Taylor Swift received over the complete Kansas Metropolis Chiefs group after she began relationship tight finish Travis Kelce.
“All people stayed away [and] simply let [Travis] do what he was doing,” beginning quarterback Patrick Mahomes stated throughout a December 2023 interview on CBS Mornings. “Then he began bringing Taylor round. He realized how cool of an individual she was — and he or she is — and so for us, there have been a few jokes right here and there firstly. She’s a part of the workforce.”
Swift and Kelce’s romance began in summer season 2023. They stepped out collectively for the first time after one of many Chiefs’ residence video games at Arrowhead Stadium that fall. Since then, Swift has been a fixture at NFL matchups.
“Soccer is superior, it seems,” she quipped to TIME in a 2023 profile. “I’ve been lacking out my complete life.”
Kelce’s teammates and different members of the Chiefs group have since gotten a front-row seat to watch his love story with the pop star unfold. Maintain scrolling for his or her greatest quotes:
Clark Hunt
Hunt’s household owns the Chiefs with Clark serving because the group’s CEO.
“We’re so blissful for Travis Kelce and Taylor of their relationship. I’ve had an opportunity to fulfill her at one of many many video games that she’s attended this yr,” Clark said on CNBC in January 2024. “She’s simply as candy as she might be. I additionally acquired to see her play right here [at Arrowhead] twice this previous summer season and what an unbelievable performer. I imply, simply one of the crucial unbelievable artists of our time.”
He added, “The eye that’s been targeted on the Chiefs, our feminine viewers has grown leaps and bounds. That’s proper, it was purely natural. … After they had been simply beginning off relationship, there have been lots of people saying, ‘Oh, it’s a advertising stunt,’ however no, it’s very actual and crucial factor is we’re blissful for the 2 of them.”
The next July, Clark referred to as Swift “part of Chiefs Kingdom” throughout a workforce occasion.
“She is in Liverpool this week [on tour] and we had a hoop ceremony a few nights in the past, which she stayed up for, it was about 4 a.m. in Liverpool,” Clark added. “She despatched a social media communication that used the phrase, ‘we,’ so she is certainly a part of the workforce’s kingdom.”
Swift had tuned into Chariah Gordon’s livestream of the ceremony by which the group members obtained their 2024 Tremendous Bowl rings. (Gordon is engaged to Chiefs large receiver Mecole Hardman Jr. and infrequently watches video games from Swift’s suite at Arrowhead.)
Gracie Hunt
Clark and his spouse, Tavia Hunt, share kids Gracie, Knobel and Ava, all of whom are massive followers of Swift’s.
“She is simply so lovely, variety, gracious and candy,” Gracie exclusively told Us Weekly in February 2024. “We’re very fortunate to have her as part of Chiefs Kingdom, and I’m so glad and really feel so honored to look at the best way that she’s additionally embraced and fallen in love with the game of soccer.”
On the time, the workforce heiress hoped that Swift and Kelce’s romance can be “finish recreation.”
Mark Donovan
The Chiefs president additionally denied hypothesis that Swift and Kelce’s connection was a advertising ploy to drum up curiosity within the workforce.
“I’d like to say that it was a advertising technique,” Donovan stated on CNBC’s Squawk Box in November 2024. “However it’s an genuine relationship and we’re blissful to have it. It’s been nothing however good for us. I feel one of the best factor I can say about the entire relationship and the influence it’s had on us is: Taylor Swift is an genuine member of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs Kingdom. She’s an genuine fan — that issues to our followers and our fanbase.”
Andy Reid
Reid, the Chiefs head coach, actually met Swift long before Kelce.
“I knew her from Philadelphia. Her dad was a giant NFL fan,” Reid, who used to teach the Eagles, stated throughout an October 2023 interview on Donovan McNabb’s “The 5 Spot” podcast. “So, I had met her when she was actual younger, and her dad.”
Months later, Reid revealed that Swift hadn’t been a “distraction” to the workforce.
“She’s a very good lady and he or she loves the sport and clearly loves Kelce, so I’m blissful for each of them,” Reid stated on SiriusXM NFL Radio in February 2024.
The following month on the Wealthy Eisen Present, Reid praised Swift as a “actually good cook dinner.”
“She makes a imply Pop-Tart, home made Pop-Tart,” he added. “She simply doesn’t share it with me, she shares with all of the linemen. I’m telling her, ‘You gotta give a little bit to the coach.’”
In the course of the 2024-2025 season, Swift even sent team members boxes of home made “Victory Pop-Tarts” to have fun recreation wins.
Brett Veach
Whereas the Chiefs common supervisor hadn’t met Swift by March 2024, he had seen a change in Kelce’s postgame routine.
“I imply she involves the video games and he or she’s up there [in a suite] and usually households come down [to the locker room area] to see the gamers,” Veach stated on the “3 and Out” podcast. “Travis goes as much as see her. The one time that we understand [she’s in the stadium] is after we’re our telephones throughout the TV timeout and CBS is zooming in on Taylor, you’re reminded that they’re collectively, however Travis is a straight professional and the blokes deal with him like that.”
Stefanie Hills
The former Chiefs cheerleader additionally revealed that Swift would meet up with Kelce after every recreation.
“She would at all times meet Travis by [his] locker room,” Hills stated in a December 2024 TikTok video. “All these photos of her game-day outfits strolling down [the] purple tunnels at Arrowhead are proper subsequent to the gamers’ locker room, which is correct subsequent door to the Chiefs cheer locker room, and there have been so many shut encounters [we had].”
Taylor Swift received over the complete Kansas Metropolis Chiefs group after she began relationship tight finish Travis Kelce.
“All people stayed away [and] simply let [Travis] do what he was doing,” beginning quarterback Patrick Mahomes stated throughout a December 2023 interview on CBS Mornings. “Then he began bringing Taylor round. He realized how cool of an individual she was — and he or she is — and so for us, there have been a few jokes right here and there firstly. She’s a part of the workforce.”
Swift and Kelce’s romance began in summer season 2023. They stepped out collectively for the first time after one of many Chiefs’ residence video games at Arrowhead Stadium that fall. Since then, Swift has been a fixture at NFL matchups.
“Soccer is superior, it seems,” she quipped to TIME in a 2023 profile. “I’ve been lacking out my complete life.”
Kelce’s teammates and different members of the Chiefs group have since gotten a front-row seat to watch his love story with the pop star unfold. Maintain scrolling for his or her greatest quotes:
Clark Hunt
Hunt’s household owns the Chiefs with Clark serving because the group’s CEO.
“We’re so blissful for Travis Kelce and Taylor of their relationship. I’ve had an opportunity to fulfill her at one of many many video games that she’s attended this yr,” Clark said on CNBC in January 2024. “She’s simply as candy as she might be. I additionally acquired to see her play right here [at Arrowhead] twice this previous summer season and what an unbelievable performer. I imply, simply one of the crucial unbelievable artists of our time.”
He added, “The eye that’s been targeted on the Chiefs, our feminine viewers has grown leaps and bounds. That’s proper, it was purely natural. … After they had been simply beginning off relationship, there have been lots of people saying, ‘Oh, it’s a advertising stunt,’ however no, it’s very actual and crucial factor is we’re blissful for the 2 of them.”
The next July, Clark referred to as Swift “part of Chiefs Kingdom” throughout a workforce occasion.
“She is in Liverpool this week [on tour] and we had a hoop ceremony a few nights in the past, which she stayed up for, it was about 4 a.m. in Liverpool,” Clark added. “She despatched a social media communication that used the phrase, ‘we,’ so she is certainly a part of the workforce’s kingdom.”
Swift had tuned into Chariah Gordon’s livestream of the ceremony by which the group members obtained their 2024 Tremendous Bowl rings. (Gordon is engaged to Chiefs large receiver Mecole Hardman Jr. and infrequently watches video games from Swift’s suite at Arrowhead.)
Gracie Hunt
Clark and his spouse, Tavia Hunt, share kids Gracie, Knobel and Ava, all of whom are massive followers of Swift’s.
“She is simply so lovely, variety, gracious and candy,” Gracie exclusively told Us Weekly in February 2024. “We’re very fortunate to have her as part of Chiefs Kingdom, and I’m so glad and really feel so honored to look at the best way that she’s additionally embraced and fallen in love with the game of soccer.”
On the time, the workforce heiress hoped that Swift and Kelce’s romance can be “finish recreation.”
Mark Donovan
The Chiefs president additionally denied hypothesis that Swift and Kelce’s connection was a advertising ploy to drum up curiosity within the workforce.
“I’d like to say that it was a advertising technique,” Donovan stated on CNBC’s Squawk Box in November 2024. “However it’s an genuine relationship and we’re blissful to have it. It’s been nothing however good for us. I feel one of the best factor I can say about the entire relationship and the influence it’s had on us is: Taylor Swift is an genuine member of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs Kingdom. She’s an genuine fan — that issues to our followers and our fanbase.”
Andy Reid
Reid, the Chiefs head coach, actually met Swift long before Kelce.
“I knew her from Philadelphia. Her dad was a giant NFL fan,” Reid, who used to teach the Eagles, stated throughout an October 2023 interview on Donovan McNabb’s “The 5 Spot” podcast. “So, I had met her when she was actual younger, and her dad.”
Months later, Reid revealed that Swift hadn’t been a “distraction” to the workforce.
“She’s a very good lady and he or she loves the sport and clearly loves Kelce, so I’m blissful for each of them,” Reid stated on SiriusXM NFL Radio in February 2024.
The following month on the Wealthy Eisen Present, Reid praised Swift as a “actually good cook dinner.”
“She makes a imply Pop-Tart, home made Pop-Tart,” he added. “She simply doesn’t share it with me, she shares with all of the linemen. I’m telling her, ‘You gotta give a little bit to the coach.’”
In the course of the 2024-2025 season, Swift even sent team members boxes of home made “Victory Pop-Tarts” to have fun recreation wins.
Brett Veach
Whereas the Chiefs common supervisor hadn’t met Swift by March 2024, he had seen a change in Kelce’s postgame routine.
“I imply she involves the video games and he or she’s up there [in a suite] and usually households come down [to the locker room area] to see the gamers,” Veach stated on the “3 and Out” podcast. “Travis goes as much as see her. The one time that we understand [she’s in the stadium] is after we’re our telephones throughout the TV timeout and CBS is zooming in on Taylor, you’re reminded that they’re collectively, however Travis is a straight professional and the blokes deal with him like that.”
Stefanie Hills
The former Chiefs cheerleader additionally revealed that Swift would meet up with Kelce after every recreation.
“She would at all times meet Travis by [his] locker room,” Hills stated in a December 2024 TikTok video. “All these photos of her game-day outfits strolling down [the] purple tunnels at Arrowhead are proper subsequent to the gamers’ locker room, which is correct subsequent door to the Chiefs cheer locker room, and there have been so many shut encounters [we had].”