Travis Kelce jumped to his girlfriend Taylor Swift’s song “Shake It Off” during his and brother Jason Kelce’s “New Heights Live: We Gotta Talk About It” show Thursday at Fifth Third Arena in Cincinnati .
During a game of the Lombaby Games, a competition he and Jason created for the event, the Kansas City Chiefs player was seen grooving while a marching band played the pop star’s hit song .
“This is one of my favorites,” he could be heard telling the crowd in a TikTok video posted from the show.
Swift, 34, was not seen at the event, which Page Six attended, but she is not expected to be one of the surprise guests – even though she is currently on break from the international leg of her Eras tour .
The “Bad Blood” singer is reportedly focusing on “rest and recuperation” during her much-needed time off, and also spent some quality time with friends at a recent birthday party in Los Angeles.
However, the Kelce brothers, who returned to their home state of Ohio for the live podcast taping, brought in Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow and his former Chiefs teammate , Orlando Brown Jr., as special guests.
Their mother, Donna Kelce, was also seen supporting her sons and posing with fans for photos at the venue.
The Fifth Third Arena sits just outside Nippert Stadium, where the event was originally supposed to take place before weather complications. The stadium holds a special place for Travis, 34, and Jason, 36, because it’s where the brothers played college football for the University of Cincinnati (UC).
Jason attended school there from 2006 to 2011 before being drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles his senior year, and Travis attended UC from 2008 to 2012 before being drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in 2013.
The Lombaby Games thrilled audiences with silly competitions that required participants to do things like pin a mustache on an Andy Reid cutout and ride a bull while taking quizzes.
Jason teased the event on “New Heights” in March, saying, “One of the beautiful things about doing this on a college campus, you want the college atmosphere, you want the students to be involved, the students- athletes involved, so we’re going to have two teams of UC students.
“I’m not going to lie. I got this idea from “Revenge of the Nerds”. Football team vs. nerds. I’m not saying non-athletic guys are nerds, unless you like being called a nerd.
The retired Eagles center said at the time that the teams would face off in fun but “ridiculous” games.
Ultimately, it was the nerds who won Thursday at the Lombaby Games.
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Thousands of people came out to support the Kelce brothers for their live podcast event, and Swifties were certainly part of the crowd.
Both Travis and Jason have previously acknowledged how Swift’s fandom has brought even more success to their podcast “New Heights,” which they launched in September 2022.
After winning Podcast of the Year at the 2024 iHeartPodcast Awards in March, Jason said in an acceptance speech: “Receiving an award like this is beyond humbling, and we would be remiss if we didn’t immediately thank all the 92 percent — aka Swifties — who voted for us to win this award.
Professional athletes have mentioned or alluded to Swift in several of their podcast episodes.
Travis sang a line from the Grammy-winning hit “Bad Blood” on the show in March, and he also gushed about his trip to Singapore, where he saw her perform on her Eras tour, in a another episode the same month.
The love is mutual, however, as Swift has proven that she listens to the podcast and is part of the 92 Percent fandom.
In January, the “Lover” singer subtly “liked” an Instagram video of Travis and Jason discussing the latter’s wild shirtless behavior at the Chiefs’ game against the Buffalo Bills, which Swift attended.
New episodes of the “New Heights” podcast air every Wednesday.
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