Travis Kelce has earned a brand new nickname from the NFL — and it’s connected to female friend, Taylor Swift.
Forward of the Kansas Town Chiefs Tremendous Wild Card Weekend matchup in opposition to the Miami Dolphins on Saturday, January 13, the NFL launched a video highlighting the groups’ seasons and avid gamers.
“And now they take on Travis Swift Kelce, second-most yards for a tight end in 2023 at 984,” the voiceover quipped within the YouTube preview launched on Wednesday, January 10.
The video endured with a clip of Swift, 34, protruding her tongue whilst gazing Kelce, 34, and the Chiefs beat the New England Patriots in December 2023. Swift and Brittany Mahomes have been additionally proven sharing a celebratory handshake after the Chiefs scored a landing. (Brittany, 28, is married to Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.)
Whilst the connection with Kelce and Swift was once apparently intentional, the pair’s courting standing has been flubbed within the protection NFL video games up to now. All through the CBS broadcast of the Chiefs recreation as opposed to the Buffalo Expenses in December 2023, Tony Romo attempted to give a shout out to the “Karma” singer, who was once in attendance cheering on her boyfriend.
“As you see, Kelce’s wife, Taylor Swift, in the audience,” Romo, 43, instructed audience, earlier than guffawing at his mistake. “I’m sorry, girlfriend.”
“Not yet,” fellow commentator Jim Nantz added, earlier than asking, “You don’t know something we don’t know, do you?”
Later that very same month, Romo made the similar error when the Chiefs confronted off in opposition to the Las Vegas Raiders. Whilst speaking about Kelce’s 900th profession reception, the digicam panned to Swift ringing a bell within the suite at Arrowhead Stadium.
“And his wife loves it — I mean girlfriend,” Romo mentioned as he corrected himself.
Whilst the pair don't seem to be seeing marriage ceremony bells of their long run relatively but, they have got had “plenty of really deep conversations about their future together,” a supply solely instructed Us Weekly in December 2023.
“When they can’t physically be together, they are constantly texting, calling, and FaceTiming. Taylor’s relationship with Travis is like nothing she’s ever experienced before. They got serious fairly quickly and she was proud to show off their relationship from the jump,” the supply mentioned, including that they're looking to “make as much time for each other as possible” amid their “incredibly busy schedules.”
Swift published later that month that she and Kelce “started hanging out right after” the NFL participant publicly displayed pastime in her. (After attending her Eras Excursion live performance in July 2023, Kelce shared on his and brother Jason Kelce‘s “New Heights” podcast that he was once hoping to present Swift his telephone quantity.)
“We actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for because we got to get to know each other,” Swift shared right through her TIME Mag profile in December 2023.