Taylor Swift recalls going bonkers when the Chiefs drafted Xavier Worthy
Taylor Swift took a subtle dig at people who once doubted her relationship with Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce was real.
It was easy to miss during her nearly two-hour chat Wednesday night on the New Heights podcast, but Swift mentioned the haters while talking about her first visit to GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium as a Chiefs fan.
“I had a hat on and I had a mask on and I’m walking in just in the front we’re walking in with thousands of people in Arrowhead, and nobody noticed,” she recalled. “There were rumors that we had been seeing each other. But I think people were like, ‘What would they talk about?’”
Ah, nice zinger.
Judging by their cute banter during the New Heights podcast, which crashed at one point as more than 1.3 million people were watching, Kelce and Swift have plenty in common.
But Swift admitted she wasn’t a big football fan.
“I thought it was like Jared Goff is here and Josh Allen’s here (on the field together), then they blow a whistle and they go at each other,” she noted.
Swift added: “I didn’t know what a first down was. I didn’t know what the chains were. I didn’t know what a tight end was.”
That’s changed big-time, and Kelce was touched at how Swift has embraced the sport he plays.
“I am forever thankful for you for diving into the football world wholehearted,” he said.
Swift said she’s become obsessed with football and recounted a story from the 2024 NFL Draft when the Chiefs picked wide receiver Xavier Worthy.
“Oh my God, I fell in love with it. I became obsessed with it,” she said. “I became like a person who was running through the halls of my house screaming, ‘We drafted Xavier Worthy!’ And my friends are like, ‘Who body snatched you? What do you mean we drafted Xavier Worthy?’”
In fact, Kelce said he learned about the Chiefs drafting Worthy from Swift.
“We’re talking about cover-2, cover-4, cover-zero, man coverage. We’re learning. I’m continuing to learn. I’m not ready to be an analyst now, but give me 16 months,” Swift quipped.
This story was originally published August 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM with the headline "Taylor Swift recalls going bonkers when the Chiefs drafted Xavier Worthy."
