Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Stroll Through Indianapolis, Hand in Hand

If Taylor Swift has the tour version of senioritis, it hasn’t kicked in yet. The billionaire singer’s Eras Tour is down to its final US dates, a three-night stint in Indianapolis at the city’s Lucas Oil Stadium, but from all accounts, the shows have so far been as jam-packed with vigor as the tour’s March 2023 kickoff in Glendale, Arizona. Of course, work always feels easier when you have a loved one to meet you after you clock off—and on Saturday, that someone was Swift’s boyfriend and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who spent some of his weekend in the Hoosier state.

According to the Indianapolis Star, fans first realized Kelce was at the show when she did her now-iconic lyric change to her song “Karma,” singing “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs, coming straight home to me,” as she does when Kelce is in the stands. Shots posted to social media confirmed the athlete-turned-thespian’s arrival at Lucas Oil. He later took a seat in the VIP section alongside the singer’s mother, Andrea Swift, People notes, with the pair dancing side-by-side during “So High School,” if this TikTok is to be believed.

As the show concluded, Kelce headed backstage, a move also captured and shared on social media. Another fan caught the pair on an Indianapolis street just outside the stadium right after the show.

Kelce wasn’t the only famous athlete at last night’s show. Caitlin Clark, the wildly popular WNBA player who just concluded her first season with the Indiana Fever, attended the show with her mom, Sports Illustrated reports. The mother and daughter reportedly stood next to Kelce for much of the show—which was Clark’s second in a row. Clark attended Friday’s show with boyfriend Connor McCaffery.

Clark and Kelce have something in common beyond an appreciation of Swift’s work. Both have faced unprecedented scrutiny and public commentary in recent months, as much for their lives outside work as within it. But while Kelce and Clark appear to be navigating those stressors as well as they can, it’s possible that Kelce’s older brother, Jason Kelce, is facing more of a struggle. As reported by the New York Times and elsewhere, the senior Kelce—who also co-hosts the brothers’ New Heights podcast, was engaged in an ugly fracas at Penn State Saturday, after a member of a crowd surrounding the former Philadelphia Eagle nonsensically asked him, using a slur intended to denigrate gay men, “Kelce, how does it feel that your brother is a f—–t for dating Taylor Swift?”

Upon hearing the question, Kelce reportedly grabbed his questioner’s phone, threw it to the ground, and responded—using the same bigoted word—“Who’s the f—-t now?” As of publication time, neither member of the Kelce family has addressed the altercation or Kelce’s use of the offensive term.

And before you ask, Taylor Swift’s boyfriend wasn’t missing out on his day job to watch his girlfriend’s show. The as-yet-undefeated Chiefs aren’t playing until Monday night, when they’ll face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Arrowhead Stadium, a quick seven-hour drive from Indy. This poses the obvious and much-Googled question, “Will Taylor Swift be at the next Kansas City Chiefs game?”

As her next Eras Tour show isn’t until a November 14-23 stint in Toronto, and as security concerns reportedly mean she’s sticking to the team’s home games, it certainly seems very possible. That game will be the last one Swift is free to attend until after Sunday, December 8, when the Eras Tour sees its final show in Vancouver.