Travis Kelce is aware that he’s a very lucky man. While chatting with guest Lil Dicky on the Wednesday (April 10) episode of his and older brother Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast, the three-time Super Bowl champion admitted that he’s still perplexed by how successfully he wooed Taylor Swift last year, revealing that the pop star wasn’t even a football fan before he came into the picture.
The topic of Swift first came up when the Dave star remarked that Travis and the “Anti-Hero” singer’s romance is “the best thing ever,” adding, “I think there’s just something that makes everyone feel like the world is like high school, where your most popular pop star beloved musician somehow met your most popular beloved athlete and they actually fell in love and it’s just real.”
“I appreciate it, man,” the tight end responded. “I don’t know how I did it because she wasn’t into sports, so I don’t know how the f–k I did it.”
When Lil Dicky started to remind Travis that he first caught Swift’s eye by mentioning her on a 2023 episode of New Heights — on which the athlete revealed he’d tried and failed to slip the musician a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it at one of her Kansas City Eras Tour shows — the Ohio native hilariously cut the rapper-comedian off.
“Well you did because you called her out on…,” Lil Dicky began, to which Travis asserted, laughing, “No, 100%, I know exactly how I did it.”
Though she may not have paid much attention to the NFL before her romance with No. 87, Swift is definitely tuned in now. The 14-time Grammy winner was present at many of Travis’ Kansas City Chiefs games throughout the 2023-24 season, leading up to her attendance at this year’s Super Bowl, where, after the Chiefs took home their second victory in a row, she kissed her beau on the field.
“This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,” Swift recalled in her December Time cover story. “We started hanging out right after that. By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple.”
Since the football season wrapped in February, Travis has been joining Swift on various Eras stops across the world. The trek is currently on pause as the “Karma” artist gears up to release her new album The Tortured Poets Department on April 19.
Watch the new episode of New Heights above.
