Taylor says to Travis Kelce, This is how it all started don’t be that confused

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce: A Comprehensive Dating Timeline
It all started with a friendship bracelet.

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In her life, Taylor Swift has done things way greater than dating the boy on the football team, but that won’t stop people from obsessing over her romance with Travis Kelce.

It all started when the 34-year-old NFL player revealed that he attempted to give the 34-year-old pop star his number via friendship bracelet during a stop on the Eras Tour. “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,” Kelce said during a July episode of his New Heights podcast, which he cohosts with his brother, Jason Kelce. “So I was a little butt-hurt I didn’t get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her.”

He added, “She doesn’t meet anybody, or at least she didn’t want to meet me, so I took it personally.” Well, according to the celebrity rumor mill, Taylor Swift wasn’t averse to meeting Travis Kelce after all. She accepted his offer to attend a Kansas City Chiefs game on September 24, and things have moved fairly quickly from there.

The power couple has now given us many sweet moments—from date nights in NYC to Kelce’s gushing about Swift on his podcast—and showed how much they support each other’s careers (Swift is now a staple at Chiefs games, while Kelce goes to as many Eras Tour shows as he can).

Here is a complete timeline of their relationship, most recent developments first.

February 2024: Kelce’s coaches on the Chiefs have started spilling the tea in the early days of Traylor. On The Sports Shop With Reese and K-Mac podcast, Kansas City coach Dave Merritt said that Swift had been quietly coming to support her man before she was on the Jumbotron at every NFL game she attended. “When she started to come around, it was privately,” Merritt said, per Us Weekly. “She was coming into the stadiums without people really knowing until the camera put a big spotlight on it.”

January 30, 2024: You don’t need to be a master lip reader to hear Kelce tell Swift, “I love you” after his playoffs win. In videos posted to social media, as Kelce approaches Swift on the field, you can hear him say, “Tay, I’m gonna go enjoy with the guys. Love you,” before going in for the hug.

At the Chiefs vs. Ravens playoff game that sent the Chiefs to the Super Bowl, Swift was spotted wearing a few pieces of especially meaningful jewelry. Per Page Six, Swift was wearing a ring with a miniature version of Kelce’s jersey on it, given to her by Donna Kelce (perhaps the ultimate signal that she’s gained Mama Kelce’s approval). Even more adorable, however, was the diamond friendship bracelet Swift wore, which was a gift from her boyfriend himself. The tennis bracelet featured three letter charms reading “TNT” and, according to the brand, Kelce also purchased a matching version for himself.

Kelce wasn’t the first “guy on the Chiefs” in Swift’s life. Kelce’s coach, Andy Reid, said on the Let’s Go! with Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald, and Jim Gary podcast that he’d actually met Swift way back in the day, through her dad. “I knew her before, from Philadelphia. Her dad [Scott Swift] played at [University of] Delaware and was a big football fan and a good guy. So I had met him there and her,” Reid said, per People, joking that the news didn’t sit too well with Travis. “So that was the last thing Trav wanted to hear, that I knew her before him. She told him, ‘I know your coach.’ And he went, ‘Oh, God, come on!’”