Taylor Swift Leaves a Note at Travis Kelce’s Door After Being Ignored—But What He Did Next Surprised Everyone. It seems the Kansas City Chiefs star has been laser-focused on prepping for the new NFL season, possibly forgetting that his girlfriend was waiting on the other end of his phone. What happened next, though, is what has everyone talking: How exactly did Kelce manage to win back someone as strong-willed (and famously hard to read) as Taylor Swift? 𝙁𝙪𝙡𝙡 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮👉

the process, these Swifties — as dogged and keen-eyed a band of sleuths as the internet has yet produced — started building a dossier on Kelce, folding him into the vast romantic lore they have built around their idol. As the season progresses, here’s a cheat sheet with everything you need to know about her (probably) new beau.

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Catching Kelce
Everything Swifties Need to Know About Travis Kelce
Now that Taylor is more-or-less officially dating an NFL superstar, the fandom is quickly getting up to speed on his background

By Miles Klee

September 26, 2023
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are making worlds collide.
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Perhaps it was inevitable that Miss Americana herself would end up in an almost-confirmed relationship with a star of that most American sport — and a reigning champion, no less.

The appearance of Taylor Swift in the box suite of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce on Sunday, wearing unreleased team merch, marked a major cultural crossover. The pop icon — who fills stadiums so easily she reportedly turned down an invitation to headline the next Super Bowl halftime show — created a different sort of media spectacle at a regular-season NFL game, with her legions of ardent stans tuning in to scan for clues about a possible budding romance between the singer and NFL star.

In the process, these Swifties — as dogged and keen-eyed a band of sleuths as the internet has yet produced — started building a dossier on Kelce, folding him into the vast romantic lore they have built around their idol. As the season progresses, here’s a cheat sheet with everything you need to know about her (probably) new beau.

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He was very famous already.
It’s perfectly understandable that someone who doesn’t watch football might never have heard the name Travis Kelce, but he’s quite a big deal — and certain supporters believe he’s destined to go down as the greatest player at his position ever. In terms of stardom and all-around popularity, you might say he’s the Taylor Swift of the NFL.

If you want confirmation of Kelce’s reputation, go ahead and inform the football-obsessed people in your life that “Taylor Swift put Travis Kelce on the map,” as some Swifties have in a new TikTok trend where users playfully troll their loved ones. You’ll be met with sputtering protests about how Kelce has won two Super Bowls with the Chiefs, including the most recent Super Bowl LVII, this past February. Now, plenty of Swifties already follow football and know as much, but that’s the fun of these worlds colliding:

the respective fandoms each get to act like the other is a totally alien society. The NFL’s male audience, in particular, is disposed to assume that Swift’s female followers are out of their depth when it comes to the sport — and can be easily provoked with feigned ignorance: