Taylor Swift on the football field for the first time to kiss Travis Kelce after the Kansas City Chiefs won the football game on Sunday, January 28, securing their spot at the 2024 Super Bowl.
Swift, 34, attended Sunday's AFC Championship game in support of her boyfriend and his team, the Kansas City Chiefs, who played the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium in Maryland for a position in Super Bowl LVIII. The Chiefs won 17-10, and they will play the San Francisco 49ers or the Detroit Lions in the big game, depending on which team wins the NFC Championship.
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— The Swift Society (@TheSwiftSociety) January 28, 2024
With his performance in the game, Kelce became the all-time postseason leader in playoff receptions. Swift was seen smiling as Kelce accepted the AFC Championship trophy, but she wasn't the musician he quoted while holding the hardware. “You have to fight for your right to party!” shouted a cheerful Kelce, quoting the Beastie Boys.
Swift has been a proud member of Chiefs Kingdom since she started dating Kelce, 34, in the summer of 2023. The Grammy winner attended her first game at Arrowhead Stadium in September 2023 and has since been a fixture as the season progresses.
Announcers have often mentioned Swift during the broadcasts of Chiefs games. Retired NFL athlete Tony Romo even called her Kelce's “wife” – twice.
“And his wife loves it — I mean girlfriend,” Romo, 43, during the 2023 Christmas game as Swift celebrated a big play.
His fellow broadcaster Jim Nantzreplied: “You've been there before.”
Romo previously made the same blunder during a game earlier in December 2023 against the Buffalo Bills.
Weeks later, Kelce and the Chiefs played the Bills again in the divisional playoffs. Swift sat in a private box at New York's stadium with Kelce's entire family on Jan. 21 and got another shout-out.
“Look who's in the house, that's Taylor Swift, the MVP – the most valuable princess – of Chiefs Kingdom,” an announcer joked during the broadcast.
Swift hasn't let any commentary deter her, as her main goal on game day is simply to cheer on Kelce and his teammates.
“When you say a relationship is public, that means I'm going to see him do what he loves, that we stand up for each other, that there are other people out there and we don't care,” Swift shared. TIME magazine last month in its Person of the Year cover story. 'The opposite of that is that you have to go to extreme lengths to make sure no one knows you're seeing someone. And we are just proud of each other.”
Swift went on to explain that she has “no idea” how many times cameras pan to her during a given broadcast. “I'm just here to support Travis,” she emphasized. “I'm not sure if I'm showing too much and pissing off some dads, Brads and Chads.”
At a press conference on Friday, January 26, Kelce said he and Swift have talked about keeping the focus on their happiness. “The one thing we talked about is that as long as we're happy, we can't listen to outside noises,” he said. “That's all that matters.”