The Kansas City Chiefs star gets animated in a promo for the team's upcoming Christmas Day game.
Taylor Swift is getting the Easter Egg treatment in a new promo for Travis Kelce's upcoming Christmas Day game. In a cartoon featuring several Kansas City Chiefs and Las Vegas Raiders players, No. 87 appears to be channeling his inner Swiftie.
In the illustration, Travis appears wide-eyed as he sits on a floor stringing beads into a classic Swift-inspired friendship bracelet. Meanwhile, he's surrounded by other pro football stars and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles running and tackling each other around a Christmas tree. The image is teasing CBS Sports and Nickelodeon's Nickmas game, which will serve as a kid-friendly broadcast of the football matchup complete with TMNT guest appearances and virtual slime graphics.
The Chiefs will host the Raiders at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, on Monday, Dec. 25 at 1 p.m. ET.
The pic serves as a reference not only to Travis' relationship with the pop star, but to the time he famously tried to give her his phone number on a friendship bracelet during her Eras Tour stop in Kansas City over the summer.
"I was disappointed that she doesn't talk before or after her shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs that she sings," Travis said during a July episode of his New Heights podcast, "so I was a little butthurt I didn't get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her."
He explained to his brother and co-host, Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, the significance of the bracelets.
"If you're up on Taylor Swift concerts, there are friendship bracelets," Travis shared. "I received a bunch of them being there, but I wanted to give Taylor Swift one with my number on it."
That didn't exactly work out, as Travis noted, "She doesn't meet anybody, or at least she didn't want to meet me, so I took it personal."
Later, in a recent interview for Time magazine's 2023 Person of the Year profile, Taylor revealed that she thought Travis' callout was "metal as hell" and that she reached out to him shortly after.
"We started hanging out right after that. So we actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I'm grateful for, because we got to get to know each other."
Swift and Kelce went public in September, when the former stepped out to attend her beau's Kansas City Chiefs game against the Chicago Bears. The songstress' surprise appearance made headlines, as she joined Kelce's mother, Donna Kelce, in a private suite to cheer for the tight end in her signature, highly-animated fashion.
"By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple. I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game? We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date," she continued.
"When you say a relationship is public, that means I'm going to see him do what he loves, we're showing up for each other, other people are there and we don't care," she declared. "The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you're seeing someone. And we're just proud of each other."
In his own cover story for WSJ. Magazine, Travis shared that Taylor's family members may have had a hand in getting them together.
"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," Travis said, admitting that he only learned of that story later, after he was shocked to discover a notification from Taylor on his phone.
The matchmakers, apparently, were Taylor's young cousins who are fans of the two-time Super Bowl champion.
"She'll probably hate me for saying this, but," Travis spilled, "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."
Travis recently told People that he expects his Christmas Day game to "be a fun one," and confirmed that his family will delay their personal holiday plans until later since his brother, Jason, will also be playing. The Philadelphia Eagles take on the New York Giants on Dec. 25 at 4:30 p.m. ET.
No word on whether Taylor will be in the stands to cheer for her beau on Monday, but she has attended seven of his games so far since September. Just last weekend, Taylor was joined by her dad, Scott Swift, in a private suite as the Chiefs scored a victory over the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
On his podcast this week, Travis sweetly admitted to getting star-struck with his "amazing" girlfriend in the crowd, saying, "I was trying to keep it cool. I was like, 'Don't show your cards. Don't show your cards.'"
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