Christmas in the Spotlight: The Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce Easter Eggs

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's emotion communicative began successful July 2023, erstwhile the singer's Eras Tour made a halt astatine Arrowhead Stadium successful Kansas City, Mo.

As a immense Swiftie, the Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity caught the amusement with hopes of giving Taylor a relationship bracelet with his fig connected it. However, helium failed to implicit the walk owed to her pre-show rituals.

"I was disappointed that she doesn't speech earlier oregon aft her shows due to the fact that she has to prevention her dependable for the 44 songs that she sings," Travis shared on the July 26 episode of his New Heights podcast. "So, I was a small butt-hurt I didn't get to manus her 1 of the bracelets I made for her."

After publically recounting his fumble—a determination Taylor would aboriginal picture arsenic "metal arsenic hell"—Travis decided to shoot his shot and invitation the Grammy victor to ticker the Chiefs play astatine Arrowhead Stadium.

"I threw it retired there, I threw the shot successful her court," helium shared connected The Pat McAfee Show. "I told her, you know, 'I've seen you stone the signifier successful Arrowhead, you mightiness person to travel spot maine stone the signifier successful Arrowhead and spot which one's a small much lit.' So, we'll spot what happens successful the adjacent future."

Travis was rocking a mustache—which helium debuted successful August during grooming camp—when helium was archetypal introduced to Taylor.

As helium aboriginal noted of the era, "That 'stache and the 87 jersey was beauteous iconic determination for a small bit, and I had it erstwhile I met Taylor for the archetypal time."

By aboriginal September, a root adjacent to the concern told E! News that Travis and Taylor were "texting and talking present and there."

"It's been precise low-key," the insider explained, "as he's been successful season."

Accepting Travis' invite, Taylor joined the athlete's mom Donna Kelce at Arrowhead Stadium to ticker him and the Chiefs instrumentality connected the Chicago Bears. After the game, Taylor and Travis were seen packing PDA astatine a section bar.

Though folklore had it that it was the couple's archetypal in-person meeting, the "Karma" vocalist aboriginal clarified the 2 had spent a "significant magnitude of time" getting to cognize each different beforehand.

As Taylor noted, "We would ne'er beryllium psychotic capable to hard motorboat a archetypal date." 

As an denotation that the narration was heating up, Taylor brought her squad—including friends Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Sophie Turner, Hugh Jackman, Sabrina Carpenter and Antoni Porowski—to ticker the Chiefs play against the New York Jets astatine MetLife Stadium successful New Jersey.

Another motion that Travis could beryllium The 1? Taylor started bonding with Brittany Mahomes—the woman of Travis' BFF and teammate Patrick Mahomes—in and outside of NFL games.

The mates took their romance to TV, making a astonishment appearance connected the Oct. 14 occurrence of Saturday Night Live. Their Big Apple takeover besides included the after-party for the NBC sketch amusement and a date nighttime astatine the Waverly Inn.

During a bye week, Travis traveled down to Argentina to drawback the South American limb of Taylor's Eras Tour. Not lone did the NFL prima bond with Taylor's dad, Scott Swift, at the Nov. 11 amusement successful Buenos Aires, but helium besides got a peculiar shoutout from the stage.

"Karma is that feline connected the Chiefs," Taylor sang, "coming consecutive location to me."

After the show, the Midnights artist was seen moving up to Travis backstage and greeting him with a passionate kiss.

Taylor addressed the lavender craze surrounding her appearances astatine Travis' games.

"I'm going to spot him bash what helium loves, we're showing up for each other, different radical are determination and we don't care," she told Time. "The other of that is you person to spell to an utmost magnitude of effort to marque definite nary 1 knows that you're seeing someone."

The euphony superstar turned Travis' Dec. 17 crippled into a household affair, bringing her dada to cheer connected her man.

Continuing to enslaved with Travis' family, Taylor hung retired with his member Jason Kelce and sister-in-law Kylie Kelce astatine the Chiefs' crippled against the Buffalo Bills.

Taylor joined Travis connected the shot tract erstwhile the Chiefs won the AFC Championship, a triumph that cemented the team's spot successful the 2024 Super Bowl. The mates shared a celebratory kiss earlier exchanging the L-word.

"Tay, I'm gonna bask with the guys," helium told her. "I emotion you—so overmuch it's not funny."