The NFL star reports of the nervousness before his marriage proposal and one or the other tear.
On August 26, 2025, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift announced their engagement in a photo gallery on Instagram. “Your English teacher and your sports teacher married,” joked the two stars in their post. In a new interview, the NFL star now tells how it was before the notorious knee.
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Travis Kelce: sweat and tears before the application
When Travis Kelce lasted Taylor Swift’s hand, he must have been quite nervous beforehand, as he now confesses. “The palms were welding wet,” explains Kelce Erin Andrews in an interview before the game of the Kansas City Chiefs against the Philadelphia Eagles.
Although he would rather have the story to tell his fiance for marriage proposal, the NFL star chats at least a little bit out of the sewing box. So he says in the “NFL on Fox” format: “I am an emotional type, so there were already a few tears here and there. It is still an exciting thing to this day, and I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with her.”
Kelce on Swift: “She makes me a better person”
When Andrews asks him how much happy Swift made the self -proclaimed “happiest man in the world”, Travis Kelce also replies: “She brought an enthusiasm and joie de vivre who made me a better man – and that makes me feel even more comfortable in my skin.”
The love story and the career path by Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
The couple met two years ago after a concert by the singer, now the two are planning their wedding next summer.
But there are great things not only in the private life of the stars, their careers also face important milestones. At the beginning of September, Kelce started his 13th NFL season, while Swift prepared for the release of her 12th album The Life of a Showgirl on October 3..

