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Topics: NFL, American Football
Ryan Baldi
Taylor Swift was in attendance on Monday night to watch boyfriend Travis Kelce produce his best performance of the 2024 NFL season so far.
Kelce's Kansas City Chiefs beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 30-24 in an overtime thriller at their home arena, Arrowhead Stadium.
The Chiefs, led by superstar quarterback Patrick Mahomes, are the reining back-to-back Super Bowl champions and are in pursuit of an unprecedented third successive title this season.
Their victory over the Buccaneers extended their unbeaten start to the campaign, with an NFL-best 8-0 record through the first nine weeks of the campaign.
On an individual level, 35-year-old Kelce – who is arguably the greatest tight end in NFL history – had been enduring a sub-par season. But the veteran pass-catcher produced a stellar display on Monday night, logging a career-high 14 receptions for 100 yards.
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Also in attendance at Arrowhead was Tavia Hunt, the wife of the Chiefs' billionaire co-owner Clark Hunt.
The Hunt family have grown close with Swift since the pop sensation began dating Kelce. Last year, the pair's daughter Ava was pictured with Swift in New York. And for Swift's 34th birthday, the Hunts gifted the singer a Judith Leiber microphone purse worth almost $5,000.
Posting to her instagram account ahead of Monday's game, Tavia Hunt shared an image of a mysterious gift she was apparently to present to swift that evening.
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The picture showed a red box decorated in Chiefs insignia, wrapped in a gold bow and addressed to Swift.
The post sparked speculation online among Swift fans over what the Hunts were giving the platinum-selling songwriter this time.
Ahead of the kick-off, Kelce's brother, Jason Kelce issued a statement in response to a viral video of him smashing the phone of a fan who'd made disgusting remarks about the Chiefs star and Swift over the weekend.
Speaking during an appearance as an analyst on ESPN's Monday Night Football, the retired former Philadelphia Eagles centre said: "Everybody has seen what happened," Kelce said. 'I'm not happy with anything that took place, not proud of it. A heated moment to greet hate with hate and I don't think that's a productive thing, I really don't. I don't think it's the right way to go about things.
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"In that moment I fell down to a level I shouldn't have. The bottom line is I try to live my life by the golden rule, I've always been taught to treat people with common decency and I'm going to try and keep doing that moving forward. Even though I fell short this week."