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Travis Kelce<\/strong><\/a> has finally opened up about the early days of his relationship with Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/a>, revealing how their first date came to be \u2014 and the relatable fear he had afterward.<\/p>\n In an interview with The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> published on Monday, November 20, the Kansas City Chiefs player shared that he and Taylor, 33, had \u201calready kind of been talking\u201d before they met up in person for their first date in New York, so he wasn\u2019t nervous about finding a connection between them.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew we could have a nice dinner and, like, a conversation, and what goes from there will go from there,\u201d Travis, 34, said. His inner circle, on the other hand, was a bit nervous. \u201cEverybody around me telling me, \u2018Don\u2019t f\u2013k this up!\u2019 And me sitting here saying, \u2018Yeah \u2014 got it,\u2019\u201d he added.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t until after their initial date that he started to worry. As the media attention on the couple picked up, the football player feared he would say the wrong thing about the relationship and mess things up.<\/p>\n \u201cThat was the biggest thing to me: make sure I don\u2019t say anything that would push Taylor away,\u201d Travis continued.<\/p>\n Many Swifties and non-Swifties alike are very familiar with the story of how Travis and Taylor\u2019s relationship began \u2014 with a friendship bracelet<\/a>. The tight end revealed on his \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast with brother Jason Kelce<\/strong> in July that he had attended Taylor\u2019s Eras tour stop at Arrowhead Stadium earlier that month with the idea to give her a bracelet that had his phone number on it. However, he never got the chance to pass it off to her. Luckily, someone on Taylor\u2019s team decided to start \u201cplaying Cupid.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere were definitely people she knew that knew who I was, in her corner [who said], \u2018Yo! Did you know he was coming?\u2019\u201d Travis revealed, adding that he was then contacted by someone on Taylor\u2019s team to put the pop star in touch with him.<\/p>\n \u201cShe told me exactly what was going on and how I got lucky enough to get her to reach out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Dating rumors continued to swirl throughout September until Taylor all but confirmed the romance on September 24 with her appearance in the box at Arrowhead Stadium as the Chiefs played against the Chicago Bears. She cheered Travis on alongside his mother<\/a>, Donna Kelce<\/strong>. Like Travis, Donna, 71, was careful not to reveal too much in the beginning, describing her experience with Taylor as \u201cOK\u201d on The Today Show on October 6. Travis told WSJ<\/em> that Donna still kicks herself for coming across as too underwhelmed, but he reassures her that she handled the interview well.<\/p>\n Since the September 24 game, Taylor has been spotted at other matches. She and Travis also haven\u2019t been shy about their PDA while out on dates. He attended her Eras tour stop in Argentina on November 11, where she gave him a shoutout in her song \u201cKarma\u201d<\/a> and planted a kiss on his lips when she met him off stage after the show. With Taylor becoming more open about their romance, Travis has felt comfortable doing the same. In his interview, he called her a \u201cgenius\u201d and revealed that they share the same values.<\/p>\n \u201cHer team is her family. Her family does a lot of stuff in terms of the tour, the marketing, being around, so I think she has a lot of those values as well, which is right up my alley,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Donna can tell that her son is very happy with Taylor<\/a>.<\/p>\n