Travis Kelce recalled the moment he started to fall in love his superstar girlfriend, Taylor Swift.
The Kansas City Chiefs tight end admired Swift for being “very self-aware” during an appearance on Monday’s episode of Podcast “Bussin’ With The Boys”.
“I think that’s why I really started to fall in love with her, was how genuine she is, just like friends and family,” he explained.
“It can be crazy for someone with that much attention, and she just keeps it so cool and calm,” he added.
Kelce recalled the first game Swift attended last NFL season on September 24.
“I was like, ‘OK, so I could probably set everything up for you,’ and she just walked in the front door. There’s no way to talk to security,” Kelce said. “She says, ‘I just want to be around family and friends and experience this with everyone.’”
He added that the singer gained major points with him for this.
“I was like, damn, she’s just crazy, man. She wants to be part of it. She wants to support me and do things like that. …Man, she really won me over with that,” she continued.
Kelce added that the pair tried to keep their relationship private.
“Nobody knew what was going on, really everywhere,” he said. “We kind of kept it between us as long as we could, but when she came to a game, obviously it all started from there.”
The pair had a whirlwind romance with major life moments they shared together, including Kelce’s Super Bowl win in February and several successful international shows on Swift’s “Eras Tour.”
Kelce described trying to maintain their relationship, but also wanting to be proud of his girlfriend.
“You want to keep things private, but at the same time, I’m not here to hide anything,” he said. “That’s my girl.”
“That’s my lady,” he added. “It’s like, I’m proud of it. I’m not sitting here trying to juggle things like, ‘How can I keep this a secret?’ You just don’t want to let everyone into your personal life and be able to comment on it, knowing that everything she does is going to make headlines,” he said.
Kelce recently joined Swift on stage for her “Eras Tour” debut in London on Sunday, when he donned a black and white suit and top hat and carried her during her surprise appearance.
“Man, the shows are electric,” Kelce said of Swift’s shows. “They are electric, and she just turned it on. She just left with the new albumso she kind of incorporated this into the new show.”
“She’s having fun up there – I might like to see you in your element, killing it on stage, and I love the show, man,” he added. “She has bangers.”
Kelce then gave his ranking of his three favorite songs. The NFL star said she started listening to Swift’s music when his album “1989” came 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 when she was starting her career,” he said. “But I think ‘1989’ is where it really started.”
Kelce then stated “Blank Space” as your top choice because he was “the first”.
“I’m going for number 2 – ‘Cruel Summer’. ‘Cruel Summer’ is one of the ones she opens on her show,” he said. “When she comes out and it’s just electric in the stadium, and then she goes into an absolute banger like that. I was excited when that happened at the first show I attended.”
Kelce’s third choice was “So, high school.”
“I think ‘So High School’ has a bit of a sentimental meaning,” he said, before naming some of the the lyrics that say they are about him. “You know what I’m saying? ‘You know how to play ball / I know Aristotle,’ man.
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