--- title: Taylor Swift Fans Are Learning Football Rules description: When Taylor Swift watched the Kansas City Chiefs game from Travis Kelce's family box, Swifties took to social media to understand football. canonical: https://time.com/6317151/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-swifties-football/ author: Moises Mendez article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-09-25T16:41:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:50:54.162Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Swifties Are Studying Up on Football After Taylor Swift Went to the Chiefs Game og:description: When Taylor Swift watched the Kansas City Chiefs game from Travis Kelce's family box, Swifties took to social media to understand football. og:url: https://time.com/6317151/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-swifties-football/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23523df9fcfb39c3/698a40b2cabb1d76d7e51ca8/GettyImages-1700208112.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2828 og:image:height: 1591 og:image:alt: Taylor Swift Kansas City Chiefs og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Swifties Are Studying Up on Football After Taylor Swift Went to the Chiefs Game twitter:description: When Taylor Swift watched the Kansas City Chiefs game from Travis Kelce's family box, Swifties took to social media to understand football. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23523df9fcfb39c3/698a40b2cabb1d76d7e51ca8/GettyImages-1700208112.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Swifties Are Studying Up on Football After Taylor Swift Went to the Chiefs Game > Sponsored content. 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That’s an example of a parasocial interaction, which can progress into a parasocial relationship—typically defined as a one-sided social and emotional connection developed with fictional characters or celebrities._  by [Moises Mendez](https://time.com/author/moises-mendez-ii/)  ## Moises Mendez Sep 25, 2023 4:41 PM UTC  Taylor Swift cheers from a suite as the Kansas City Chiefs play the Chicago Bears at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium Taylor Swift cheers from a suite as the Kansas City Chiefs play the Chicago Bears at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images  by [Moises Mendez](https://time.com/author/moises-mendez-ii/)  ## Moises Mendez Sep 25, 2023 4:41 PM UTC For people who have never watched football before, the rules admittedly can be a little confusing. But today, a whole new population of prospective fans are asking the necessary questions in order to get a handle on the sport. Sunday night, Swifties decided it was time to figure out how the game works after spotting [Taylor Swift](https://time.com/6282468/taylor-swift-concert-memory/) at the Kansas City Chiefs game. Swift was watching in tight end Travis [Kelce’s](https://time.com/6126283/most-mispronounced-words-2021/) family box, alongside [his mother](https://time.com/6253873/donna-kelce-super-bowl-interview/), following recent reports of the pair spending time together. On X, Swifties started helping each other understand how the game is played for future reference, in case Swift starts attending more regularly between her Eras Tour dates and her fans, in turn, start following along to catch a glimpse of the pop star. One Swiftie uploaded a post that broke the game into the simplest possible terms. Many of the replies were from confused Swifties asking questions about the sport. “Okay, so what’s a down?” one person asked. Users asked questions like, “What’s a field goal” and “Do you throw the ball or run with it?” > [](https://twitter.com/holygroundsound/status/1706042600556274105?s=20) **Read more:** [_The Staggering Economic Impact of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour_](https://time.com/6307420/taylor-swift-eras-tour-money-economy/) The original poster added a comment to the thread: "I regret to inform everyone who is giggling at this that we have been made to watch football for Taylor like 4 times this year, and I tweet this every time.” They also clarified that, “We are simply watching for Taylor Swift’s lil reactions. No one who doesn’t plan on watching regularly needed to know any of that other stuff.” > [](https://twitter.com/holygroundsound/status/1706129034709524652?s=20) > [](https://twitter.com/nhlella/status/1706073184553030024?s=20) Fans are also calling this new period in her romantic history the “American Revolution” because the last person Swift was allegedly romantically involved with was The 1975’s Matty Healy. Healy is from the U.K., whereas Kelce was born and raised in Ohio. “No more ugly British men… Truly, this is the American Revolution.” > [](https://twitter.com/MarlowNYC/status/1706068931314622484) Other Swifties are questioning their relationship to the sport now that Swift might be attending more games. “Do I, a Taylor Swift fan, have to care about football now?” one person posted on X. Someone else seemingly coined the hashtag #FootballTaylorsVersion, in reference to the singer-songwriter’s [project of rerecording her old albums](https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atime.com+eras+tour&rlz=1C5GCEM%5FenUS1068US1068&oq=site%3Atime.com+eras+tour&gs%5Flcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBggAEEUYOzIGCAAQRRg7MgYIARBFGDrSAQgyNDA2ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#:~:text=Taylor%20Swift%20Is,%E2%80%BA%20Entertainment%20%E2%80%BA%20Music) to regain the master rights, and calling them all “Taylor’s Version.” > [](https://twitter.com/alexandergold/status/1706052200349442273) > [](https://twitter.com/shimmeringtay13/status/1706242694736228812) In July, the Chiefs tight end said on his podcast that [he had attempted to give Swift](https://themessenger.com/entertainment/football-star-travis-kelce-tried-to-give-taylor-swift-his-number) his phone number on a friendship bracelet (a [common accessory](https://www.billboard.com/lists/taylor-swifts-eras-tour-friendship-bracelets/) brought to her Eras Tour shows) but wasn’t able to. [_The Messenger_](https://themessenger.com/entertainment/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-quietly-hanging-out-source-exclusive) reported earlier in September that the two were seen “hanging out” and when Kelce appeared on _The Pat McAfee Show_ podcast, he invited Swift to come watch one of his games. [According to _PEOPLE_](https://people.com/taylor-swift-leaves-with-travis-kelce-post-game-source-says-of-course-she-accepted-invite-7974052?utm%5Fcampaign=peoplemagazine&utm%5Fcontent=new&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=twitter.com&utm%5Fterm=6510f6c2a28487000110b5e3), a source said that she is “very focused on work right now and hanging out with her girlfriends.” (She does, after all, have more than 80 shows around the world on a tour that is slated to run through November of 2024.) However, the source says, “Travis invited her to the game, and of course she said 'yes.’ She thought it was a fantastic way to spend a Sunday.” > [](https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1706111785579823458?s=20) There hadn’t been public confirmation of the maybe-possibly budding romance before Swift was seen cheering on the Chiefs with Kelce’s mother. After the game, Swift and Kelce were seen leaving the stadium together in [a video posted to X](https://x.com/PopCrave/status/1706111785579823458?s=20). ## Transcript Really my whole career has been a series of case studies, the fans and some Bruce, Springsteen Madonna Prince Paul McCartney. After you've done your 15th case study you start to say well you know the case studies is a generalizable but well. Okay there's some commonalities here. Parasocial is defined as non reciprocated. I know you, you don't know me back, a pair of social, interaction is what happens while you're consuming media, think of yourself at home, watching a sporting event and the guy just dropped the ball, and you're sitting there yelling at him, for being an idiot for dropping the ball. That's a social interaction. That's watching Stephen Colbert, and he's talking to me and I'm talking back. I know he can't hear me, but I feel like, because he's talking to the audience somehow I should respond. Now, the pair of social interactions during media consumption, if I walk away from the media and I'm still thinking about the person I'm talking about what I would have done. If I'd been that character in that movie or maybe I'm thinking about what I would have said that person that would have been better than what they said. Her social attachment is when I derive Comfort from that person most often through their work. They interviewed once Josh Groban fan who had stage 4 cancer, and she said, I don't go to my chemotherapy without my iPod with my Josh Groban. Music, it makes me feel better being in the time were born or sort of metaphorically, hardwired to be attracted to the familiar faces and voices of other people. And if you look particularly what happens in digital media, and internet media, there's a Tennessee when you find someone whose work you like to sort of do this immersion in their work, so that you're looking at them, their face during their voice over and over and over and over. And when you think about that much exposure to the station voice of a person, This is what is the foundation for what we call attachment? Back in the 1980s, when they began to study this, the two main kinds of parasocial relationships and so poppers and intended to be a middle-aged to elderly population. Were forming those attachments. And what the research has shown, is that one of the things of her social relationship can do is to mitigate loneliness. So that person who's may be socially isolated because they're elderly and their family, never meet visits them have formed a social Shoes that are meaningful and it helps them feel less isolated. And then if they have access to the internet, then they can do all these other things we've already talked about, which is not only reach out to the celebrity, but more commonly, reach out to other fans. Besides the lack of reciprocity, I know them, they don't know any back, there's usually a difference in status. So they're at a higher status than you are. And you heard of the pair of social thing can be that you aspire to that their state is the convention. She was the first woman in space and she got on stage with Michelle Nichols from Star Trek. The Original Series and said, I saw the shell Nichols is Lieutenant Uhura on the bridge of the Enterprise. And I thought I could be there in space. There, I am. I represent it. I met so many young people during the Michael Jackson study, who told me that they realized, they could become an Entertainer. After they saw the Jackson 5 on Ed Sullivan, I had fans that interview. Where is the business who were in Hollywood working and entertainment? Who said this is where I realized I could do that. I had these models of these five young men who are doing it very well and it was meaningful to me because they look like me. Listen to development and lessons in general. 10 to number one become focused and intense about things and also did not always show the best judgment. The upside of that is that if they're developmentally not ready for a real relationship, there in a social relationships, have sex with them or whatever, there's no danger that if you're a teenager and you know that I have a crush on this person and it's not going to get complicated. I actually followed some Michael Jackson Bad Tour 1988 and I saw them again twenty years later and every one of these people have gone on to have a positive normal life and they were among the people that were Maybe they were following him around, maybe they were really, really into him but that it's for the temperature, warm feeling they had about, I haven't been a fan and what those experiences represented. So I do think that that, you know, there is the potential if kids get, you know, in over their heads. 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