Travis Kelce Shares How Taylor Swift and Her Family ‘Saved Christmas’

On Christmas Day, Travis Kelce’s team the Kansas City Chiefs lost to the Raiders at Arrowhead Stadium, which wasn’t the best way to kick off the holiday for the NFL star. On a special family edition of his podcast New Heights released on December 29, Travis and his brother Jason Kelce invited some more of their family members on the episode to discuss how they turned the day around with the help of Travis’s girlfriend, Taylor Swift, and her family.

Jason’s wife Kylie Kelce asked how his Christmas Day had gone, and he admitted it wasn’t great to start.

“F—, the worst,” Travis said of the game. “I’m not gonna lie. I’ve had better. But it ended well! It ended well with good Christmas cheer and great people.”

“That’s always going to save Christmas,” Travis continued. “No matter if you lose to the Raiders or not.”

The football player left the stadium with Taylor hand-in-hand, and they were joined by his dad, Ed Kelce, her parents, Scott and Andrea Swift, and her brother, Austin Swift, who attended the game in a full Santa Claus costume. He apparently wore it all day, or at least until they all handed out presents.

“He actually made me feel like a child,” Travis said of Austin. “because his gift to me was straight out of the bag.”

Kylie asked, “Like the Santa sack? It was in the Santa sack?”

“It was in the Santa sack,” Travis responded. “Whipped it out. He handed me a VHS of my favorite football movie of all-time. He killed it.”

That movie is 1994’s Little Giants.

Later in the podcast, his girlfriend was referenced again when Taylor’s song “Christmas Tree Farm” got called out.

It started when Kylie said, “We were a real tree family, and we did not cut it down, but we would go into, like, west Philly, and pick a tree because it was cheaper there.”

“West Philly. Did you guys go out to Reading or Lancaster?” Travis asked.

“I heard there was a tree farm out there,” Kylie replied. Before Taylor moved to Nashville with her family to pursue a music career, she was raised on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, Pennsylvania. Her holiday song talks all about the magic of the season.

Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and more. Her first book, The Lonely Hunter, will be released by Dial Press in February 2022.