Taylor Swift can do it all.
Patrick Mahomes shared in a new interview that the pop star has developed a complex understanding of football since she began dating his Kansas City Chiefs teammate Travis Kelce last summer.
“When she’s talking about football, when she’s learning it, you can see her business mind putting it together. It’s almost like she’s trying to become a coach. ‘Why can’t you try this, this and this?’ She’s asking the right questions,” Mahomes said in his Time 100 profile, published Tuesday.
Patrick Mahomes called Taylor Swift “down-to-earth” in a new interview.
The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback shared that the pop star has developed an understanding of football
“It’s almost like she’s trying to become a coach,” Mahomes told Time of Swift (seen here with his wife, Brittany Mahomes).
The quarterback, 28, met Swift, 34, in September 2023 when she attended the Chiefs’ game against the Chicago Bears to support Kelce, also 34.
Mahomes noted that he has “met a lot of famous people,” but he said the Grammy winner is “probably the most down-to-earth” of them all.
“She’s never not working,” he raved to the magazine.
Swift is dating Patrick’s teammate Travis Kelce
“She’s never not working,” he said.
“Even when she’s taking her downtime, she’s working on something. Shooting a music video or singing a song or writing a song. You can see it by how she talks.”
Mahomes acknowledged that Swift helped the Chiefs go “from a nationwide team that was kind of global to a full global, worldwide team” with her star power.
“That came from Taylor’s fan base,” he added.
Patrick also addressed the intense spotlight the Chiefs came under last season.
“[It] came from Taylor’s fan base,” he explained.
However, Mahomes insisted his team was not distracted by the intense media attention brought on by Swift’s relationship with Kelce.
“We just embraced it,” he said.
“We like having that visibility. At the end of the day, football has always been this bruising sport. We want to make it fun, where kids grow up and play football and show their personality and be who they are. This year really magnified that.”
Mahomes said his team “embraced” the attention
He and Kelce became three-time Super Bowl champions when they took home the win in February
In February of 2024, Mahomes and Kelce led the Chiefs to victory in the Super Bowl, and their respective lovers, Brittany Mahomes and Swift, were spotted supporting them from a private suite.
Following their attendance at multiple games around the nation and their star-studded celebration of the team’s championship win in Las Vegas, the two have become closer in recent months.
Brittany, who has an athlete husband and two kids of her own, even defended Swift when a video went viral that purported the “Lover” singer had “ruined football.”