Travis Kelce’s Chiefs Teammates Reveal Their Response to Taylor Swift Attending Her First Sport

Travis Kelce’s Kansas Metropolis Chiefs teammates had been starstruck when Taylor Swift confirmed as much as her first NFL sport in September 2023, hard-launching her romance with the NFL tight finish.

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and defensive deal with Chris Jones swooned over the pop star’s viral look in ESPN’s The Kingdom docuseries, which hit ESPN, ESPN+ and Disney+ on Thursday, Aug. 14.

“We had been within the locker room like, ‘Taylor Swift’s right here.’ ‘Taylor Swift? For actual? With Travis? Oh my God!’ ” Jones recalled in a clip of the particular. “We had been like ‘Oh my God Travis pulled Taylor Swift.’ “

Mahomes confessed that Kelce had informed him earlier that week that Taylor was coming to the sport; nonetheless, he wasn’t satisfied it could really occur.

“I used to be like, ‘I gotta see it earlier than I consider it,’ ” Mahomes stated.

In footage of Kelce and Mahomes on the sector, Mahomes is heard saying of Swift, “That is the primary particular person I seen, I did not see anyone else.”

“You positively felt the thrill,” Mahomes recalled in The Kingdom. “You might see folks within the stadium gravitating to the place she was at. On the identical time, we had enterprise to deal with.”

Swift famously attended Week 3 of the Chiefs’ 2023-2024 season, as they took on the Chicago Bears at GEHA Subject at Arrowhead Stadium. On the time, studies had been circulating that Kelce and Swift had been relationship; nonetheless, they hadn’t confirmed their relationship but.

Her look on the sport solidified their romance as Swift was seen having fun with the match from a collection with Kelce’s mother, Donna Kelce. The couple then left the sport collectively after the Chiefs beat the Bears 41-10.

Additionally within the clip, the staff’s Chief Advertising Officer, Lara Krug, recalled Chiefs president Mark Donovan calling her on a Friday afternoon to let her know that Swift can be attending the sport.

“I bear in mind getting off the cellphone and searching the window being like, ‘Huh … that is a giant deal,’ ” Krug stated.

Donovan then shared within the documentary that Krug walked into his workplace, closed the door, and requested him, ” ‘This is not like regular, is it?’ I am like, ‘No, Laura, this isn’t regular.’ ”

Swift went on to attend a number of extra video games in assist of Kelce and the Chiefs. In February 2024, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell embraced the pair’s romance, telling CBS Mornings co-host Nathaniel Burleson: “They’re glad, they appear to be having fun with their relationship. That’s nice, in and of itself. However it has related extra followers of Taylor’s and extra followers of the NFL in some methods. Form of, to see that they’ve a connection, now [fans] have a connection to our sport and to Taylor.”

He continued, “She’s an unbelievable artist, clearly Travis is an unbelievable participant. I feel it’s nice for the league to have that sort of consideration. So, we welcome it.”