Taylor Swift Jokes About Her ‘Male Sports Fans’ on Travis Kelce’s Podcast
The pop superstar quipped about her boyfriend’s fans taking issue with her taking up screen time when he plays at NFL games.

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Hitmaker and all-round pop culture phenomenon Taylor Swift remains Fearless in the face of backlash from her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s fans about her taking up screen time when the NFL tight-end plays. “I think we all know that if there’s one more thing that male sports fans wanna see in their spaces and on their screens, it’s more of me,” the pop superstar quipped in a teased clip from her upcoming appearance on Kelce’s podcast, New Heights. He hosts the show with his brother Jason Kelce, who played for the Philadelphia Eagles. Fans of Travis’ team, the Kansas City Chiefs, have increasingly expressed frustration with Swift’s appearance at games since the pair started dating more than two years ago. “Here for the football. Forced to have Taylor Swift,” as one user once put it on X, with others blaming her for a kind of ‘Yoko Ono’ effect when the team underperforms.
IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING
— New Heights (@newheightshow) August 13, 2025
TAYLOR SWIFT. TONIGHT. 7PM ET. pic.twitter.com/RjjaFVaYy3
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