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- Taylor Swift is celebrating the anniversary of her very first Kansas City Chiefs game<\/strong><\/li>\n
- The singer first cheered on her boyfriend Travis Kelce in the Chiefs’ victory over the Bears on Sept. 24, 2023 at Arrowhead Stadium<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Since then, the couple has enjoyed a whirlwind romance in the public eye<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/div>\nOne year ago today,\u00a0Taylor Swift<\/a>\u00a0attended the Kansas City Chiefs game against the Chicago Bears on Sept. 24, 2023, kicking off a whirlwind of speculation about her relationship with tight end\u00a0Travis Kelce<\/a>.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nWhen the 34-year-old singer was\u00a0first spotted at Arrowhead Stadium<\/a>, her romance with Kelce, also 34, was unconfirmed. At that point, the Chiefs star had\u00a0revealed that he tried to give Swift his phone number<\/a>\u00a0when he saw her in concert on July 8, but ended up “disappointed that she doesn’t talk before or after her shows.”<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nAs Kelce played coy while rumors continued to swirl that he and Swift had spent time together, his brother\u00a0Jason said he “cannot comment”<\/a>\u00a0on the speculation on Sept. 14, claiming, “I don’t really know what’s going on there,” about his brother’s love life.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nThree days before Swift’s first game, Kelce addressed the Swift rumors\u00a0during an interview<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0The Pat McAfee Show,\u00a0<\/em>telling the host that he\u00a0\u201cthrew the ball in [Swift\u2019s] court<\/a>\u201d by inviting her to see him play at Arrowhead Stadium, where she previously performed during her Eras Tour.<\/p>\n
\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTo the surprise of most fans who assumed Swift would turn down the offer to travel to Kansas City, the “Fortnight” singer shocked NFL viewers and Swifties by\u00a0appearing at the game, and cheering as Kelce scored a touchdown<\/a>\u00a0in his family suite\u00a0alongside his mother Donna<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>Donna Kelce and Taylor Swift.<\/span>Cooper Neill\/Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n After the game \u2014 in which the Chiefs squashed the Bears 41-10 \u2014 Swift and Kelce\u00a0were seen walking out together<\/a>\u00a0before they left the stadium in\u00a0his 1970 Chevelle 408 Stroker convertible<\/a>.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nThe couple kept their relationship status vague as Swift continued to support Kelce at Chiefs games. “Shout out to Taylor for pulling up. That was pretty ballsy,”\u00a0Kelce said on an episode<\/a>\u00a0of his podcast on Sept. 27, 2023.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nSwift returned to cheer on the Chiefs a week later on Oct. 1, bringing along celeb friends like\u00a0Blake Lively<\/a>,\u00a0Ryan Reynolds<\/a>,\u00a0Hugh Jackman<\/a>,\u00a0Sabrina Carptenter<\/a>, Sophie Turner and\u00a0Antoni Porowski<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0MetLife Stadium<\/a>\u00a0for Kansas City’s road game against the New York Jets.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>Taylor Swift, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds at Chiefs game.<\/span>Jim McIsaac\/Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The NFL had begun participating in the fan frenzy around their relationship before the Jets matchup, using Swift’s song “Welcome to New York” in a\u00a0Swift-themed\u00a0ad<\/a>\u00a0for the matchup.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nSwift’s commitment to supporting Kelce ramped up from there. The day after attending her\u00a0Eras Tour film<\/a>\u00a0premiere in Los Angeles, she\u00a0flew out to Kansas City<\/a>\u00a0to watch\u00a0him play for the third-straight week<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\nTwo days later, on Oct. 14, the couple\u00a0made surprise appearances on<\/a>\u00a0Saturday Night Live\u00a0<\/em>during a trip to New York City, before leaving no doubt about their relationship status. After the show, Swift and Kelce had dinner at the Waverly Inn restaurant and\u00a0were seen holding hands<\/a>\u00a0as they left the restaurant.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have dinner at Waverly Inn.<\/span>Gotham\/GC Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Swift continued attending Chiefs games \u2014 13 in total, ending in their Super Bowl LVIII victory \u2014 throughout the season. And Kelce returned the favor when he could. On Nov. 11, during the Chiefs’ bye week, Kelce was spotted in the VIP section of Swift’s show in Buenos Aires, sitting\u00a0with the singer’s dad<\/a>\u00a0Scott.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nDuring the show, Swift gave Kelce a shoutout as\u00a0she changed the lyrics of her final song “Karma”<\/a>\u00a0to, \u201cKarma is the guy on the Chiefs coming straight home to me,\u201d causing Kelce to flash a big grin.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nThe next month, Swiftpublicly discussed her relationship with Kelce for the first time during her interview as\u00a0Time<\/em>‘s 2023 Person of the Year<\/a>, revealing that it “all started when\u00a0Travis very adorably put me on blast<\/a>\u00a0on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
She also clarified that when she spotted at one of Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs games for the first time, in September they were already a couple. “I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game? We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date,” Swift added.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nAnd in her acceptance speech at the\u00a02024 MTV Video Music Awards<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month, Swift\u00a0thanked Kelce for his support<\/a>\u00a0of her music, marking the first time she has publicly said his name.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething that I\u2019ll always remember is that when I would finish a take and I\u2019d say \u2018Cut,\u2019 and we\u2019d be done with that take, I would always just hear someone like, cheering, and like, \u2018Woo!\u2019 Like from across the studio where we were shooting it and that one person was my boyfriend Travis,” Swift said while accepting her award\u00a0for video of the year<\/a>.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n\u201cEverything this man touches turns to happiness and fun and magic so I want to thank him for adding that to our shoot, because I\u2019ll always remember that,\u201d she added of Kelce.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nThis season, Swift attended the Chiefs’ first two home games at Arrowhead Stadium, but chose not to travel to Atlanta for their week three matchup in Atlanta. In total, the singer has now supported her boyfriend at 15 games since their relationship began, with more surely to come.<\/p>\n
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- The singer first cheered on her boyfriend Travis Kelce in the Chiefs’ victory over the Bears on Sept. 24, 2023 at Arrowhead Stadium<\/strong><\/li>\n