Travis Kelce pays tribute to Taylor Swift in Chiefs locker room as his team close in on the Super Bowl

Travis Kelce tipped his chapeau to woman Taylor Swift aft an outstanding show led his Kansas City Chiefs squad to a 23-14 triumph implicit the Houston Texans connected Saturday. 

Kelce scored a touchdown and recorded 7 receptions for 117 yards successful an outstanding show by the choky extremity that signaled his instrumentality to apical signifier astatine the important signifier of the season.

After the game, the 35-year-old Kelce spoke of however important the bye week for the Chiefs was, allowing him to remainder past play erstwhile astir different teams were playing.

Asked if helium was feeling 25 again, Kelce referenced a deed azygous from woman erstwhile helium answered: '22 baby, 22'.

He added: 'Anytime you tin get steadfast and enactment connected the assemblage precocious successful the season, I americium going to instrumentality it.

'You saw maine bash it past year, I americium ever appreciative of the hard enactment we enactment in. 100 percent (I felt better). There is thing amended than playoff football, particularly present astatine Arrowhead.'

Swift was joined successful the stands by Caitlin Clark, with the duo sat successful Kelce's VIP suite to ticker the crippled against the Texans.

The Chiefs instrumentality adjacent Sunday night, wherever they volition play the victor of Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Ravens for a spot successful the Super Bowl.

Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes besides paid tribute to Kelce connected the tract astatine Arrowhead moments aft the triumph implicit the Texans was official. 

'You cognize eight-seven was gonna amusement up whenever [there's] a large clip moment, and helium did that,' Mahomes told ESPN's Lisa Salters aft the game.

'I mean, everybody was asking, 'Where's Travis Kelce at?' And I deliberation helium showed the satellite wherever he's at.'

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