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Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce requested that Arrowhead Stadium not play songs by his now-fiancée Taylor Swift early in their relationship, team President Mark Donovan revealed during an appearance on Up & Adams Monday (December 1).
“Travis, to his credit, is all about the team, and he’s all about the guys, and he’s all about being part of the team and not being separate,” Donovan told host Kay Adams. “He said that (playing her songs), ‘That separates me. When we are playing a game, when we are in the stadium, it’s about us and I want it to be about us.'”
“We never showed Taylor on our big boards in our stadium, never. It was respectful. We’re not taking advantage of this relationship,” he added. “I joked with him early on in the first year (of their relationship), we never played a Taylor Swift song in the stadium when she is in the building.”
Kelce and Swift's relationship has been heavily publicized since the three-time Super Bowl champion famously revealed that he attempted to give the singer a friendship bracelet with his phone number when he attended her concert at Arrowhead Stadium prior to their relationship in 2023. Swift later said that Kelce "very adorably put me on blast" when he acknowledged the situation on his podcast, which she said "was metal as hell" while being featured as Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year' in December 2023.
Swift and Kelce announced their engagement in a joint Instagram post in August, which is the eighth-most-liked post ever shared on the social media app.