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While it may feel like Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift have been dating for eternity, the upcoming 2024/25 NFL season will actually be the first that the A-list couple will be dating throughout (assuming they don’t break up).
This is to say that, for as annoying as the NFL’s capitalization on Taylor Swift’s fame was last year, it might actually be worse this season.
Take this recent interview with Patrick Mahomes, for example, in which he says that Swift not only “asks a lot of great” football questions but that she’s already “drawing up plays.”
“She’s really interested in football. She asks a lot of great questions,” Mahomes said in an interview with NBC Sports. “She’s already drawing up plays, so we might have to put one in.”
Mahomes was also quite complementary of the famed pop star, saying that “It’s been cool to see the girls and women that have embraced watching football [because of Swift] and that it’s been “special” to see how “genuine and cool” Swift is.
While Mahomes’ comments are half-serious (she sounds legitimately interested in football) and half-kidding (about using one of her plays), there’s no denying it’s easy to imagine someone like Swift saying something along the lines of “Why don’t we just run the ball every time?” and thinking they just cracked the code to playing football.
Mahomes, Kelce, and the rest of the Kansas City Chiefs, as the defending Super Bowl champions, have the honor of kicking off the 2024/25 season with a home matchup against the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday, September 5. Mahomes and the Chiefs are favored over Lamar Jackson and the Ravens by 3 points.
The two-time defending Super Bowl champions are the current betting favorites to win this year’s championship. If they were to do so, the Chiefs would become the first team in NFL history to win three straight Super Bowl titles and would be the fourth overall of the Mahomes era. Mahomes will be turning 29 years old in September.