Chiefs coach Andy Reid hilariously brags about meeting Taylor Swift before Travis Kelce
Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid has hilariously bragged about meeting Taylor Swift before her boyfriend, Travis Kelce.
The 65-year-old football coach spoke candidly about the tight endâs relationship with the Grammy-Award winner during an episode of the Letâs Go! with Tom Brady, Larry Fitgerald, and Jim Gray podcast, shared on 30 January. His comments came days after Swift watched the Chiefs big win at the AFC Championship game, which advanced the team to the 2024 Super Bowl.
While addressing how much attention the Chiefs have recently received amid Kelceâs relationship with the singer, Reid also poked fun at how he actually met Swift, whoâs from Pennsylvania, long before she met her boyfriend.
âListen, sheâs been great,â he said. âI knew her before, from Philadelphia. Her dad [Scott Swift] played at [University of] Delaware and was a big football fan and good guy. So I had met him there and her.â
Reid, who was the coach for the Philadelphia Eagles from1999 through 2012, went on to claim that when Swift met Kelce, she mentioned to him that she knew his coach.
âAnd so, that was the last thing Trav wanted to hear, that I knew her before him,â Reid continued. âShe told him: âI know your coach.â And he went: âOh, come on!ââ
The football coach went on to praise Kelceâs relationship with Swift, noting that despite the heavy attention towards the atheleteâs love life, heâs still focused on the game.
âSheâs a good girl. And Iâm happy for Trav,â Reid said. âAnd there has been no distraction that way, at all. And Travâs handled it right, sheâs handled it right and we just move forward. So it hasnât been a problem at all.â
This isnât the first time that Reid has acknowledged his connection to Swift, whoâs been dating Kelce since last year. During a post-game press conference September 2023, he claimed he set the play for the coupleâs romance, saying: âYou know what, Iâve met her before. I set them up.â
Kelce and Swift first met last summer, after the NFL star revealed that he tried and failed to give the singer his number, while attending one of her Eras tour shows. Months later, Swift shared that she was the one who reached out to Kelce, after he made the comments about wanting to meet her in his podcast in July 2023.
âThis all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,â she told Time in December, as she was named the magazineâs Person of the Year. âWe started hanging out right after that. So we actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which Iâm grateful for, because we got to get to know each other.â
Swift also confirmed that when she famously first attended Kelceâs game at Arrowhead Stadium in September 2023, she was already dating him.
âBy the time I went to that first game, we were 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,â she said.
The âAnti-Heroâ singer acknowledged that, despite the ongoing speculation about her love life, sheâs focused on being there for her partner and supporting his career as sheâs continued to attend his Chiefs games. She also specified that she isnât trying to hide her relationship from the public eye.
âWhen you say a relationship is public, that means Iâm going to see him do what he loves, weâre showing up for each other, other people are there and we donât care,â she said. âThe opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that youâre seeing someone. And weâre just proud of each other.â
Earlier this week, the Kansas City Chiefs solidified their spot in Super Bowl LVIII when they beat the Baltimore Ravens 17-10. After the win, Swift ran down to the field to congratulate Kelce. They went on to share a sweet moment at the event, as a video posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, showed Kelce hugging and kissing his girlfriend, before saying: âWhatâs up sweetie?â The singer was in awe of what had happened during the game as she could be heard replying: âThat was insane. I canât believe it.â
Following the Chiefsâ win, Swifties are now speculating whether the âAll Too Wellâ singer will be making it to the Super Bowl, as the event falls one day after her Eras Tour concert in Tokyo, Japan. Although Swift hasnât confirmed if sheâs attending the big game, which will be held in Las Vegas on 11 February, there are reports claiming that she will be, and that sheâll get there with the help of time zones.
Kickoff for the big game will be at 6.30 pm ET and Tokyo is 17 hours ahead of Las Vegas. The assumption is that she will be leaving Japan at around midnight and then arriving in Las Vegas for the football game at around 8 to 10pm on Saturday, with a little less than 24 hours before the game starts.