Taylor Swift Attends Kansas City Chiefs Game, Causing Swifties To Jump Into NFL Discourse

Taylor Swift was not-so-quietly hanging out at the Kansas City Chiefs game yesterday as she loudly cheered on her maybe-beau Travis Kelce — who made seven catches and scored a touchdown in the Chiefs' 41-10 drubbing of the Chicago Bears.

TRAVIS KELCE.📺: #CHIvsKC on FOX📱: Stream on #NFLPlus https://t.co/UQdQ05gT8f pic.twitter.com/4g5GmAdot5

— NFL (@NFL) September 24, 2023

Swift and Kelce were linked via a report from The Messenger last week that used the much-memed euphemism "quietly hanging out" to describe the pair's potentially budding romantic relationship.

According to reports, Kelce invited Swift to see him play after he saw her in concert. Notably, Swift was attending the game next to Travis Kelce's mom.

Swift's attendance at Kelce's game doesn't confirm the pair are an item, but it certainly gave people a lot to talk about.

On the conspiratorial side, some have suggested Swift and Kelce are intentionally generating headlines as a PR stunt to drive interest in a documentary focused on Travis and his brother Jason, who plays for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Meanwhile, to both the bemusement and irritation of fans more into football than Taylor Swift, Swift stans (Swifties) have waded into NFL fandom and are apparently trying to catch up on learning the game and the discourse surrounding it in real-time.

As jokes about Swifties' tendency for passionate-to-the-point of overzealous discourse tackling NFL-based controversies abound, one popular joke topic was how Swifties would think about the Kansas City Chiefs' team name.

The Chiefs are one of several major sports teams with a Native American-inspired team name, a point of outrage among sports fans that led to the renaming of the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians to the "Commanders" and "Guardians," respectively.

That topic was indeed brought up among Swifties. A popular exchange highlighted on Twitter shows one Swiftie saying not to support the Chiefs because "the name and logo appropriate indigenous culture" while another says the Chiefs "got their name from a person, not Native American culture."

The transposition of a long-running sports debate into Swiftie vernacular amused sports fans, many of whom looked forward to the day Swifties learned of classic NFL controversies, like the "Tuck Rule game" and the pass interference call that sealed last year's Super Bowl — for the Chiefs.