Could Taylor Swift make a training camp cameo for the Chiefs this summer?
That question has hovered around St. Joseph ever since the summer of 2024, when Chiefs camp took on a completely different feel after Travis Kelce started dating Taylor Swift, the country’s No. 1 hitmaker. The first practice after that relationship became public brought a fresh wave of fans to Missouri Western State University: Swifties.
Swift never showed up in person, but her fans did. They came with signs, cheers and friendship bracelets to back Kelce, and he gave plenty back in return. He signed autographs and, in one session, tossed a football glove to a Swiftie wearing a shirt that read, “In My Red Era.”
Swift has also made her support for Chiefs Kingdom obvious since the first game she attended in Kansas City on Sept. 24, 2023, when she partied with Chiefs players afterward. Now that she is preparing for her first season as an official NFL wife, it’s fair to wonder whether she might appear at what could be Kelce’s final training camp.
Camp opens for quarterbacks and rookies on Friday, with veterans such as Kelce due in St. Joseph on Tuesday.
The idea isn’t far-fetched on its face. Chiefs spouses visit camp, and WAGS around the league do the same, with some sharing those trips on social media.
Swift wouldn’t even be the first celebrity Chiefs WAG to stop by. In 2015, Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson visited her then-fiance-now-husband, Andrew East, when he was a rookie training with the team at Missouri Western State University.
Brittany Mahomes, co-owner of the KC Current and wife of quarterback Patrick Mahomes, has brought the couple’s children to see their dad at camp the past two summers. Last July, Maureen Remigio, wife of wide receiver Nick Remigio, posted photos of herself cooking Filipino food and taking it to her husband at camp.
“Best believe I’m spoiling my husband always,” she wrote on one post.
A visit from Swift would also fit the image she’s built around the Chiefs: enthusiastic, thoughtful and invested in the people around Kelce. She’s baked homemade Pop-Tarts for the offensive line. She’s made baby blankets for the Mahomes’ newest baby, Golden Raye, and for former Chiefs wide receiver Mecole Hardman Jr. and his fiancée Chariah Gordon when they had a baby in early 2024.
Taylor Swift baked homemade victory Pop Tarts me! Yolonda Merritt said, “She’s done it all season for different people Dave” 🤦🏽♂️ I thought I was SPECIAL 🤦🏽♂️😝🤣Sweet young woman regardless! pic.twitter.com/j5sNNLtQgf
- David Merritt, Sr. (@DavidMerrittSr1) November 27, 2024
Still, there are real reasons to think she won’t be in St. Joseph.
The drive from Rosecrans Memorial Airport to the Missouri Western campus is only about 10 minutes, but that doesn’t mean a private jet arrival is likely, even if people track that kind of thing closely. There is a tent overlooking the practice fields for family and friends of Chiefs players, coaches and staff, and Donna Kelce was spotted there last year. But nobody on Swift’s level of fame has been to a Chiefs training camp practice.
If she did come, security would have to change in a major way. There are at least four entry points to campus, and each would need a police presence.
Fans, media and workers on campus would all face tighter restrictions, and university employees would need advance notice. That kind of planning would almost certainly leak, likely through social media.
And there’s another practical hurdle: Kelce is getting ready for a 14th NFL season, and the Chiefs probably don’t need the distraction of a Swift sighting hanging over practice. It would be a full-blown sideshow.
There’s also the calendar itself. Between now and Aug. 9, the players have only three days off from practice. Kelce can head back to Leawood to see Swift, who, as always, has plenty going on of her own.
She is, as you know, always working herself.
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