Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
Football fans are destroying the NFL on social media for heavily featuring Taylor Swift in their official 2024 season hype video.

On Monday, the NFL X/Twitter account shared its hype video for the 2024 season that’s now only two days away. Taylor Swift, who’s in a highly-publicized relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, shows up five times in the 30-second video:

As noted by the ML Football X account, top NFL superstars Joe Burrow, CJ Stroud, Brock Purdy, Matthew Stafford, Jordan Love, Justin Jefferson, Myles Garrett and TJ Watt weren’t featured once in the hype video.

And fans wasted no time teeing off on the league for the frequent appearances of Taylor Swift in the video:

Swift and Kelce have been in a relationship for roughly a year. The legendary singer essentially confirmed their romance when she attended the Chiefs’ Week 3, 2023 home game against the Chicago Bears at Arrowhead Stadium.

 

Taylor Swift attended 13 Chiefs games during the 2023 season, including all four of their playoff games. The day before Super Bowl 58 in Las Vegas, she performed a concert in Tokyo and then rushed home to support Kansas City in the big game.

Kansas City defeated the San Francisco 49ers in overtime of Super Bowl 58 to complete the repeat, becoming the first team to achieve that feat since the 2003 and ’04 New England Patriots. The Chiefs will kick off their 2024 season on Thursday night against the Baltimore Ravens at Arrowhead Stadium.

NFL Cleverly Continues To Market Taylor Swift

Love or hate the NFL’s marketing of Taylor Swift all you want. The bottom line is that the world-famous singer has brought plenty more attention and following to the NFL since going public with her and Kelce’s relationship.

Chiefs games saw a giant increase in ratings after fans learned of the Swift-Kelce relationship. Ratings and money run everything in the NFL, and Swift has become a significant marketing resource for them.

VIDEO: Adam Sandler Dropped An Interesting Taylor Swift Story That Had Travis Kelce “Sweating”

Jason Kelce, Adam Sandler and Travis Kelce speaking on "New Heights".Jason Kelce, Adam Sandler and Travis Kelce (Photo via “New Heights” YouTube)
Kansas City Chiefs superstar tight end Travis Kelce has seen his circle of celebrity friends grow over the past year thanks to his relationship with Grammy Award-winning singer Taylor Swift.

One new person in Travis Kelce’s friendship circle? Beloved Hollywood actor and comedian Adam Sandler, who recently announced that the three-time Super Bowl champion will get a cameo in “Happy Gilmore 2”.

The highly-anticipated film is a sequel of Sandler’s 1996 hit comedy titled “Happy Gilmore”, a story about a former hockey player who uses his signature and powerful slap shot to become a professional golfer.

During Sandler’s appearance on the “New Heights” podcast co-hosted by Travis and older brother Jason Kelce, the “Big Daddy” star told the Chiefs superstar about his family’s admiration for Taylor Swift:

“Dude, she means so much to our house. The kids were little, and we were listening to Taylor Swift. It was one of the first times that [they] listened to every song on the record. When I was a kid, The Beatles you did that with, maybe Elton John — you knew every tune. Taylor, in our house, every tune, they knew every word…I do get nervous around Taylor Swift, because I don’t want to f–king blow it for my kids and say something stupid…

When you guys first started dating..was my family like, ‘Yes! Look how good they are together! He’s a gentleman! And she’s having so much fun with him!’ Any time Taylor’s laughing with you, my whole f–king family is high-fiving.”

“You got me sweating over here,” Kelce responded to Sandler.

 


Speculation about Travis Kelce seeing Taylor Swift began around this time last year. Their relationship was confirmed when the legendary singer attended the Chiefs’ Week 3 home game against the Chicago Bears at Arrowhead Stadium.

Swift attended most of Kansas City’s games in 2023, including all four of their playoff games. She performed a concert in Tokyo one day before Super Bowl 58 in Las Vegas, but got home in plenty of time to attend the big dance.

Travis and the Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers in overtime to win their second straight Super Bowl championship. With a third title in five years, Kansas City cemented itself as a dynasty.

Travis Kelce & Chiefs Kick Off 2024 NFL Season In Seven Days

In one week, Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs will begin their quest for a three-peat when they welcome reigning MVP Lamar Jackson and his Baltimore Ravens to Arrowhead Stadium in the NFL Kickoff Game on Sept. 5.

This will be a rematch of last year’s AFC Championship Game in Baltimore, which the Chiefs won 17-10 to spoil Jackson’s MVP season.