If you heard what sounded like a sonic boom on Sunday night, it might have been the sudden gasp from thousands of Taylor Swift fans after Travis Kelce came down HARD.
Swifties around the country watched and held their breath during the tense Sunday Night Football moment. The all-star tight end caught a pass and ran for a great gain, almost scoring — until he was hit and flipped upside down. Shockingly he came down RIGHT ON HIS HEAD! Even in slow motion, he seemed to hit the ground directly, in exactly the wrong way. The way that guys get paralyzed. Think we’re exaggerating? Watch for yourself!
— media (@ver__media) October 13, 2025
Yeah, pretty scary stuff! There was a moment he was lying there that Kansas City Chiefs fans and Swifties alike were frozen in suspense.
Thankfully, Trav is, as he’s shown many times before, practically indestructible. The real problem is when other people run into him. Everyone should have been worried about GEHA Field getting hurt!
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But for a moment it was a real scare. And it came right after Tay was ridiculed for calling what her man does “dangerous”! Last week she told Jimmy Fallon she didn’t want to do the Super Bowl Halftime Show while Travis was playing because it felt silly to focus on a performance while he was at such risk:
“Can you imagine if he’s out there every single week putting his life on the line, doing this very dangerous, very high pressure, high intensity sport — and I’m like, ‘I wonder what my choreo should be?’”
She said she was “too locked in” watching him play to think about something else.
The Blank Space singer was made fun of by tons of fans for being overly dramatic about it, with critics teasing:
“Life on the line?? He plays football sweetie”
“What do you mean putting his life on the line? It’s football not basic training”
“She made it sound like his fiancée is in the front lines… the arrogance and the disconnect from reality is absolute.”
Can you imagine if all those people mocked her so dismissively and then Trav was seriously hurt just days later? Perish the thought…
But for a moment, the Swifties who have become fans of Trav and Chiefs were really, truly shook. Just take a look at some of the
“#TravisKelce had a great game tonight but sweet Jesus this play had my heart in my throat, this was scary!”
“God that hurt my neck just watching”
“That was a much harder landing than i originally thought. Football is dangerous.”
“And people were talking s**t about her saying ‘putting his life on the line’
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“can we try to NOT BREAK the neck next time i am begging”
“That was scary. His neck and lower back too! Ouch!”
“This is what tay means when she said put his life on the line”
“People literally bashing Taylor Swift for saying she’s afraid when he plays, trying to pretend doing so is somehow an insult to “the troops,” (none of whom were likely dropped on their heads today btw).”
“Someone get my besties man a Tiger Balm patch stat! I know his neck and spine screaming!!!!
“And this is why Taylor is worried about the guy she loves who’s battling on the field”
“HE HAS A WEDDING TO ATTEND PEOPLE PLEASE LET’S KEEP HIM ALIVE”
And that wasn’t the only hit that had the girls concerned! There were two plays when Trav was more of collateral damage from other player collisions:
Travis Kelce #chiefs
Defender lands on the outside of his left ankle creating an eversion moment. Often a mechanism for a high ankle sprain, clearly minor being that he’s already back in. His body was falling forward before contact which reduced some of the rotational forces pic.twitter.com/jqEqxBTZMl
— Tom Christ, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT (@FantasyInjuryT) October 13, 2025
absolutely no reason for them to do that to him but alright! pic.twitter.com/66jNOnuzfe
— em (@fclsegd) October 13, 2025
“he’s 36 years old, careful omg”
“He is my best friend’s fiancé!!! Please be careful
“And people thought she was over reacting mind you she was in the right”
What do YOU think, Perezcious readers? Was Taylor reasonable to be so scared for her man’s safety?
[Image via CBS/NBC/NFL/X/ESPN/YouTube.]