Ahead of the Kansas City Chief's high-profile Monday Night Football game last night (Nov. 20) against the Philadelphia Eagles, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes insisted that teammate Travis Kelce's romance with Taylor Swift has not become a distraction for the team.
"I've been lucky enough to meet Taylor and see how good of a person she is," Mahomes told ESPN's Jeff Darlington. "I think you can understand why it's not become a distraction or anything like that because everybody cares about being the best they can be every day."
Mahomes, whose wife Brittany has been seen publicly outside of game days with Swift, expressed interest in catching an Eras Tour stop after the NFL playoffs wrap up in February.
"We'll see when we get to the off-season, maybe I'm traveling to Europe to go to a concert or something," he added.
Darlington asked Mahomes if the romance buzz feels bigger than the hype surrounding the Chiefs' two recent Super Bowl victories (in 2020 and 2023).
"I don't think it feels any different," Mahomes said. "People see the whole Taylor Swift and Travis [thing] and they make it a huge deal because it is a huge deal. I think it becomes a bigger deal to the fan bases than it does to the guys who are actually in the building."
Plus, Kelce's a consummate teammate to Mahomes and the rest of the Chiefs.
"His family and my family have almost become one family because of the relationship that we have and how we kind of became just brothers on the football field and off the football field as well," Mahomes said. "He doesn't try to be this Travis Kelce Saturday Night Live guy, he just wants to be the guy who comes to play football every single day.
"And I think that's what makes him so special and why guys really gravitate toward him," Mahomes continued. "We both love winning, and we love competing, and I think that's what makes us have that same weight on the football field because we're going to compete until the very end."
