Is love bigger than football?
We will learn the answer to that question next year, when the Super Bowl will be played on Valentine’s Day for the first time in NFL history.
It got us thinking about what could be the greatest final chapter of the world’s most famous football romance.
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What if Travis Kelce returned for one more season and helped the Chiefs win Super Bowl LXI, with superstar singer Taylor Swift, at SoFi Stadium for more than a spectator role?
Wouldn’t that be the ultimate love story for Valentine’s Day? Here’s how things would need to play out for that to happen
Kelce back with Chiefs?
Step one would require Kelce, 36, to hold off on retirement and play one more season with the Chiefs.
NFL free agency begins March 11, and that’s a date to remember because Kelce’s contract with the Chiefs expired at the end of the 2025 season. He would have to agree to a new deal with the Chiefs to play in the 2026 season.
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The good news is that the chances of Kelce coming back to the Chiefs seem to be growing.
Kansas City content creator and super-fan Jordan Johnson, aka @SwiftieinKC, is convinced Kelce will return for another season, “and the way things are looking Chiefs will definitely be at the Super Bowl,” she said.
The wedding
Under this dream scenario, the couple would already be married.
Their wedding could come sooner rather than later after the announcement on the New Heights podcast that the Kelce brothers would be taking a six-week break from production.
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That’s plenty of time for a wedding and honeymoon, right?
Chiefs in Super Bowl LXI
Is this a trend?
Check out how each Chiefs season has played out since 2019 and tell us that a Super Bowl return isn’t in the cards:
2019: The Chiefs won Super Bowl LIV
2020: The Chiefs lost Super Bowl LV
2021: The Chiefs missed the Super Bowl
2022-‘23: The Chiefs won Super Bowls LVII and LVIII
2024: The Chiefs lost Super Bowl LIX
2025: The Chiefs missed the Super Bowl
2026: ???
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Swift halftime show
Well before we’ll know if the Chiefs return to the Super Bowl, we’ll know who will be playing the halftime show.
There is a groundswell of support for Swift to be next year’s headliner.
After Bad Bunny performed this past Sunday, FanDuel Canada revealed its odds of who will perform at the next Super Bowl. Miley Cyrus (+310), Cardi B (+440) and Swift (+490) topped the list.
VegasInsider.com surveyed 3,000 NFL fans, Swift was named as the most-wanted headliner for the 2027 Super Bowl, with 7.6% of the vote, the website revealed this week. Elton John (5.3%) and Adele (4.3%) were right behind.
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Swift ranked as the No. 1 pick in 22 states and among 13 NFL team fandoms — including Chiefs, Ravens, Dolphins, Steelers and Seahawks. The website noted that Swift has been named the most wanted headliner in their halftime show survey every year for the past four years.
Swift said last year on “The Tonight Show” that she wouldn’t want to do the halftime show because she’s in fan mode during games, focused completely on Kelce.
But Heather Melcer, who hosts a weekly sports podcast for women fans called “S*BFF: She’s the Fan” called for Swift to headline next year’s halftime show. “I can already picture the arguments couples are going to get into. So I think the NFL has a massive opportunity and what better way to get the girls and the gays and the theys who don’t watch sports as excited to spend their Valentine’s Day watching a sportsball game than to have none other than the Taylor Swift headline the Super Bowl,” she said earlier this month on Instagram.
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“I mean, this is truly a massive opportunity for the league to do something that I feel like everybody has been waiting to happen for years, to have Taylor Swift headline the Super Bowl, and I’m not a Taylor Swift fan myself, but I think she’s an incredible artist and performer and I would love to see what she puts on for the Super Bowl, let alone having it be like the day that celebrates its love in the U.S. I think it would be so perfectly scripted. So, NFL, do your thing.”
Picture-perfect ending
OK, so in our dream Valentine’s Day scenario, we’ve got Kelce returning to the Chiefs, who advance to play in Super Bowl LXI — with Swift doing the halftime show.
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The perfect ending would be Kelce catching a touchdown pass from his close friend, KC quarterback Patrick Mahomes, on the final play as the Chiefs beat the Bears 33-30.
After celebrating on the field at SoFi Stadium, Kelce and Swift would ride off into the sunset.
Wouldn’t that be beautiful?
