Travis Kelce recalled the moment he started to fall for his superstar girlfriend, Taylor Swift.
The Kansas City Chiefs tight finish admired Swift for being “very self-aware” throughout an look on the June 24 episode of the “Bussin’ With The Boys” podcast.
“I think that’s why I really started to really fall for her, was how genuine she is around just like friends, family,” he defined.
“It can get crazy for somebody with that much attention, and she just keeps it so chill and so cool,” he added.
Kelce recalled the first game Swift attended final NFL season on Sept. 24, when the Chiefs gained 41-10 in opposition to the Chicago Bears.
“I was like, ‘OK, so I could probably set you up with everything,’ and she just walked right through the front door. There’s no going down talking to security,” Kelce mentioned. “She’s just like, ‘I just want to be around the family and friends and experience this with everybody.'”
He added the singer acquired main factors with him for that.
“I was like damn, she’s just f—— in the madness, man. She wants to be a part of it. She wants to support me and do things like that. … Man, she really won me over with that,” he continued.
Kelce added that the pair tried to preserve their relationship non-public.
“Nobody knew what was going on, really all over the place,” he mentioned. “We kind of kept it between us as much as we could, but once she came to a game, obviously, it was all poppin’ from there.”
The pair have had a whirlwind romance with large life moments they’ve shared collectively, together with a Super Bowl win for Kelce in February and multiple successful international shows on Swift’s “Eras Tour.”
Kelce described attempting to preserve their relationship between them, but additionally wanting to be happy with his girlfriend.
“You want to keep things private, but at the same time, I’m not here to hide anything,” he mentioned. “That’s my girl.”
“That’s my lady,” he added. “It’s like, I’m proud of that. I’m not sitting here trying to juggle like, ‘How can I keep this under wraps?’ You just don’t want to let everybody into your personal life and be able to comment on it, knowing that everything she does is getting a headline,” he mentioned.
Kelce most just lately joined Swift onstage for his own “Eras Tour” debut in London on June 23, when he sported a black-and-white go well with and prime hat and carried her throughout his shock look.
“Dude, the concerts are electric,” Kelce mentioned of Swift’s reveals. “They’re electrical, and she or he simply switched it up. She simply got here out with the new album, so she form of incorporated that into the new show.”
“She’s having enjoyable up there — I can enjoy seeing her in her element, killing it onstage, and I like the present, man,” he added. “She’s got bangers.”
Kelce then gave his rating of his prime three favourite songs. The NFL star mentioned he first started listening to Swift’s music when her album “1989” got here out in 2014.
“I knew who she was before that. We were the same age, so through high school and everything, I knew who Taylor was as she was getting her career started,” he mentioned. “But I think ‘1989’ was where it really started.”
Kelce then declared “Blank Space” as his top pick as a result of it was “the first one.”
“I’ll go No. 2 — ‘Cruel Summer.’ ‘Cruel Summer’ is one of the ones she opens with at her show,” he mentioned. “When she comes out and it’s just f—— electric in the stadium, and then she goes into an absolute banger like that. I was fired up when that happened at the first show I was ever at.”
Kelce’s third decide was “So High School.”
“I think ‘So High School,’ it’s got a little bit of a sentimental meaning,” he mentioned, earlier than quoting a few of the lyrics that are rumored to be about him. “You know what I’m saying? ‘You know how to ball/ I know Aristotle,’ man.”