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NFL star Travis Kelce turned a “Cruel Summer” into a big win: He scored a relationship with Taylor Swift. So how did it all start for Taylor and Travis?

On July 26, 2023, Travis lamented on the “New Heights” podcast that he hosts with brother Jason Kelce, a center for the Philadelphia Eagles, that he’d tried and failed to give Taylor a homemade friendship bracelet with his number on it when he caught a performance of her “The Eras Tour” show at his team’s stadium earlier that month.

“I was disappointed that she doesn’t talk before or after her shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs that she sings,” Travis said, adding, “So, I was a little b***-hurt that I didn’t get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her.” When Jason asked his brother if he meant his jersey number or his phone number, Travis responded, “You know which one.”

According to Taylor, that playful comment set things in motion. In Time magazine’s 2023 Person of the Year cover story, which hit the internet on Dec. 6, she confirmed, “This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell. We started hanging out right after that. So we actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other. By the time I went to that first game [in September], we were a couple. I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game? We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date.”

She made it clear that once people knew they were dating, they had nothing to hide. “When you say a relationship is public, that means I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re showing up for each other, other people are there and we don’t care,” she told Time a few weeks after Travis traveled to Argentina to cheer her on during the South America leg of her “The Eras Tour.” “The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you’re seeing someone. And we’re just proud of each other.”

Keep reading to see her at football games with Travis’s mom (and dad!) and holding hands with Travis and much more…

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