Travis Kelce Gushes Nonstop About Taylor Swift In New GQ Interview (He Also Talks About Football A Little Bit)
Personally I'm cracking up at these photos. They're so crazy but also so fucking chic???? Travis styled for GQ by icon and legend Law Roach (Zendaya's stylist) on its own is an incredible feat - and on top of that, we get a full article of him GUSHING about Taylor?
I highly recommend you read the whole article but here are a few of my favorite quotes:
The impression he gives off lately is of unrepressed joy—squint-smiling through his newly long hair and the glare of paparazzi flashes as he goes to dinner or a Stanley Cup game with his partner, Taylor Swift. And, besides, brooding self-pity is simply not in his nature. “I love being the happiest guy in the world all the fucking time,” he says.
I’m curious how the media scrutiny—increased exponentially since he started dating Swift—affects him. Does he pay any attention to it? “You can’t block that out,” he says. “If someone says something that they don’t like about you, you have to be able to understand how you are portraying yourself for them to say that. I’m a guy who doesn’t want anyone to say anything negative about me. Some people don’t give a fuck. I’m someone who does care.”
(OMG he's just like us!)
“He’s incredibly intelligent,” says Jason Kelce. “But he never really cared enough about school to be in AP courses. I was always in AP courses and then we’d take the same proficiency test, and he’d get a higher grade. It’s like, ‘How are you getting a better math grade when you haven’t even taken algebra yet?’ ”
I ask him about his hallmark first down gesture—one of the all-time athlete celebrations. So simple, so cocky, so devastating to opposing fans. Across from me, Kelce chuckles, raises both hands, points his fingers in the same direction, though not as emphatically as in games. It’s the slight dramatic pause followed by the assertive point that makes it so savage.
“When did that start?” I ask. “What was the inspiration?”
“I don’t know,” he says. “I know Tay picked it up and she did it in New Orleans.”
Tayyyyyy SWOON
Last October, on a Louisiana stop of her Eras Tour, Swift worked the first down point into her choreography. And the internet went crazy, as it always does over anything having to do with the pair. I’ve been looking for the right way to ask Kelce about Swift, without reducing him to a sidekick. As it turns out, taking turns being a sidekick sits just fine with him.
“I get to be the plus one,” he says. “I get to go and be that fan. Because I am a fan. I’m a fan of music. I’m a fan of art. And it’s so cool that I get to experience her being that plus one for me on the football field…. I feel that same enjoyment every time she comes to my shows.” A few weeks after we speak, Swift will join Kelce in Nashville at Tight End University, a training camp and charity fundraiser Kelce cofounded with George Kittle and Greg Olsen, and put on an impromptu performance. “I sort of made her a football fan,” Kelce says. “She is the most engulfed fan now. She knows what the injury reports look like. She understands what special situations are, third and short—all these things because she just naturally loves to hear about my job.”
SWOOOOOONNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!
I'm gonna try really hard not to C/P the whole article from here on out but it's a DOOZY:
“I hadn’t experienced somebody in the same shoes as me, having a partner who understands the scrutiny, understands the ups and downs of being in front of millions. That was very relatable, seeing how exhausted she would get after shows. She may not think of herself as an athlete. She will never tell anyone that she is an athlete. But I’ve seen what she goes through. I’ve seen the amount of work that she puts on her body, and it’s mind-blowing.”
“To go out on a stage, on a computer, essentially, for three hours. The [Eras Tour] floor is literally—I’ve seen underneath that thing. It is a football-field-sized computer. You take that into Singapore, where it is scorching hot, and all of a sudden you’re feeling the fumes from the computer and you’re feeling the fumes from the sun and you’re doing a show for three hours with a lot of energy, bringing it every single song. That is arguably more exhausting than how much I put in on a Sunday, and she’s doing it three, four, five days in a row.”
Kelce talks about Swift freely, with the confident adoration of a sturdy relationship, and with obvious pride. Not macho pride in his having attained the seemingly unattainable, or the overprotective possessiveness so often confused for chivalry. Kelce expresses selfless pride. Immaculate pride. The kind he, of traditionally Midwestern stock, has been unwilling to express about his own accomplishments when I’ve raised them.
Alright I think that's all I can do without getting in trouble, but it's REALLY amazing how Travis goes out of his way to praise Taylor. The rest of the article is great too, he really does seem to be some kind of anomaly football playing left brain genius? Damn. Travis Kelce - truly America's Sweetheart.