Taylor Swift praised for her NFL knowledge by Travis Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs teammate Patrick Mahomes – as he opens up on his friendship with the singer: ‘It’s like she’s trying to become a coach!’
Patrick Mahomes has opened up about his blossoming friendship with Taylor Swift after the singer started dating his Kansas City Chiefs teammate Travis Kelce last year.
‘I’ve met a lot of famous people in my life now – Taylor is probably the most down to earth person to have been on that stage for so long’ Mahomes told TIME following its publication, the Super Bowl winner was named one of the most influential people of 2024.
‘She’s never not working. Even when she takes her time off, she is working on something. Record a video clip, sing a song or write a song. You can tell by the way she talks.
“Even when she’s talking about football, when she’s learning it, you see her business mind putting it together. It’s almost like she’s trying to become a coach. “Why can’t you try this, this and this?” She asks the right questions.’
Mahomes also admitted that Swift’s support of the Chiefs meant that the team “went from a national team that was kind of global to a completely global, global team — that came from Taylor’s fan base.”
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has opened up about his friendship with Taylor Swift
Swift started dating Travis Kelce last year and they went public last September
Swift said in her own interview with TIME last year how much she had enjoyed watching football since meeting Kelce.
“Football is great, as it turns out,” she said. “I’ve been missing something all my life.”
Swift went to 13 Chiefs games last season and raced back from four Eras Tour dates in Tokyo to watch Kelce and Mahomes win the Super Bowl in Las Vegas in February.
She has also developed a close friendship with Brittany Mahomes, Patrick’s wife, since going public with Kelce in September.
That win in Vegas was the third for Mahomes, who at age 27 already has the best chance to top Tom Brady’s seven Super Bowl wins.
But whether he reaches that total or not, Mahomes has a chance to accomplish something Brady never could next season as he leads the Chiefs to a historic third straight Super Bowl victory.
The Chiefs defeated the Philadelphia Eagles – and Kelce’s brother Jason – in the 2023 game before emerging victorious against the San Francisco 49ers this year.