Taylor Swift cheers on Travis Kelce as Kansas City Chiefs win season opener
By By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN,
2024-09-06
(CNN) — Taylor Swift spent her Thursday night at Arrowhead Stadium watching her boyfriend and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce play, play, play. And win.
Wearing a denim corset, matching denim shorts and red knee-high boots, Swift strolled into the stadium over a hour before the game began, according to footage posted to social media. Welcome to the second season of “Football (Taylor’s Version).”
Swift at one point was seen sitting next to the three-time Super Bowl champ’s dad Ed Kelce, who was proudly repping both of his sons in a “New Heights” podcast ball cap. Swift was later shown on NBC’s broadcast celebrating one of Kelce’s successful catches with his mom, Donna Kelce.
Swift and Kelce have been romantically linked since September 2023, when the singer first showed up to one of Kelce’s football games after he detailed his efforts to connect with her during an Eras Tour concert stop in Kansas City.
She went on to become a fixture at his games – and on our TV screens during game-day broadcasts – throughout last season while showing up to support Kelce during breaks from her tour.
Her presence at the games became an oft-discussed topic.
Many embraced her connection to the league and the new female audience that she brought with it, while some NFL loyalists took issue with the amount of attention she received during each game’s broadcast.
The “Fortnight” singer acknowledged the conversation surrounding her NFL exposure in an interview with Time magazine last year, saying, “I’m just there to support Travis.”
“I have no awareness of if I’m being shown too much and pissing off a few dads, Brads, and Chads,” she said.
Kelce’s teammate Patrick Mahomes, the leading Quarterback in the NFL, previously spoke about how “extremely cool” he thinks it is that Swift kept showing up to their games, despite the discourse.
“Obviously, she’s just here to support Travis in the best way possible,” he said in February during a pre-Super Bowl press conference. “It has done a great job of bringing more people to football and how great the sport is.”
Mahomes added that as “a father to a daughter as well, I love that she watches the games and loves football.”
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