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Taylor Swift celebrates with tight end Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Travis Kelce may have played his final game ever at Arrowhead Stadium for the Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday night, December 25, and NFL cameras caught the initial postgame reactions of both the future Hall of Fame tight end and his fiancée, music star Taylor Swift.
The league shared a video just under one minute long of Kelce smiling and cordially greeting members of the Denver Broncos, arguably his team’s most hated rival, after what well could be his last ever matchup against them.
Kelce’s demeanor following the game is at least a little surprising given how glum and forlorn he appeared after a couple of the Chiefs’ most recent defeats.
He opted not to speak to media members after a loss against the Houston Texans in Week 14, during which he made a critical error late that sealed the outcome. Kelce again went radio silent — and television and internet silent, as it were — after a loss to the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 15, which closed the book on Kansas City’s playoff chances and ended in a catastrophic knee injury to quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
“Travis Kelce walks off the field after his last home game of the season,” the NFL captioned the video.
Swift, to whom the camera panned in a private box for a few brief moments, didn’t show a great deal of emotion. The broadcast caught her looking down at the field for a second or two, then turning back to the several people who surrounded her in the exclusive area of the stadium.
Kansas City lost the game to Denver by a score of 20-13, dropping its fifth contest in a row and seventh in the last eight outings. Kelce finished the night with five catches for 36 yards.
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Max Dible covers the NFL, NBA and MLB for Heavy.com, with a focus on the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns. He covered local and statewide news as a reporter for West Hawaii Today and served as news director for BigIslandNow.com and Pacific Media Group’s family of Big Island radio stations before joining Heavy. More about Max Dible
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