The footballer said going for the first time was like being in “a completely different world.”
Everything has its first time, and even though Travis Kelce is a professional athlete, going to the U.S. Open with Taylor Swift was a whole new experience for him.
In the September 11 edition of the podcast New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce, Travis disclosed that he was attending the yearly tennis championship for the first time, along with Swift, on September 8 during the U.S. Open men’s final match.
“It was my first time. My second time going to a tennis match, at least a professional tennis match as big as this one,” the Kansas City Chiefs tight end explained. “This was a completely different world. I looked to my left and my right and every single time I did it, I saw a familiar face. There were so many fucking people there to see the action, especially the final game, knowing that an American was in the US Open, Taylor Fritz.”
Attending the Open required Travis to have a shift in his behavior—he told his brother Jason that “it’s very quiet [during the game] and you know us, when it’s very quiet, we want to say something.” Despite wanting to heckle Italian player Jannik Sinner, who played against Fritz and won, he stayed quiet and noted that he “dressed the part [in Gucci], acted the part” and was “very quiet except for during intermissions when they were playing music.”
“That was about the only time I was really showing my personality,” Travis added, which checks out, as he and Swift were spotted jumping around and singing The Darkness’s track, “I Believe In a Thing Called Love.”
Travis also wished Swift well for the upcoming big event on her social calendar, the 2024 MTV Video Music prizes, where the pop star is up for twelve prizes. This happened elsewhere in the podcast. He remarked, “Hopefully she can leave with some moon men.” “They are consistently among the most impressive awards. The guys from space.
