Taylor Swift Helps Travis Kelce After He Breaks Chiefs TD Document

Taylor Swift is cheering on Travis Kelce, even when she’s not on the sidelines.

Because the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ star tight finish, 34, earned one other receiving landing and helped his workforce clinch victory towards the Pittsburgh Steelers on Christmas Day, 29-10, he additionally additional etched his title within the franchise’s historical past books.

On Wednesday, Dec. 25, Kelce formally handed Chiefs legend Tony Gonzalez for the franchise file of all-time receiving touchdowns, when a fourth-quarter play and 12-yard seize earned him his 77th receiving TD. The NFL itself confirmed the stat, as Kelce’s 77 profession receiving touchdowns sit simply above Gonzalez’s 76, in addition to above Otis Taylor’s 57, Tyreek Hill’s 56 and Chris Burford’s 55.

That day, the Chiefs celebrated its newest record-breaker with a well timed Instagram snap, exhibiting Kelce’s face alongside the phrases “most receiving touchdowns.” And whereas she wasn’t current on the Dec. 25 recreation, Swift, 35, did depart a supportive “like” on the Chiefs’ picture, which featured a celebratory caption for Kelce.

“In case you ever can’t discover Travis, chances are high he’s in the long run zone,” the workforce wrote. “Congrats, @killatrav!”

Different followers and pals joined in to congratulate Kelce on his newest profession milestone, together with teammate Jody Fortson, who used a goat emoji to salute the man tight finish.

The record-breaking recreation got here simply 4 days after Swift attended the Chiefs vs. Texans recreation at Arrowhead Stadium on Saturday, Dec. 21, when the pop famous person was noticed cheering on Kelce in fuzzy, purple apparel.

For the outing, Swift wore an extended purple Charlotte Simone winter coat and black pants. She additionally spored a purple Tod’s bag and a few knee-high boots.

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Kelce has continued to have a record-breaking season for each the franchise itself and the league as an entire. Among the many main performs by Kelce was a 19-yard reception in a Nov. 24 recreation towards the Carolina Panthers, which made him the tight finish with the third-most receiving yards in NFL historical past. On the time, he handed Antonio Gates’ file of 11,841 receiving yards.

Throughout an interview on The Kelly Clarkson Present  final month, Gonzalez was requested about Kelce surpassing a number of of his personal data — together with incomes 11,000 receiving yards within the fewest variety of video games (154) as a good finish and most receiving yards ever by a Chiefs participant. As beforehand famous, Gonzalez nonetheless holds the NFL’s file for general yards (15,127) by a good finish.

“He’s such a very good dude and the entire Taylor Swift factor now,” the daddy of 4, who performed within the NFL for 17 seasons, mentioned earlier than including how new kinds of followers are approaching him.

“I used to be like, ‘Oh, how cool, I’m getting so standard {that a} 10-year-old lady [wants to talk to me],’” Gonzalez shared, laughing. “She goes, ‘Hello, Is your title Tony? Are you aware Travis Kelce?’ However I believe it’s nice that Taylor’s completed this for the NFL, she’s introduced an entire new viewers, it’s been nice.”