{"id":91560,"date":"2024-04-20T19:28:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T19:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/20\/taylor-swifts-songs-with-sports-references-a-complete-guide\/"},"modified":"2024-04-20T19:28:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T19:28:07","slug":"taylor-swifts-songs-with-sports-references-a-complete-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/20\/taylor-swifts-songs-with-sports-references-a-complete-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift’s Songs With Sports References: A Complete Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/a> became a bonafide sports fan after she started dating NFL star Travis Kelce<\/strong> in summer 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cFootball is awesome, it turns out,\u201d Swift quipped to TIME<\/i><\/span><\/a> <\/i>in her December 2023 Person of the Year profile. \u201cI\u2019ve been missing out my whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rooting for Kelce<\/a>, a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, even seemingly inspired Swift as she wrote The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cThese blokes warm the benches \/ We\u2019ve been on a winning streak,\u201d she sings on \u201cThe Alchemy,\u201d<\/a> which was released in April 2023. \u201cHe jokes that \u2018It\u2019s heroin, but this time with an E\u2019 \/ \u2018Cause the sign on your heart \/ Said it\u2019s still reserved for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tRelated: <\/span>Every Time Taylor Swift Attended an NFL Game to Cheer for Travis Kelce<\/span><\/a>
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\n\t\t\tTaylor Swift has loved being the girl in the bleachers amid her blossoming romance with Travis Kelce. Swift made her first appearance at a Kansas City Chiefs game in September 2023, watching them defeat the Chicago Bears from the Kelce family\u2019s private suite. After cheering alongside the tight end\u2019s mom, Donna Kelce, she and Travis [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Swift went to 13 (coincidentally, her lucky number) of Kelce\u2019s NFL games during the 2023-2024 season, including Super Bowl LVIII in February 2024. After the Chiefs won the championship, Swift greeted him on the field<\/a> with a kiss and proclaimed that she had \u201cnever\u201d seen anything like the game outcome. Kelce, meanwhile, has frequently asserted that he\u2019s just grateful for her tireless support \u2014 even flying for 13 hours across oceans to make it in time.<\/p>\n

While fans gushed over Swift\u2019s first musical allusion to Kelce on TTPD<\/i>, it isn\u2019t the only time she\u2019s mentioned sports in verse. Us Weekly <\/i>revisits the pop star\u2019s sportiest lyrics below:<\/p>\n

\u2018Fifteen\u2019 (Fearless)<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cWell, in your life you\u2019ll do things \/ Greater than dating the boy on the football team \/ I didn\u2019t know it at fifteen.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Swift told her best friend<\/a> Abigail Anderson<\/strong> that she would be better off without the high school football star at the time, the Grammy winner\u2019s romance with Kelce later proved she could have both.<\/p>\n

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\u2018You Belong With Me\u2019 (Fearless)<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s cheer captain \/ and I\u2019m on the bleachers.\u201d<\/p>\n

This \u201cYou Belong With Me\u201d lyric, as well as its football-coded music video, says it all.<\/p>\n

\u2018Mean\u2019 (Speak Now)<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cAnd I can see you years from now in a bar \/ Talking over a football game \/ With that same big, loud opinion \/ But nobody\u2019s listening.\u201d<\/p>\n

In \u201cMean,\u201d Swift\u2019s critics are blasting her career while watching a game on TV.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tRelated: <\/span>Taylor Swift’s Chicest Game Day Styles at Travis Kelce’s Chiefs Games<\/span><\/a>
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\n\t\t\tTaylor Swift\u2019s game game outfits are the definition of trendy and festive. Swift started attending Kansas City Chiefs games in September 2023 amid her budding romance with tight end Travis Kelce. From official Chiefs gear to miniskirts and leather jackets, Swift has been supporting her beau in style. At the Chiefs vs. Los Angeles Chargers [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018Long Live\u2019 (Speak Now)<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cI said remember this feeling \/ I passed the pictures around \/ Of all the years that we stood there on the sidelines \/ Wishing for right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are the kings and the queens \/ You traded your baseball cap for a crown \/ When they gave us our trophies \/ And we held them up for our town.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLong Live\u201d has taken on a new life as Swift started dating Kelce, who did win the big championship trophy and held it up at the postgame celebration on the field.<\/p>\n

\u2018Stay Stay Stay\u2019 (Red)<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cThis morning I said we should talk about it \/ \u2018Cause I read you should never leave a fight unresolved \/ That\u2019s when you came in wearing a football helmet \/ And said, \u2018OK, let\u2019s talk.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

While \u201cStay Stay Stay\u201d is not about sports per se, Swit\u2019s then-boyfriend did wear athletic equipment during a fight.<\/p>\n

\u2018Blank Space\u2019 (1989)<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201c\u2019Cause you know I love the players \/ And you love the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lyric took on a new meaning<\/a> when Swift pointed at Kelce, a pro football player, when he came to see her Eras Tour <\/i>concert abroad.<\/p>\n

\u2018End Game\u2019 (Reputation)<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cI wanna be your endgame \/ I wanna be your first string \/ I wanna be your A-Team.\u201d<\/p>\n

It certainly didn\u2019t hurt that \u201cEnd Game\u201d was the very first surprise song that Kelce heard when he went to Swift\u2019s show<\/a> in Argentina.<\/p>\n

\u2018This Is Why We Can\u2019t Have Nice Things\u2019 (Reputation)<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cJump into the pool from the balcony \/ Everyone swimmin\u2019 in a champagne sea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swimming is a sport too, let Us remind you.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Miss Americana And The Heartbreak Prince\u2019 (Lover)<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cNow I\u2019m feeling hopeless, ripped up my prom dress \/ Running through rose thorns, I saw the scoreboard \/ And ran for my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scoreboards are an integral part of sporting events to keep track of points.<\/p>\n

\u2018London Boy\u2019 (Lover)<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cYou can find me in the pub, we are watching rugby with his school friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLondon Boy,\u201d notably penned about Swift\u2019s life across the pond<\/a> with now-ex Joe Alwyn<\/strong>, reminisced about what it was like for her to become a rugby fan.<\/p>\n

\u2018Afterglow\u2019 (Lover)<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cFighting with a true love is boxing with no gloves \/ Chemistry \u2019til it blows up, \u2019til there\u2019s no us.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Swift\u2019s sports of choice in her lyrics are primarily football and baseball, boxing gets its due in the Lover <\/i>ballad.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tRelated: <\/span>Athletes Who Have Defended Taylor Swift Attending NFL Games\u2028<\/span><\/a>
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\n\t\t\tGetty Images (3) Many professional athletes do not agree with the \u201cdads, Brads and Chads\u201d hating on Taylor Swift\u2019s attendance at NFL games. Swift has been a fixture at boyfriend Travis Kelce\u2019s Kansas City Chiefs games since September 2023, with the NFL occasionally showing her on the Jumbotron and on the broadcast when Kelce has [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018Willow\u2019 (Folklore)<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cLike you were a trophy or a champion ring \/ And there was one prize I\u2019d cheat to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many athletes, like Kelce, get trophies or championship rings when they win a big game. (Here\u2019s hoping they just don\u2019t lose them<\/span><\/a> like Travis\u2019 brother, Jason Kelce<\/strong>, at an April 2023 taping of his \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast.)<\/p>\n

\u2018Cowboy Like Me\u2019 (Evermore)<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cAnd the tennis court was covered up \/ With some tent-like thing \/ And you asked me to dance \/ But I said, \u2018Dancing is a dangerous game.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The Evermore <\/i>track has two sports metaphors for the price of one.<\/p>\n

\u2018Only the Young\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cYou did all that you could do \/ The game was rigged, the ref got tricked.\u201d<\/p>\n

The single from Swift\u2019s Netflix documentary, Miss Americana<\/i>, name-drops a referee.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Alchemy\u2019 (The Tortured Poets Department)<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cSo when I touch down \/ Call the amateurs and cut \u2019em from the team \/ Ditch the clowns, get the crown.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShirts off and your friends lift you up over their heads \/ Beer stickin\u2019 to the floor, cheers chanted \u2019cause they said. There was no chance trying to be the greatest in the league. Where\u2019s the trophy? He just comes runnin\u2019 over to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swift has watched Travis score multiple impressive touchdowns<\/a> (and countless other passes) when she attended his football games. Plus, Swift notably chugged a beer while watching Travis in February 2024\u2019s Super Bowl. Us<\/i> also notes that Swift watched Jason rip off his shirt<\/a> during one of Travis\u2019 playoff games weeks earlier.<\/p>\n

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\u2018So High School\u2019 (The Tortured Poets Department)<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cYou know how to ball \/ I know Aristotle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later in the song, Swift also mentions<\/a> \u201claughing in the middle of practice.\u201d (Early in her romance with Travis, she would secretly visit him at the Chiefs\u2019 Arrowhead Stadium during team practices.)<\/p>\n

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