Taylor Swift has often been present at Kansas City Chiefs games this season, cheering on the team and mostly her boyfriend, Travis Kelce.
The pop music superstar has been a hit for the NFL, with TV ratings soaring due to Swifties tuning in. Chiefs players have gotten and up-close look at the dynamic, and according to quarterback Patrick Mahomes, Swift has grown to now be a part of the team.
“She’s just part of Chiefs kingdom now. She’s part of the team,” Mahomes said in a recent interview on CBS Mornings, via The Huffington Post. “It’s been cool to kind of interact with her, because she’s top-tier at her profession, and see how she drives. And it’s cool that she’s embraced Brittany, and they’ve built a friendship as well.”
Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce open up on public relationship
While Swift has been good for the NFL’s business, and obviously, for Kelce, a segment of NFL fans will tell you they’re turned off by the coverage of her. Swift herself doesn’t care what any Brad or Chad thinks.
“I’m just there to support Travis,” Swift recently told Time. “I have no awareness of if I’m being shown too much and pi--ing off a few dads, Brads, and Chads.”
Swift even admitted she has no idea when or how much the broadcasts are showing her throughout games.
“I don’t know how they know what suite I’m in,” Swift said. “There’s a camera, like, a half-mile away, and you don’t know where it is, and you have no idea when then [sic] camera is putting you in the broadcast, so I don’t know if I’m being shown 17 times or once.”
As for Kelce, he’s enjoying his time thus far with Swift, and recently admired her publicly for how smart she is.
“I’ve never been a man of words,” Kelce told The Wall Street Journal. “Being around her, seeing how smart Taylor is, has been f—ing mind-blowing. I’m learning every day.”
He added: “Obviously I’ve never dated anyone with that kind of aura about them … I’ve never dealt with it. But at the same time, I’m not running away from any of it. … The scrutiny she gets, how much she has a magnifying glass on her, every single day, paparazzi outside her house, outside every restaurant she goes to, after every flight she gets off, and she’s just living, enjoying life. When she acts like that, I better not be the one acting all strange.”
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