Sports analyst Bill Simmons has said that Taylor Swift is pregnant during an impassioned plea to Travis Kelce to end his Kansas City Chiefs career two games early.
It’s unclear if Simmons misspoke, is making an assumption about Kelce and Swift’s future or knows something that hasn’t been announced to the rest of the world yet. But he very clearly made the claim on his Sunday night show and has not yet moved to clairfy his comments.
Reflecting on Kelce playing for the Chiefs in an awful loss to Tennessee Titans on Sunday, he said: ‘It was officially a “feel bad for Kelce”. Guy’s a Hall of Famer, he’s getting married to Taylor Swift, having a kid with her, probably flies everywhere private, has private security everywhere he goes.
‘And he’s just kind of running around this f***ing Titans game, trying not to get hurt. Fake an injury. Just fake an injury and end the thing.’
Swift and Kelce announced their engagement in August this year and are expected to marry next summer in Rhode Island. Kelce was playing in Sunday’s game in Nashville despite the Chiefs not being able to make the playoffs after what has been a hugely disappointing campaign.
Swift was not there in Nashville, Tennessee – she does not typically travel to Kelce’s road games.
Taylor Swift is pregnant, sports analyst Bill Simmons said in a message to Travis Kelce
Simmons might have misspoken but he said the words loud and clear on his Sunday night show
The Chiefs play next on Christmas Day back at Arrowhead Stadium against Denver Broncos, and Swift does usually attend Chiefs home games. It could be Kelce’s last ever game at Arrowhead if he does retire once the season ends, which a growing number of people are expecting.
It comes amid heightening attention to wedding planning between the power couple. Earlier in December, it was reported that they are to marry on Saturday, June 13 – the date corresponding with Swift’s favorite number.
Speculation has also ramped up that Swift is transforming her Rhode Island mansion into her dream wedding venue.
As for the baby talk, last week Kelce’s sister-in-law Kylie opened up on how the Chiefs star is a doting uncle to his four nieces.
‘He’s exciting. He’s a fun guy, the king of funcles, really,’ Kylie said. ‘He’ll do anything to make them happy.
‘He wants to flip them, play with them, get on the floor, play Barbies. He’ll dance until they tell him to stop. It’s all of it.’
Meanwhile Kelce, 36, had a chance to shoot down speculation that he could walk away from the game when he spoke to Kansas City-based reporters at a Chiefs press conference on Friday.
But he refused to do so, instead insisting that he was committed to seeing out the season with the Chiefs despite having nothing to play for.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding datewas reportedly revealed earlier this month
‘I think I would rather just keep the focus of the media and everything on this team right now and all the conversations I have with the team and everything moving forward will be with them,’ Kelce said, when asked about whether he’s given much thought to his future.
‘I think it’s a unique time in my life and unfortunately I got three games left and I know when the season ends this year, typically we go into it and we don’t know when it’s gonna end and that’s the beauty of it.’
On top of the playoff failure, Kelce may also have played his last game with his close friend Patrick Mahomes. The quarterback tore his ACL in the loss to Los Angeles Chargers that officially ended the Chiefs’ chances of the playoffs.
After the Christmas Day game against the Denver Broncos, the Chiefs end the seaosn on January 4 in Las Vegas, against the Raiders.
From there, Kelce’s contract, worth $17million-a-year, expires and he will take time consider if he wants to keep playing.