There has all the time been an invisible string between Taylor Swift and the Kansas Town Chiefs within the type of head trainer Andy Reid — however Travis Kelce wasn’t precisely jazzed to be told about it.
“I knew [Taylor] before, from Philadelphia,” Reid, 65, defined all through the Monday, January 29, episode of SiriusXM’s Let’s Move! With Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Grey. “Her dad played [football] at [the University of] Delaware and was a big football fan and good guy. So I had met him there and her.”
Prior to transferring to Nashville within the early 2000s, Swift, 34, grew up on a Christmas Tree farm in Pennsylvania. The pop big name has been open about her circle of relatives’s love for the Philadelphia Eagles over time, even running the staff into a few of her songs. Reid, for his section, acted as head trainer for the Eagles from 1999 to 2012 ahead of transferring directly to the Chiefs, the staff of Swift’s present boyfriend Travis Kelce.
Reid joked on Monday that his longtime bond with the Swift’s was once the “last thing” Kelce, 34, sought after to listen to when he began relationship the Grammy winner in summer season 2023. “[Taylor] told [Travis], ‘I know your coach.’ And he went, ‘Oh, God, come on!’” Reid recalled, giggling.
Swift and Kelce had been devoted to appearing up in strengthen of one another since sparking a romance, with Swift attending greater than 10 of Kelce’s video games since September 2023. She was once within the crowd when the Chiefs beat the Baltimore Ravens for the AFC Championship on Sunday, January 28, and was once noticed hugging and kissing Kelce at the box after the sport. Swift and Reid additionally shared their very own particular second, pointing and smiling to one another from around the crowd.
The happiness Swift has introduced Kelce is one thing Reid is thankful to peer. “She’s a good girl. And I’m happy for Trav,” he informed Let’s Move! host Tom Brady, noting that their romance has no longer led to any form of “distraction” for the tight finish. “Trav’s handled it right, she’s handled it right and we just move forward. So it hasn’t been a problem at all.”
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Reid has been a supporter of the connection from the very starting, In November 2023, he shared that he's simply grateful the pair have each and every different. “I’m glad he’s found somebody he likes and she’s found somebody she likes,” he stated all through an interview with KHSB, Kansas Town’s NBC associate. “That’s a good thing.”
Two months previous, he teased that he was once the one that performed Cupid. “I set them up,” he informed journalists in a September 2023 press convention ahead of briefly exiting the rostrum.
Kelce and Swift’s love tale started in July 2023 when the athlete published that he attended one in all Swift’s live shows to offer her a friendship bracelet together with his telephone quantity on it. Even though unsuccessful, Swift later stuck wind of the gesture and the duo started relationship in a while after. Kelce later defined that there was once any individual fascinated about atmosphere them up even ahead of he attended her live performance.
“There were definitely people she knew that knew who I was, in her corner [who said]: ‘Yo! Did you know he was coming?’” he informed WSJ. Mag in November 2023. “I had somebody playing Cupid. She [later] told me exactly what was going on and how I got lucky enough to get her to reach out.”
Whilst Reid was once indisputably a connection for Swift and Kelce upon assembly, the couple’s actual matchmaker, dust observe racer Danny Frye III, published himself previous this month.
“Funny thing is, a lot of people have been trying to figure out who I am lately. It’s been an interesting month or so [and] I’ve been going to a few Chiefs games,” Frye, who's Swift’s 2nd cousin, informed FloRacing TV on the time. “You know, [I] made a love connection between her and Travis Kelce, so it’s been quite the 34 years that [Taylor and I have] had together.”
Even though Reid wasn’t who struck Swift and Kelce with Cupid’s arrow, the trainer made it transparent all through an October 2023 press convention that the singer is all the time welcome in Kansas Town: “She can stay around all she wants,” he stated.