As the Kansas City Chiefs try to win their second straight Super Bowl, the team is promoted Travis Kelce‘s romance with Taylor Swift in their new one play-off hype video.
“The regular season is over and we had a great year / Happy postseason, Chiefs Kingdom, the playoffs are here / It may not be a holiday, but we treat it like one / Three Super Bowls under our belt and the fun is on just getting started,” a narrator says during a highlights segment from the Chiefs 2023 season.
Then Kelce, 34, appears on screen and throws a football into the stands after scoring a touchdown, and the speaker references one of Swift’s biggest hits.
“Valentine’s Day is jealous of the ‘love story’ we have / Who could ever separate the end zone from Trav?”
From her second album from 2008, fearless, “Love Story” was certified eight times platinum. Inspired by Romeo and Juliet‘, says Swift, also 34 Times that IIn 2009: “That’s the most romantic song I’ve written.”
When she recorded the song for Fearless (Taylor’s version) in 2021, she said in a press release: “It’s also a great example of what a hopeless romantic I was and still am.”
In the Shakespeare tragedy, Romeo and Juliet died by suicide after their families disapproved of their marriage. For “Love Story,” Swift turned sadness into happiness.
In the song she sings, “Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone / I’m waiting, all I gotta do is run / You’ll be the prince and I’ll be the princess / It’s a love story, baby, just sayin Yes”
“I really loved the story of Romeo and Juliet, except for the ending because that was just too devastating to process,” she continued in the press release. “So I changed the ending of the song and since then I’ve been so humbled by the fact that people have celebrated this song so much. I’m lucky that people responded that way to it and that they still do.”
Like the Chiefs, the NFL has also spotlighted Kelce’s relationship with the “Anti-Hero” singer. The team hosts the Miami Dolphins on Saturday for their playoff game at Arrowhead Stadium a featurettethe league referred to the tight end as “Travis Swift Kelce,” as we see Swift celebrating in a VIP suite while watching him play.
The Chiefs’ video mentioned Valentine’s Day, and this will be the first V-Day for Kelce and Swift. Travis joked that he feels the “pressure” of finding the right gift while talking to his brother, Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles, on the Wednesday, January 10 episode of their “New heights“podcast. .
The couple will have to adjust their busy schedules to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Swift will be on another leg of hers Eras tour. On February 10, she ends a four-night residency in Tokyo. The next day, February 11, Super Bowl LVIII will be played in Las Vegas, and Travis hopes the Chiefs will be there to defend their championship. Five days later, Swift will kick off the Australian leg in Melbourne on February 16.