Play-by-play of power-couple-of-the-moment Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.

Taylor Swift is one of this generation’s most beloved artists. Swift has 11 No. 1 Hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Her concert film The Eras Tour is the highest grossing concert film of all time, earning $98.2 million in its opening weekend. Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in the United States, hired a full time Taylor Swift reporter. Arguably, she’s the top trending topic in pop culture right now. She’s also making waves in sports headlines.

Travis Kelce, a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs (a National Football League team), is Swift’s current boyfriend. Kelce is no stranger to the public spotlight when it comes to dating; he had a dating show in 2016, titled Catching Kelce. Kelce was spotted at Swift’s concert in Kansas City on July 8th. 

“I was disappointed that she doesn’t talk before or after her shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs she sings,” Kelce said on his podcast New Heights in July. “If you’re up on Taylor Swift concerts, there are friendship bracelets and I had received a bunch of them, but I wanted to give Taylor Swift [one] with my number on it.”

After the podcast episode dropped, Swift and Kelce began to be linked together. Kelce, himself, addressed these rumors on an episode of The Pat McAfee Show. “I threw the ball in her court and, you know, I told her, ‘I’ve seen you rock the stage at Arrowhead, you might have to come see me rock the stage at Arrowhead and see which one’s a little more lit,’” Kelce said on McAfee’s podcast.

“By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple,” Swift said during an interview with Time.

On September 24, Swift showed up to Arrowhead Stadium to see Kelce “rock the stage”. After the game, Swift and Kelce were spotted in Kelce’s getaway car. Swift has attended four more Chiefs games since then. However, attending games became a bit tougher in November, due to Swift’s tour stint in South America. On the second night of her stay in Buenos Aires, Swift changed the lyrics of her song “Karma” from “karma is the guy on the screen coming straight home to me” to “karma is the guy on the Chiefs coming straight home to me.” After the show, Swift ran into Kelce’s arms and kissed him, which subsequently broke the internet.

There’s a lot of little things that are missing about their romance, but we now know the reaction as to what happens when a sports star and pop star date. And, at the end of the day, we shouldn’t care about who she dates, because that’s her private life, and we don’t need to know every little detail about her, but, at the same time, it’s fun to keep up with something that’s not depressing all the time.

Article by Elliott Hunt with Jocelyn Hansen