While the skies above Gillette Stadium are currently clear, forecasters predict showers during today’s game between the New England Patriots and the Kansas City Chiefs. But rain in Foxborough, Massachusetts is nothing new for the Chiefs’ most famous fan: Taylor Swift, who is at the game today to support boyfriend/Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and made headlines a few months ago during her storm-plagued Eras Tour show there.
Swift spent the majority of the week in New York, celebrating her 34th birthday with a slew of A-list pals—except for Kelce, who stayed in Kansas City to prepare for his team’s next game. Taylor Swift’s Jets, a jet-tracking Instagram account, reports that she left the city this morning, landing less than an hour later at Rhode Island’s TF Green airport, not far from Swift’s Watch Hill mansion.
Instead of going to that house, she’s going to the same stadium that soaked her last summer. “Last night we all danced together in the rain for THE ENTIRE 3.5 HOUR SHOW in foxy Foxborough, MA!!,” Swift wrote on Instagram about a May Eras Tour stop at Gillette Stadium. “We’ve had rain shows at Gillette Stadium before, but this was a full-on deluge that never let up.”
“It was pretty impressive,” Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said of the tumultuous performance. “She’s tough, man, she just stood out there and played right through it.”
Swift was dressed for the weather at that tour stop, but today she’s off the clock and dressed for the elements. She arrived at the stadium wearing a cozy, ski-style Chiefs hat and a voluminous black coat, as captured by social media users. She later removed her coat to reveal a grey Chiefs sweatshirt as she sat in a box with her father, Scott Swift, stylist Ashley Avignone, fellow WAG Brittany Mahomes, and other fans.
That drenched tour stop occurred more than two months before Kelce famously “very adorably put me on blast on his podcast.” Swift expressed his desire to woo her. “We started hanging out right after that,” Swift says, and the relationship made its public debut in September, when she attended her first Chiefs game.
in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on December 17, 2023. GETTY IMAGES/MADDIE MEYER
Swift’s attendance at games has since become a cottage industry for publications and oddsmakers, though the latter has grown less concerned with her presence as the Chiefs have lost the last two games she’s attended (against the Green Bay Packers and the Buffalo Bills). Swift is a remarkable talent, an economic and social force, and Time’s Person of the Year, but she cannot control game-changing decisions made by NFL officials.
The Chiefs are hoping that their fortunes will turn this weekend. If they lose today, it would be the team’s first three-game losing streak since 2014, as well as a blow to their pride. After all, this game was originally scheduled for tomorrow night but was moved to Monday Night Football due to what Sports Illustrated describes as “the Pats’ dismal season.” To lose to the team with “the worst record in the AFC” would be a travesty.
Even though the NFL season is coming to an end, this will not be your last chance to see Swift at a Chiefs game, as her Eras tour will not resume until February 7, 2024. On Christmas Day, the Chiefs will face the Las Vegas Raiders at 11 a.m. ET, and on New Year’s Eve, they will face the Cincinnati Bengals at 2:25 p.m. ET. Will Swift forego her vacation to support Kelce? We’ll see what happens next weekend.
