Travis Kelce told Taylor Swift she’ll have to reckon with one part of his personality
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce sat down for an interview with the Wall Street Journal, and the story revealed that he has a peculiar ringtone on his phone.
It’s of the late actor Chris Farley screaming: “For the love of God!”
Kelce told the Wall Street Journal’s J.R. Moehringer that he loves movies with Farley, Adam Sandler and Will Farrell. Kelce loves to rewatch movies with those three “Saturday Night Live” alums, and he intends to share his silly side with his girlfriend, superstar singer Taylor Swift.
Moehringer wrote: “Kelce has warned Swift that she’s going to have to reckon with this part of his personality.”
“I told Taylor that I have that world, I’ve got to introduce it to her,” Kelce said in the story. “I let her know: This is my jam right here.”
How they met
Kelce shared insights on how he came to meet Swift after his very public failure to get his phone number to her at her concerts this summer at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.
As it turns out, people in Swift’s camp gave Kelce an assist.
“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 Moehringer.
Swift later contacted Kelce via a text message, setting in motion their romance.
“She told me exactly what was going on,” Kelce said, “and how I got lucky enough to get her to reach out.”
Kelce added: “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.”
Kelce said he and Swift began communicating and that helped before they met for the first time in late summer.
“When I met her in New York, we had already kind of been talking, so I knew we could have a nice dinner and, like, a conversation, and what goes from there will go from there,” Kelce said.
Kelce said he received advice from his family and close friends: Don’t mess this up.
That’s why Kelce wouldn’t share much with the media in those early days of his relationship with Swift.
“That was the biggest thing to me: make sure I don’t say anything that would push Taylor away,” Kelce said in the interview.
Swift is ‘hilarious’
In the Wall Street Journal interview, Kelce called Swift a “genius” and said she’s “hilarious,” so perhaps she’ll love those Sander/Ferrell movies, too.
One of Kelce’s friends told Moehringer about Swift’s silly side when she visited Kelce in Kansas City. They were hanging out around a firepit and the couple broke out into a duet of “Teenage Dirtbag” by Wheatus.
“There was some wine involved, for sure,” Kelce noted.
It’s that time with friends and loved ones that connects Kelce and Swift.
“Everybody knows I’m a family guy,” Kelce said in the story. “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.”
The couple seems happy and it shows.
Kelce’s mother, Donna, told Moehringer: “I can tell you this. He’s happier than I’ve seen him in a long time. ... God bless him, he shot for the stars!”
This story was originally published November 20, 2023 at 12:25 PM.
