It’s more than a contract extension: Footballer Travis Kelce is staying in Kansas City. What does this mean for Taylor Swift and her love?
Travis Kelce (34) has extended his contract with the reigning Super Bowl winners Kansas City Chiefs for another two years. The NFL champion announced this. The new contract will bring the partner of music superstar Taylor Swift (34) almost $35 million in two years. This makes Kelce the highest-paid football player at his position of tight end. The news of the contract extension doesn’t just make Chiefs supporters happy. Taylor Swift’s fans, the so-called Swifties, are also raising their thumbs in response to the news on Instagram.
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The Chiefs’ Instagram channel not only shows Kelce with a pen in his hand and smiling over the contract. Kelce also immediately announced the extension of the historically valuable contract. It is not known who he spoke to. It’s clear who Swifties want on the other end of the line: “Tell me it’s Taylor,” says a female fan, saying what everyone is thinking. Another jokes, in reference to Swift’s newly released hit album “The Tortured Poets Department”: “Kelce calls his girlfriend and says, ‘You’re not the only one with a hit in April.'”
Confluence of fan streams
Since Swift and Kelce made their relationship public in 2023, two large streams of fans have converged: the huge number of Swifties worldwide have united with the millions of Chiefs supporters. What annoys some hardcore football fans is now accepted by the general public: football meets pop. More and more Swift fans are also interested in football and ensure additional income and attention for the Super Bowl winner.
The news that their number 87 will remain with the Chiefs for another two years also meets with widespread approval from Chiefs followers among the Swifties. For example, it says, “They don’t want him taking his Swifties anywhere else.” Another follower asks: “Does his new contract say that Miss Taylor Alison Swift has to attend all home games?” Or simply: “Go Taylor’s boyfriend!!!”
Where will Swift and Kelce settle?
Of course, Chiefs and Swift fans are thinking even further. What does the contract extension mean for America’s most famous couple? Both are 34 years old and in their prime. Swift’s latest album represents a kind of general reckoning with her exes, including her ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn (33), with whom she was together before Kelce from 2016 to 2023. How serious is she about Kelce? Are the two of them officially moving in together and settling down? “He (Kelce) needs to save up to buy Taylor a new house next to the Kennedys’,” one Instagram fan joked.
The fact is: With the contract, Kelce not only ties himself to the Chiefs for two more years. He also committed to training with the team in Kansas City, population 500,000, and playing half of its games at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. As much as he likes to accompany his sweetheart Taylor to her concerts around the world, after twelve years with the Chiefs, Kansas City in the middle of America remains Kelve’s center of life. Taylor Swift owns real estate from Los Angeles to London. But like Kelce, she is also known to be close to home. Today she still calls her first residence in Nashville home. Will she now find her second and permanent nest with Travis in Kansas?
Source: Stern
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