Video shows massive crowd outside Soldier Field to hear Taylor Swift’…

Despite pleas from the stadium itself, thousands of Taylor Swift fans set up camp outside Soldier Field in hopes of simply hearing Taylor Swift’s Chicago shows as they happened.

Video captured by Chicago Today’s Matthew Rodrigues showed hundreds of ticketless fans with chairs and blankets sitting outside the venue, singing along and dancing as they staged their own outdoor seating.

“We tried and tried and tried to get tickets, and earlier this week my husband said, ‘You know it’s going to be a once in a lifetime atmosphere,'” said Kelly Kennedy, 40, who brought her 8-year-old daughter and a friend to the grass near the stadium for Friday’s show. “You can’t be inside but maybe you can go sit outside and still be part of the experience.”

More than 190,000 lucky Taylor Swift ticket holders over the course of three nights took over Solder Field in Chicago.

Late last week, Soldier Field announced that the venue and the area around it were at “max capacity” and…