Travis Kelce Breaks Down How Taylor Swift Ended Up on the TEU Stage

Travis Kelce is sharing more insight into how Taylor Swift‘s surprise performance at Tight End University came to be — but there’s one detail he won’t spill.

Like fans hoped, Travis, 35, discussed the now-viral moment during the Wednesday, July 2, episode of his “New Heights” podcast with older brother Jason Kelce while recapping his time “out of the house” this past week.

“Tay Tay showed up,” Travis teased after Jason, 37, asked how Swift, 35, decided to get up on stage. “I mean, you already know. We’re in Nashville, she grew up in Nashville. She moved there when she was younger. And yeah, we had this plan for a while that we were gonna have some fun with the tight ends.”

He continued, “I won’t say when the idea came up, but when we were there at Tight End & Friends and we knew there was a professional like Kane Brown who can just — he can figure it out. He’s a pro. He’s been on stage a million times, he’s not shy at all by any means. He’s a true professional. Tay just kinda went up to him and the band and was like, ‘Hey, if you guys are down, I’ll go up there and play a song and see if we can pop the roof off this place.'”

Travis gushed over his girlfriend for “making people feel comfortable” in any scenario, adding that she “absolutely rocked the stage yet again.”

Swift nearly broke the internet when she stepped out onto the stage at the TEU concert celebration at Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl on June 24. She grabbed an acoustic guitar and sang “Shake It Off,” which Jason described on Wednesday as “a surprise everybody didn’t see coming.”

“She was, like, in the back doing musical notes,” Travis recalled. “Like, sheets of music. She was kinda [it] writing out … then just went out there without practicing and was pitch-perfect. [She] just killed it. It was awesome, man.”

Jason went on to poke fun at the pop star’s presence at the football camp, teasing, “Was this her first time at an event sponsored by Dude Wipes?” Travis playfully replied, “Has to be the first and only, I would assume.”

Travis founded TEU in 2021 alongside fellow tight ends George Kittle and Greg Olsen as a way to share their knowledge of the position with young athletes. The Kansas City Chiefs star gave shout-outs to his cofounders and their families for helping the program improve “year in [and] year out.”

According to Travis, things got a little crazy on night one this year. “We ended up having a time,” he told Jason. “Everyone’s got an Aperol spritz … Greg Olsen’s favorite. I had about 30 of them.”

The group stayed out on Broadway until “the crack of dawn,” which made getting on the field a bit difficult the next day. “At 10 a.m. I had to a 30-minute seminar on route running,” Travis recalled. “I gotta stop getting hammered before these things, man. … It was hilarious.”