Taylor Swift has made the Super Bowl in her rookie NFL season as Travis Kelce and the Chiefs bid to end a year like no other with glory – and if she makes it to Vegas, it’ll be her 13th Kansas City game – her lucky number!

When the Super Bowl is over and the 2023 NFL season is consigned to the history books, it is hard to conclude that Taylor Swift’s name won’t feature prominently in the story of the season.

On September 8, when the Kansas City Chiefs started their defense of their Super Bowl title with a loss to Detroit Lions, the very idea of Swift and her ‘squad’ rocking up week after week to Kansas City games would have been crazy.

Travis missed that Lions game injured but deep behind the scenes, the early days of a romance that would grip America and enrapture the rest of the world was already underway.

After watching Taylor perform at Arrowhead on July 8, the Chiefs star tried to meet her backstage and give her his number on a friendship bracelet, only to be denied. On July 26, he told Jason on the podcast: ‘She doesn’t talk before or after her shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs that she sings. So I was a little butthurt – she doesn’t meet anybody or at least she didn’t want to meet me.’

But it turns out she did.

Kelce was reached out to via intermediaries and on August 2 in an NFL Network interview, got very coy when reporters asked if there had been any contact between them.

At the end of August, they had met in New York and on September 24, when the Chiefs hosted Chicago Bears at Arrowhead, Swift took a seat in the Kelce suite next to his mom, Donna, to confirm what the rumors had been saying.

‘I threw the ball in her court. I told her, I’ve seen you rock a stage in Arrowhead and you might have to come see me rock the stage at Arrowhead,’ Kelce said that week, leading up to the game. ‘We’ll see what happens in the near future.’