While Taylor Swift watches her boyfriend Travis Kelce play for the Kansas City Chiefs from the bleachers, she has already started drawing up plays for the team, according to quarterback Patrick Mahomes. “She’s really interested in football and asks a lot of great questions,” Mahomes told NBC’s Chris Simms with a smile in a recent interview. “She started drawing up plays, and we might have to put one in.” Ever since Swift began dating Chiefs tight end Kelce last year, it has placed a spotlight on the NFL, drawing new audiences to the league as two staples of American pop culture collided. Roughly 123.4 million average viewers tuned in to watch the Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl in February – the most for any US television broadcast since then. “I think it’s been cool to see the girls and the women that have really embraced watching football,” Mahomes said. “I know being a girl dad, how cool it is for me to see these little girls – these daughters – and how much they’re loving to spend time with their dad, watching football. And then meeting Taylor, realizing how genuine and cool she is. I think that’s been special to me because she’s, like you said, the most famous person in the world, she could not be.” Even before Swift’s relationship with Kelce, the pop star was a football fan, referencing the Philadelphia Eagles in one of her songs and wearing their sweater while walking around New York City.
