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Chiefs TE Travis Kelce’s new friendship spawns fun memes of Taylor Swift on Madden cover

Megastar Taylor Swift and Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce are photographed before and during the Chiefs’ ”Sunday Night Football” game vs. the New York Jets.
Megastar Taylor Swift and Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce are photographed before and during the Chiefs’ ”Sunday Night Football” game vs. the New York Jets. USA TODAY NETWORK

While Taylor Swift didn’t attend Sunday’s Chiefs game against Vikings, she apparently made a trip to Kansas City to hang out with tight end Travis Kelce on Friday.

That’s according to US Weekly, one of the many celebrity magazines and websites that suddenly have a greater interest in the Chiefs than, say, after their Super Bowl LVII victory.

It’s anyone’s guess at this point whether Swift, the superstar singer, will return to Arrowhead Stadium for Thursday night’s Chiefs-Broncos game. But Amazon Prime, which will broadcast the game, is ready.

We’re preparing just like everybody else did. There’s a lot of conversation around it for sure,” Danielle Carney, head of NFL ads at Amazon, told Adweek. “I am a Swiftie, and I’m an NFL fan, so for me it’s like the best of both worlds melding together.”

Yes, the fusion of the NFL and Swift has been something to behold the last few weeks. Kelce and Swift have been a subject for late-night TV shows, entertainment sites, the NFL’s social media team and even former presidents.

One fun thing to come out of all of this are memes. Specifically, ones that show Swift on the cover of the Madden NFL video game. These are great.

Even if you’re a football fan who is sick of the Kelce/Swift talk, you can laugh about those memes, right?

This story was originally published October 11, 2023 at 10:58 AM.

Pete Grathoff
The Kansas City Star
From covering the World Series to the World Cup, Pete Grathoff has done a little bit of everything since joining The Kansas City Star in 1997.
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