It was Saturday in a balmy New Orleans, and Jennifer Slay, the wife of Darius Slay Jr., a cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles, was at a party in the French Quarter, hugging and greeting a crowd of women whose husbands also play professional football, some for the Kansas City Chiefs.

On Sunday night in the Superdome, their husbands will face each other in the Super Bowl.

“It’s always like, you know, ‘Hey, who is going to win?’” she said.

But in this room, at this moment, these women were not Ms. Slay’s rivals, they were her friends and her support system.

A D.J. played hip-hop while guests in Mardi Gras beads line danced in the middle of the room or huddled on couches chatting in groups.

“When you are with the other wives, you feel like you can relate to each other and be so comfortable around each other,” Ms. Slay said. “These women are amazing, and we all empower one another.”

Other high-profile wives and girlfriends have been spotted together around New Orleans this weekend. On Friday night, Taylor Swift and Brittany Mahomes dined with their partners, Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes, at Lilette, a French restaurant on New Orleans’s trendy Magazine Street.

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