Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are set to be married tomorrow, and the Chiefs have spent the last stretch of this relationship watching the ripple effects hit their business from every angle.
The timeline goes back to the summer of 2023, when Kelce attended Swift’s “Eras Tour” stop at Arrowhead Stadium. On his “New Heights” podcast with his brother, former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, he explained what he tried to do that night.
"I wanted to give Taylor Swift [a friendship bracelet] with my number on it," Kelce told his brother, former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, on their "New Heights" podcast on July 26, 2023. "She didn't want to meet me, so I took it personal."
Swift’s first Chiefs game came a little later, on Sept. 24, 2023, when she was first seen in a suite with Donna Kelce as Kansas City beat the Chicago Bears, 41-10, in Week 3.
"Shout out to Taylor for pulling up," Kelce said on his "New Heights" podcast. "I just thought it was awesome how everybody in the suite had nothing but great things to say about her, you know, the friends and family. She looked amazing, everybody was talking about her in a great light."
From there, she became a familiar face. Swift has attended 24 games, and the Chiefs have gone 20-4 in those contests.
The business side took off quickly. In September 2023, ESPN reported through Fanatics that Kelce jersey sales across the company’s network of sites had jumped nearly 400 percent after Swift showed up at Arrowhead for the first time.
The TV audience followed, too. Fox Sports said the Chiefs-Bears game drew 24.3 million viewers, which made it the most-watched NFL game of that weekend. The boost was especially noticeable among females ages 12-17, where viewership rose nearly 8 percent from the year before.
The league’s social media machine also leaned hard into the moment. The NFL’s 34 posts about Swift around her first Arrowhead appearance and in the days after produced a reported 170 million impressions.
Chiefs owner Clark Hunt has pointed to the fanbase growth as well, especially among young women. In 2025, he told CNBC, "Certainly, our fanbase took a big leap forward last year -- particularly with female, specifically young female fans," Hunt told CNBC in 2025.
"I think we had something like a 30 percent growth in our fanbase, which is pretty significant even for a team that won the Super Bowl. So you have to definitely give Taylor a little bit of credit for that."
Hunt expanded on that idea during an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show.”
"It's been a whirlwind I would say for the organization over the last two years since Taylor literally stepped into our lives," Hunt said. "She's done an amazing job, unintentionally, of increasing our female fanbase. We used to [have] about a 50/50 ratio, male to female fanbase, and now 57 percent of our fans are female, which I think is probably the highest in the National Football League.
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