Taylor Swift and Donna Kelce Roll Into Kansas City Chiefs Matchup With Las Vegas Raiders

The day after Thanksgiving is typically known as Black Friday, but this year, Taylor Swift was painting the day red. The same day crowds lined up outside red-logoed Target stores to snag a copy of her book, Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Book (which includes details about the four Red-era songs included in the show), the singer donned a zip-necked red sweater to head into Arrowhead Stadium to watch boyfriend and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce triumph 19-17 against the Las Vegas Raiders. This, it seems, was not the weekend to bet on black.

Swift’s appearance Friday wasn’t a complete surprise: the singer is reportedly prioritizing Chiefs home games, as an uptick in security concerns has made her attendance at away games harder to arrange. “Obviously, anywhere she goes is a security issue,” Chiefs’s CEO Clark Hunt said in February. “It’s something that we’ve helped her security team handle when she comes to games in Kansas City…She has a really talented security team. They liaison with our security team, and we make sure we get her into and out of the stadium safely.”

But with her lengthy Eras tour approaching its final, indubitably emotional end in British Columbia next weekend, some assumed she’d remain in Canada to stay fresh for her final three shows on December 6-9. Then again, Taylor Swift also coined the statement “jet lag is a choice,” so those figuring she’d lay low just might have underestimated the star.

As Swift walked into the stadium Friday, she was joined by her boyfriend’s mother, Donna Kelce, who got her taste of stardom this week for her role in the Hallmark Channel holiday movie Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story, which dropped today. Before you assume the movie is about Taylor and Travis, calm down. From its press materials, the plot is such: “Alana Higman, a die-hard Kansas City Chiefs fan and her family are competing to win the team’s Fan of the Year contest, in a process judged by the director of fan engagement Derrick.”

It’s the second release in a row for Donna Kelce, who also appeared in Hallmark’s November 22 release, Christmas on Call. In that film about Philadelphia-area first responders, Kelce plays a character named “Donna,” while her character name in Touchdown has yet to be announced.

The Kelce family matriarch is talking about her growing fame in stride, which you might have guessed from the ease with which she tackled Arrowhead’s corridors with Swift. “It’s kind of fun to see people that have been in the industry and to try to learn from them, because I’m such a novice,” she said of her foray into show biz last month.

“I just started. I just have been fortunate because people know who I am. I know where this is coming from. I know they’re interested because of who my children are and who they know, and I just take it with a grain of salt. But it was really fun.”