A Guide to the Famous NFL Girlfriends Not Named Taylor

Since she started “dating” the famous tight end Travis Kelce approximately one month ago, Taylor Swift has attended no fewer than four Kansas City Chiefs games, leading Swifities who never previously paid attention to the NFL to Google things like “what is a down?” and “tight end job explain?” Swift’s sudden transformation into an enthusiastic NFL WAG has drawn the kind of attention to the league that is normally reserved for the Super Bowl. Whether she is eating chicken fingers with ketchup and “seemingly ranch,” posing with Kelce’s mom, or debuting a secret handshake with Patrick Mahomes’s wife, Brittany Mahomes, in the Chiefs’ VIP box, the cameras can’t get enough of her.

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