Taylor Swift grew to become a member of Chiefs Kingdom when she began courting Travis Kelce — and she or he’s prepared to affix the crew.
“She’s probably the most well-known individual on the planet, after which she’s actually involved in soccer,” Kansas Metropolis Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes stated throughout a Thursday, August 29, interview on NFL on NBC. “She requested plenty of nice questions. She’s already drawing up performs.”
Mahomes, 28, added that he and his teammates “may need to place one” of Swift’s performs into motion when the NFL season kicks off on Thursday, September 5.
Swift, 34, grew to become a brand new soccer fan in fall 2023, months after she began seeing Kelce, additionally 34. The pair first began talking after she heard his “New Heights” podcast episode discussing his crush and a missed connection at her July 2023 Eras Tour live performance.
After privately attending to know each other, the pair took their romance public when she attended her first Chiefs sport final September.
“So we really had a major period of time that nobody knew, which I’m grateful for as a result of we bought to get to know one another. By the point I went to that first sport, we have been a pair,” Swift recalled in her 2023 TIME Particular person of the Yr profile. “I feel some individuals suppose that they noticed our first date at that sport? We might by no means be psychotic sufficient to onerous launch a primary date.”
She added, “Whenever you say a relationship is public, which means I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re exhibiting up for one another, different persons are there and we don’t care. The other of that’s it’s important to go to an excessive quantity of effort to ensure nobody is aware of that you just’re seeing somebody. And we’re simply pleased with one another.”
Kelce even supplied to arrange the pop star with lodging so she may privately stroll by means of the crew’s Arrowhead Stadium with out overwhelming fanfare. Swift, nevertheless, wished to witness the total NFL expertise along with his household and associates. (Swift sat in a personal field with Kelce’s associates and his mother, Donna.)
After the primary sport, Swift went to 12 extra video games, together with February’s Tremendous Bowl LVIII.
“Soccer is superior, it seems,” Swift joked to TIME. “I’ve been lacking out my complete life.”
Swift was additionally there when Kelce received his third Tremendous Bowl trophy earlier this yr, becoming a member of him on the sector in Las Vegas to rejoice with a sideline kiss.
On the finish of the NFL season, Kelce joined Swift on the highway as she took her Eras Tour abroad. The European leg wrapped earlier this month, which she celebrated with a calming getaway in Rhode Island with Kelce on August 24.
“She was so comfortable to reunite with him and simply be collectively,” a supply completely informed Us Weekly. “It’s been grounding to see family and friends and spend high quality time with everybody, chat and get downloaded on everybody’s worlds as a result of she has been so busy and disconnected.”
Swift now has a hiatus till Eras Tour exhibits resume in October, wrapping for good in December.