Travis Kelce Comments About His Love for Taylor Swift During Kansas City Chiefs Panel
Football is back—are you acceptable for it?
Now that August sipped distant similar a vessel of wine, the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens are kicking disconnected NFL season by facing disconnected astatine Arrowhead Stadium successful Missouri connected Sept. 5. And arsenic fans ticker it statesman again, they’ll beryllium keeping an oculus retired for Taylor Swift.
Close your eyes and the flashbacks start, she was lasting there—on a balcony (or alternatively successful a luxury suite with Donna Kelce) successful the September 2023 aerial to cheer connected fellow Travis Kelce astatine her archetypal Chiefs game. While the sighting fueled already existing romance rumors astir the Grammy victor and the choky end, she aboriginal confirmed that this wasn’t really the opening of their emotion story.
“This each started erstwhile Travis precise adorably enactment maine connected blast connected his podcast, which I thought was metallic arsenic hell,” Taylor recalled to TIME successful her December Person of the Year profile, referencing however Travis revealed connected a July 2023 occurrence of his New Heights podcast that helium wanted to springiness her a relationship bracelet with his fig on it astatine her Eras Tour amusement but things didn't spell according to his crippled plan. “We started hanging retired close aft that. So we really had a important magnitude of clip that nary 1 knew, which I’m grateful for, due to the fact that we got to get to cognize each other. By the clip I went to that archetypal game, we were a couple.”
That archetypal crippled turned into 12 more—with fortunate No. 13 being the Chiefs' 2024 Super Bowl victory. And considering this marked back-to-back Vince Lombardi trophies for the team, you could accidental they developed a winning reputation.
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Travis and Taylor's narration grew beyond the field—with them going connected star-studded day nights, vacationing together and him supporting her astatine her Eras Tour concerts. And portion dating successful the nationalist oculus tin travel with challenges, they simply effort to shingle them off.
“When you accidental a narration is public, that means 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,” Taylor told the magazine. “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. And we’re conscionable arrogant of each other.”
But marque nary mistake: While the “Blank Space” vocalist loves the player, she besides loves the game.
“She’s truly funny successful football,” Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes told NBC’s Chris Simms successful August. “She asks a batch of large questions. She’s already drawn up plays. We mightiness person to enactment 1 in.”
Although, these plays aren’t needfully for the full team.
"She’s a small biased and conscionable creates plays for me," Travis noted connected a Sept. 3 occurrence of The Rich Eisen Show. "So, we’ll spot if they tin marque Coach [Andy] Reid’s office.”
As they proceed to beryllium each other's biggest cheerleaders—with his reps calling an alleged breakup media program that precocious dispersed online "entirely mendacious and fabricated"—keep speechmaking to look backmost astatine Taylor's crippled time benignant past season.
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