If Taylor Swift indeed graces Lambeau Field with her superstar presence on Sunday night for the Green Bay Packers’ game against the Kansas City Chiefs, she won’t be the only face you’re likely to see on the NBC cameras.
Here’s a rundown of all the key names and faces involved in this season-long story.
You’ve heard of her? The most famous entertainment personality of the moment turns 34 just 10 days after the Packers game and hails from West Reading, Pennsylvania.
She began her recording career as a teenager in Nashville, starting in earnest with her debut album “Taylor Swift” in 2006. That was merely the beginning.
Though her celebrity has gradually built over the ensuing years, nothing has been able to match the spectacle of “The Eras Tour,” which began in 2023 five years after her last tour — and with four new albums since her last tour.
The tour, which will continue in 2024, sells out stadiums immediately after tickets go on sale and has spawned a hit concert movie that will finish among the 10 biggest movies at the domestic box office in 2023.
She’s won 12 Grammy Awards, including three Album of the Year awards, among numerous other accolades. She’s become a figure of cultural prominence even beyond her music, though she also happens to be the highest-grossing female music producer ever and crossed into billionaire status this year.
And now, she’s dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. Her dating history, often an object of fascination for her fans, has occasionally led to a hit song or two over the years.
The Kansas City Chiefs star, 34, is one of the greatest tight ends of all time. He’s made the past eight Pro Bowls and been named first-team All-Pro four times.
He was named to the NFL’s all-decade team for the 2010s, usually a marker that indicates he’ll eventually get inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Kelce has said he first got to know Swift over the summer, but rumors of their relationship picked up considerable steam in September, particularly when she showed up at the Chiefs game Sept. 24, watching from the Kelce family suite in a win over the Bears.
Swift has been to three other Chiefs games (all wins), and the relationship was essentially confirmed in mid-October when the couple was seen holding hands.
Donna Kelce
Kelce’s mother was already a bit of a media star after last season, when the Chiefs advanced to the Super Bowl against the Eagles — a team featuring Travis’ brother, Jason Kelce — and Donna regularly wore a custom jersey that demonstrated support to both sides of the divide. She’s been interviewed about the Taylor-Travis relationship on the “Today” show.
Somewhat lesser-known is father Ed Kelce, who has said he had a strongly favorable first impression of Swift and complimented her for casually picking up empty bottles and other garbage in the suite when she went to get a drink herself.
Donna and Ed were married for 20 years before getting a divorce, but the couple remain friends.
Another person you’re likely to see in the suite is Brittany Mahomes, the wife of Chiefs quarterback Patrick. Fans of the Netflix series “Quarterback” will recognize her after she played a prominent role in taking cameras behind the scenes of her family’s life.
Brittany seems to have hit it off with Swift, even crafting a special handshake after a touchdown and seemingly exchanging texts on a regular basis.
No pair of brothers have ever been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but that’s not going to remain true forever. Wisconsin natives J.J. Watt and T.J. Watt are both on course.
Former Packers receiver Sterling Sharpe could eventually get the call to join his brother Shannon. You can’t rule out Eli Manning one day joining his brother Peyton