Travis Kelce has a harder time catching references to Taylor Swift‘s lyrics than he does catching footballs.
During the Wednesday, January 21, episode of their “New Heights” podcast, Travis, 36, and his brother, Jason Kelce, shared fan reactions to their latest merch drop. “I can’t believe none of the new hoodies are called ‘New Heights of Man-Hoodie,’” one listener commented.
Neither Travis nor Jason, 38, had no idea what the fan was talking about until their intern came to the rescue, explaining the reference to Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl. (The podcast is name-dropped on the song “Wood.”)
“I didn’t understand that,” Travis confessed before teasing, “Taylor’s gonna kill me for not knowing that!”
Jason added that he and his brother “aren’t as good with Easter eggs” as Swift’s fans, and Travis agreed. “They sure know how to plant them and call them out,” the tight end said.
Swift, 36, dropped The Life of a Showgirl in October 2025. She announced the new record during an episode of “New Heights” two months prior, hinting that the songs captured the positive energy she’s had in her life since wrapping her Eras Tour.
“I’m so proud of it. … It just comes from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life. And so that effervescence has come through on this record,” she explained in August 2025.
Travis — who proposed to the pop star that same month — said the entire album was made up of “all bangers.”
When fans finally heard The Life of a Showgirl, it wasn’t hard to figure out where Travis could have been an inspiration, particularly on the song “Wood.”
“And baby, I’ll admit I’ve been a little superstitious / The curse on me was broken by your magic wand / Seems to me that you and me, we make our own luck / New Heights of manhood / I ain’t gotta knock on wood,” Swift sings.
The lyrics get even raunchier as the song continues, with Swift teasing, “Forgive me, it sounds cocky / He ah-matized me and opened my eyes / Redwood tree, it ain’t hard to see / His love was the key that opened my thighs.”
While promoting the album, Swift joked during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that “Wood” came from “a very innocent place” at first. “I don’t know what happened, man,” she admitted. “I got in there, we started vibing and I don’t know, I don’t know how we got here. But I love the song so much.”
Travis, meanwhile, has thrown his full support behind his fiancée’s album. “Let’s just give it up for Taylor real quick,” he said on an October 2025 episode of his podcast. “She’s done it again. She’s put the world on tilt. It’s been so fun to see everybody’s reactions, and we’ve had an absolute blast watching her go through all of her press tours or radios and all these talk shows.”
When Jason asked whether he felt “cocky” about the song “Wood,” Travis laughed. “I love that girl … Any song that she would reference me in that way,” he said.
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