Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift have captured the attention of the nation — from the music world to the NFL — with their budding romance. The two are still early in their relationship, but fans everywhere are already calling them "Endgame" (to reference one of Swift's own songs). While the country is unashamedly infatuated with this new couple, Kelce and Swift have shared few details about how they actually got together. In a new interview with The Wall Street Journal Magazine, however, Kelce revealed that a third party helped orchestrate their meeting.
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Prior to this new information, fans knew a few things about Kelce and Swift's relationship timeline. He attended a concert of Swift's on The Eras Tour in Kansas City in July. He brought with him a friendship bracelet with his number on it, which he failed to give Swift during or after the show. In fact, he didn't even get the chance to talk to the superstar when he was there. So, how did the two eventually meet and become a couple? Enter this mysterious "Cupid."
"There were definitely people she knew that knew who I was, in her corner [who said]: Yo! Did you know he was coming? I had somebody playing Cupid," Kelce told WSJ of the night of the concert.
He reveals that Swift then reached out to him and explained the situation.
"She told me exactly what was going on and how I got lucky enough to get her to reach out," he said.
Kelce adds there were other factors at play behind the scenes at her concert, which potentially put him in her mind.
"She'll probably hate me for saying this, but...when she came to Arrowhead, they gave her the big locker room as a dressing room, and her little cousins were taking pictures...in front of my locker," he adds.
Kelce reveals the two began talking before meeting for the first time in New York City. It's unclear when or where this first meeting occurred, but it surely happened before Swift attended her first Chiefs game on Sept. 24, which is when the world found out about the couple.
Kelce's new timeline confirms that the football player was playing around with fans a bit when he invited Swift to his game. On an episode of the The Pat McAfee Show, he made it sound like he sent a blind invitation to Swift before they met. However, it's clear the two established a foundation for a relationship before she made her Chiefs game debut.
Elsewhere in the interview, Kelce spoke of the intense "aura" that surrounds Swift at all times — namely, the publicity and attention she receives from the media.
"I've never dealt with it," Kelce said. "But at the same time, I'm not running away from any of it.... The scrutiny she gets, how much she has a magnifying glass on her, every single day, paparazzi outside her house, outside every restaurant she goes to, after every flight she gets off, and she's just living, enjoying life. When she acts like that I better not be the one acting all strange."
He also mentioned that he and the singer share similar values in life, especially when it comes to family.
"Everybody knows I'm a family guy," he said. "Her team is her family. Her family does a lot of stuff in terms of the tour, the marketing, being around, so I think she has a lot of those values as well, which is right up my alley."
These two surely have a long while before making any kind of lifetime commitment, but based on Kelce's comments, fans may be right about him being "Endgame" after all.
