Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce’s relationship being targeted to distract Chiefs

As the Chiefs continue to dominate the NFL, Kansas City’s rivals are on the lookout for any and every vulnerability in order to knock Patrick Mahomes and company off their perch. The Chiefs are hoping to become the first team in league history to complete a Super Bowl three-peat amid an offseason of distraction, while teams like the Baltimore Ravens will need to exploit signs of weakness to overcome them.

Ravens head coach John Harbaugh watched his team come up just short against Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Kansas City’s championship experience in last year’s AFC title game. Harbaugh, one of the NFL’s longest-tenured coaches, saw Kelce rack up 116 receiving yards and a touchdown in that 17-10 Chiefs win — and he’s hoping he doesn’t have to see the 34-year-old too many more times.

John Harbaugh: Secret Swiftie or fierce competitor?

Like everyone else around the NFL, Harbaugh is aware of the romance between Kelce and pop superstar Taylor Swift. And like a lot of Swifties, he is hoping the couple eventually decides to marry. But unlike those Swift superfans, his rationale is a bit more devious.

“I hope they get married. I hope they have a bunch of kids,” Harbaugh told Us Weekly. Heck, maybe he’ll get ready to retire here pretty soon to pursue that family aspect of his life. I would encourage that.”

The hilarious reasoning underlines Kelce’s dominance over the years, and how his consistency aided the Chiefs’ rise from an AFC also-ran into football’s most feared team. Kelce and Swift have not announced plans to wed (at least not yet), but her presence throughout the 2023 season served as a kind of “good luck charm” for Kansas City, which defeated the Ravens in Baltimore to advance to Super Bowl LVIII in January.

The Chiefs and Ravens will be quickly re-acquainted in 2024, as the two teams play Week 1 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. And with Kelce signing a contract extension this spring, the future Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee figures to torture the Baltimore coaching staff for a little while longer.