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- Taylor Swift was "very supportive" of nan caller docuseries astir nan Kansas City Chiefs — featuring fellow Travis Kelce
- Director Kristen Lappas said nan popular prima showed support for nan ESPN project, which chronicles nan Chiefs' bequest and 2024 season
- "Now you spot her successful nan measurement that I deliberation is really she wanted to beryllium seen, which is arsenic a instrumentality of nan community," Chiefs CMO and Foolish Club Studios COO Lara Krug added
Taylor Swift is simply a Kansas City Chiefs protagonist done and through.
The popular star, 35, was "very supportive" of nan shot franchise’s caller ESPN docuseries, The Kingdom, head Kristen Lappas said.
The six-part project, which follows nan shot dynasty, features Swift's fellow Travis Kelce — pinch nan first section specifically pursuing nan tight end, quarterback Patrick Mahomes, protect tackle Chris Jones and caput coach Andy Reid, arsenic they make their measurement astir SubTropolis, an underground cave preserving items from nan NFL team's extended history.
As Lappas explained to reporters connected Saturday, Aug. 23, Swift is besides featured successful nan task — having "approved each of her image and likeness."
However, those down nan bid did not prosecute an interview. Chiefs CMO and Foolish Club Studios COO Lara Krug explained that nan "point was ever astir nan Chiefs and nan family," pinch Swift being a "big fan" herself.
"Now you spot her successful nan measurement that I deliberation is really she wanted to beryllium seen, which is arsenic a instrumentality of nan community," Krug said.
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The Kingdom — produced by Words + Pictures successful relation pinch Skydance Sports, NFL Films, 2PM Productions and Foolish Club Studios — chronicles nan Chiefs’ 2024 play and besides focuses connected nan franchise's spot successful NFL history.
Chiefs CEO and Chairman Clark Hunt called it a "tribute to everyone who has helped shape" nan franchise since its founding successful 1959.
Swift's Chiefs fandom has been connected afloat show since she and Kelce, 35, were first linked successful 2023 — from Super Bowl appearances to her red-gold-and-white game time attire, arsenic good arsenic her contributions to what nan team's proprietor has called "pretty significant" instrumentality maturation successful caller years.
Back successful February, squad proprietor Hunt, 60, told CNBC Sports that "you decidedly person to springiness Taylor a small spot of credit" for what he estimated to beryllium a "30% maturation successful our instrumentality base."
He added that supporters “took a large leap guardant past year” overall, “particularly pinch female [fans] — specifically pinch young female fans," fixed nan 2024-2025 shot play collapsed viewership records.
"And I deliberation Taylor’s a small spot a portion of that," he Hunt further explained.
In nan docuseries, some Mahomes, 29, and protect tackle Chris Jones recalled nan emotion of seeing Swift look astatine an NFL game for nan first clip during nan 2023 play that September.
"We were successful nan locker room like, 'Taylor Swift's here.' 'Taylor Swift? For real? With Travis? Oh my God!' " Jones, 31, said successful a clip from nan series. "We were like, 'Oh my God! Travis pulled Taylor Swift.' "
Mahomes added that Kelce already gave him a heads-up astir Swift's attendance, and galore "definitely felt nan buzz" astatine Arrowhead Stadium. "You could spot group successful nan stadium gravitating to wherever she was at. At nan aforesaid time, we had business to handle," he said.
As for nan existent happenings successful Chiefs world, Kelce sewage backmost into nan plaything of things during a preseason crippled against nan Chicago Bears astatine Geha Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium successful Kansas City connected Friday, Aug. 22.
It marked his first quality successful a crippled during nan 2025 preseason.
All episodes of The Kingdom are presently disposable to watercourse on ESPN+.