Having a boyfriend is all well and good, but if you don’t have a posse of loyal friends to attend his work functions with, are you really doing love right? Taylor Swift certainly seems to be, as her relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has only enriched her relationship with her army of besties. This year, Swift even summoned her football-watching girl squad for a fashion-forward girl dinner, at which she appeared in a ’70’s-tastic Almost Famous-esque coat; while Lively and
Below, find a guide to the people who have made Swift’s NFL journey such a sight to see, from 2023 up to Super Bowl LIX:
Ice Spice
After appearing onstage with Swfit during her Eras Tour, at the singer’s side during the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards, and as one of Swift’s guests at the 2024 Super Bowl, the Bronx-born, Y2K and vintage-loving rapper was filmed entering the Caesars Superdome stadium in New Orleans with Swift at Super Bowl LIX on Sunday, February 9.
The Haim sisters
When Taylor Swift invites your entire family to watch her boyfriend play in the Super Bowl with her, you know you’ve made it—and that was exactly the case for Alana, Este, and Danielle Haim this Sunday at Super Bowl LIX. That said, it wasn’t Alana’s first rodeo: The 33-year-old musician was also spotted at Gillette Stadium with Swift (and Swift’s dad, Scott) to catch a game in December of 2023.
Ashley Avignone
Nashville-based stylist and designer Ashley Avignone, a longtime friend of Swift’s, has accompanied the singer to the Super Bowl for two years running; clearly, Avignone is a member of Swift’s inner circle if she’s on the perma-guest list for both the Super Bowl and sushi nights out.
Blake Lively
Lively has been a fixture at Chiefs games since Swift and Kelce started dating in 2023, even occasionally bringing husband Ryan Reynolds along to help cheer Kelce on. (Okay, maybe he wanted to go, but I prefer the narrative where football is “a girl thing” now and husbands and boyfriends have to be dragged along for the ride.)
Cara Delevingne
A) I’m obsessed with Delevingne’s football-watching attire (the red hat!), and B) I love knowing that she and Swift hung out at a Chiefs-Bills game in January 2024 along with most of Kelce’s immediate family. A friend you can bring around your boyfriend’s parents is one to keep, IMO.
Sophie Turner
Friends who tailgate together—and who let their friend crash in their empty apartment amid said friend’s divorce from a man the other friend once dated—stay together. Why leave a Chiefs-Jets game with your BF when you could make an exit with your bestie?
Sabrina Carpenter
Carpenter is perhaps my favorite of Swift’s football girlies, thanks in large part to the “Sportswatcher” shirt the “Espresso” singer wore to a Chiefs game with Swift back in October 2023. Carpenter first covered a Swift song back in 2009, so this is no fair-weather football friendship—they just have some sporty new hobbies now.
Brittany Mahomes
Legally, all football wives and girlfriends have to be friends, so the closeness between Swift and Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes’s wife, Brittany, makes perfect sense. The Mahomeses were allegedly big Swift fans before they even met the woman herself, so there’s clearly some spiritual alignment going on here.
Donna Kelce
It’s never a bad idea to get in good with the BF’s mom, something Swift seems to know well. She and Travis’s mom, Donna Kelce, have palled around at more than one of Travis’s games over the years.
Hugh Jackman
Yes, the Oscar and Tony winner is also lucky enough to be one of Swift’s game-day besties (which is really its own version of an EGOT). Jackman was spotted at a Chiefs game with Swift in October 2023, even sharing a cute selfie of the proceedings. Now that’s babygirl!
