Why Taylor Swift Is Keeping a Lower Profile at Travis Kelce’s Chiefs Games

THE RUNDOWN

• Taylor Swift has been keeping a lower profile during Travis Kelce’s 2025-2026 NFL season in part to avoid “excessive attention” on herself.
• The singer has been attending home games but sneaking into Arrowhead Stadium without being filmed or photographed.
• Sources—and even Swift—have given insight into her decision to fly under the radar at Chiefs games.

For Travis Kelce’s 2023 and 2024 NFL seasons, Taylor Swift was a regular sight at his home games at Arrowhead Stadium. The singer was often photographed arriving and showing off her Kansas City Chiefs red outfit of the week.

This year, the singer has still been going to Kelce’s home games, but is flying under the radar. She has rarely appeared during the game’s broadcast and has entered the Kansas City, Missouri stadium without being filmed or photographed.

There are several good reasons she’s staying relatively hidden at home games and missing most away games. Here’s all we know about her decision.

Taylor Swift arriving at a Chiefs game in September 2024.

Going into her fiancé’s 2025 NFL season, Swift chose to maintain a lower profile because the attention she attracted was “getting too excessive,” a source said.

Earlier that year, a source told the outlet that Swift and Kelce had decided to keep their relationship more private for a similar reason. A source said in April, “Taylor and Travis have learned that so much attention on their relationship is not the best thing.”

During a BBC Radio 2 interview with Scott Mills, the singer teased that her best skill as a spy would be “entering and exiting the building without being seen. Just put me in a garbage can, roll me, I don’t care. Honestly, I can fit in like, a purse. Sometimes I just can’t deal with it [the paparazzi and attention] and in those times, I won’t deal with it. I’m just digging tunnels under every building I go into, airlifting in through the skylight.”

The comments came after she had attended some of Kelce’s home games without being detected.

From the very beginning of her relationship with Kelce, Swift never sought to take attention away from his football games. During her December 2023 Time interview, she explained, “I’m just there to support Travis. I have no awareness of if I’m being shown too much and pissing off a few dads, Brads, and Chads.”

She added that even she didn’t understand how the broadcasters always found her in the stadiums. “I don’t know how they know what suite I’m in,” she said. “There’s a camera, like, a half-mile away, and you don’t know where it is, and you have no idea when the camera is putting you in the broadcast, so I don’t know if I’m being shown 17 times or once.”

Swift sang in “Wi$h Li$t” about how much she wants a private life with Kelce, especially off the field. The chorus goes: “I just want you / Have a couple kids / Got the whole block looking like you / We tell the world to leave us the fuck alone...and they do / Wow / Got me dreaming ’bout a driveway / with a basketball hoop / Boss up, settle down.”

She told Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe that Kelce inspired the track: “When I met Travis, I started to feel a little bit like I could be a person who could have romantic whims and have these dreams.” She said its chorus is “very sincere,” despite its otherwise cheeky lyrics.

“I don’t know if you’ve seen the movie Happy Gilmore, but he has this happy place where he goes into this utopia of this is exactly what he would want, and this is where he escapes to mentally in times of stress, pressure, anxiety, or chaos,” she said. “And that chorus of that song is me just describing what my happy place is.”

Swift’s safety comes first when she supports her partner. While she regularly attends Kelce’s home games, she hasn’t been at any of his away games this season or last.

A source cited security as a main reason, telling Page Six in October 2024, “She’s not going anywhere unless she knows the venue intimately, and it has been thoroughly scouted and secured in advance.” Swift’s team is naturally most familiar with Arrowhead Stadium, the Chiefs’ home field.

The star has attended the last two Super Bowls, however, cheering on Kelce as he played in 2024 at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, and in 2025 during the Chiefs’ game at New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome (2025). She also attended his AFC Championship games both years. Only 2024’s game was an away game, in Baltimore.