It could have been Nationwide Tight Finish Day on Sunday, October 22, however tight finish Travis Kelce was all about his teammates.
“Woo! What a day for some soccer, child,” Kelce, 34, stated within the video, which the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs posted to Instagram on Wednesday, October 25. “Fireplace up, child. What a good looking day for some ball, huh? Let’s go on the market and do it for one another like we at all times do.”
The Chiefs “mic’d up” Kelce throughout the Sunday recreation once they performed the Los Angeles Chargers on their house turf at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri. All through the sporting occasion, the tight finish repeatedly made positive to assist his friends’ actions.
“Hell yeah boy, technique to make performs!” Kelce gushed after the Chiefs scored their first landing of the sport. “One by one!”
He additionally screamed, “Atta boy,” when teammate Rashee Rice caught a go. “Give me extra, canine,” Kelce added. “Extra! We’d like extra, let’s go!”
Sunday’s recreation additionally marked the return of Mecole Hardman, who was not too long ago traded again to the Chiefs from the New York Jets.
“Oh yeah, ‘Cole!” Kelce exclaimed as Hardman, 25, broke a sort out on the 40-yard line. “Come one, come on! That’s greatness. That’s what I’m talkin’ about boy.”
Kelce’s sportsmanship additionally prolonged to the Chargers athletes. “Good sort out,” Kelce quipped to one among his opponents.
The sport finally concluded within the Chiefs’ favor. “That’s the way you end off a f—king recreation proper there,” he famous after they gained by scoring one other landing. Addressing Hardman, Kelce added, “That’s the way you end it off. Comfortable as hell for you, brother.”
Kelce continued: “We simply maintain turning that up on their ass!”
Kelce and the Chiefs — who’re seven weeks into the 2023-2024 NFL season — had a VIP cheering part to look at them clinch the victory. Taylor Swift, Kelce’s new love curiosity, stepped out on the recreation and sat in a non-public field with Patrick Mahomes’ spouse, Brittany Mahomes, and the remainder of the Mahomes household, together with Patrick’s mother Randi and brother Jackson. The Grammy winner, 33, even wore a friendship bracelet with Kelce’s #87 jersey quantity on it.
In the course of the published, the NFL even poked enjoyable at Kelce’s relationship with Swift whereas detailing his stats. CBS created a graphic of his efficiency when Swift attended the sport compared to when he’s “left to his personal gadgets,” which references the lyrics in her music “Anti-Hero.”
“How may I not concentrate on this?” Travis instructed his brother, Jason Kelce, with fun throughout the Wednesday episode of their “New Heights” podcast. “‘Left to his personal gadgets.’ Nicely put.”
Travis and Swift have been linked since September with a supply telling Us Weekly earlier the month that their associates suppose they’re already “in love.”
On the finish of Sunday’s recreation, Travis and Swift left hand-in-hand earlier than heading to a non-public dinner date and a postgame celebration. On the social gathering, Swift gave Travis a kiss on the cheek in an Instagram photograph shared by Hardman’s girlfriend.