local celebrity supporting Nashville’s NHL team.

This fact is sometimes confused with Swift’s later association with football through her public appearances at Kansas City Chiefs games. The commercial in this question concerned hockey and the Nashville Predators, not the Chiefs, Tennessee Titans, or Pittsburgh Penguins. The connection also reflects how strongly Nashville’s country-music and professional-sports identities overlap.