Tom Cruise got a front-row taste of Chiefs football at Arrowhead Stadium, and he came away sounding like a converted fan.
Appearing on the New Heights podcast, Cruise talked up the experience of watching Kansas City’s 31-10 win over the Broncos on “Monday Night Football.” He was in a luxury box with Travis Kelce’s wife, Taylor Swift, along with friends and family, and the setting clearly left an impression.
“It was so fun,” Cruise said on the podcast episode that was released Friday. “All your friends, all the people there, just such a beautiful vibe. And to see (Patrick) Mahomes, his comeback is just miraculous.
“But you guys together and the whole team together was just - it was a wonderful experience.”
Cruise also said he had been texting with Kelce before the trip and joked that he almost sent a message he decided to hold back.
“I was gonna write you, like I told you last night,” Cruise said. “I was like, ‘Now listen, I’m not coming to Kansas (City) to see you lose.’
We were texting back and forth. I had this thing, and I was like, ‘I’m not sending it.
He knows it already. I’m not sending this.’”
That line drew laughs from Cruise, Kelce and Jason Kelce, the podcast’s co-host.
Swift also came up during the conversation, with Cruise recalling a football chat from the box that included a nod to Super Bowl LVII, which the Chiefs beat the Eagles in, with Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce on opposite sides.
“By the way, I was sitting next to Taylor last night. She told me ... it was so funny.
She was talking about your first date. We were talking about football,” Cruise said.
“What she said (on the first date) was like, ‘How was it you two hitting each other?’”
Swift wasn’t exactly fluent in football when she first met Kelce, and she once thought the Kelce brothers were both on the field during Super Bowl LVII. But Cruise said she’s picked up the game quickly.
“She sees the flags coming in,” Kelce said.. “Like ‘Oh, that might be a defensive hold.’
I’m just like, ‘what? What’d you say, sweetie?’
She was like, '’That’s encroachment.’ I’m like, ‘You know what that is?’
She’s on it now. She got fully engulfed in it.”
Cruise said he got a similar education from Swift during the game.
“She was schooling me,” Cruise said. “’This is happening or that is happening.
He’s coming in.’ It was awesome.”
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