Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift: A timeline of football, music and romance

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Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s whirlwind romance has taken the sports and entertainment worlds by storm, and a lot has happened over the past year.

The Kansas City Chiefs’ superstar tight end got a chance to shoot his shot last summer — and the rest is history.

[Related: Why has Chiefs superstar Travis Kelce been so quiet lately?]

Since Swift attended her first Chiefs game in September 2023, the franchise has seen a 30% increase in fans (according to the Chiefs), and both the NFL’s and Kansas City’s brand value has skyrocketed by more than $330 million, according to Apex Marketing. 

“They make a fantastic couple,” Chiefs CEO Clark Hunt recently said in a statement, adding that “the growth in our female fan base has been amazing over the last year.”

With Kelce notably keeping a low-profile through training camp and the NFL’s preseason, we started thinking about how this all came to be. So we rounded up a timeline surrounding Kelce and Swift’s relationship, from the very first rumblings of a rumored courtship to game-day sightings through present day.

Let’s get to it.

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July 2023

Kelce was spotted attending Swift’s concert on July 8 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, where he watched the show from a private box and was seen meeting with fans and trading friendship bracelets before and during the performance. 

“If you’re up [to speed] on Taylor Swift concerts, there are friendship bracelets, and I received a bunch of them being there, but I wanted to give Taylor Swift one with my [phone] number on it,” he said during a July 26 episode of his “New Heights” podcast. Kelce wasn’t able to meet Swift at her show, but the pair reportedly connected shortly after.

September 2023

Roughly two months after Kelce attended Swift’s show, reports emerged that the pair were hanging out, but the 34-year-old tight end didn’t confirm anything until a podcast appearance on Sept. 21 when he mentioned he had “thrown the ball in her court” and invited the 14-time Grammy Award winner to…

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