Before Travis Kelce, Another Football Player Tried to Get a Date With Taylor Swift

Travis Kelce isn’t the only football player who had their eye on Taylor Swift. Another athlete once tried to “shoot their shot’ with the pop star.

Any NFL fan who’s been following Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s romance this season may remember hearing the tight end explain how the whole thing started. During an episode of his New Heights podcast with his brother Jason Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs player revealed that he attended a Swift concert months earlier and tried to give her his number then.

Any NFL fan who’s been following Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s romance this season may remember hearing the tight end explain how the whole thing started. During an episode of his New Heights podcast with his brother Jason Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs player revealed that he attended a Swift concert months earlier and tried to give her his number then.

In addition to the Chiefs star, a few other players took in Swift’s Eras Tour over the spring and summer including New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers. The signal-caller appeared to be quite the fan as videos circulated of him singing and dancing the night away. Well, turns out he isn’t the only Swiftie in his family.

Aaron’s brother, Jordan Rodgers, is too. Aaron’s sibling, who also played in the NFL for a bit during stints with the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Miami Dolphins, talked about “shooting his shot” with the singer while he was in college.

When Jordan was the quarterback at Vanderbilt University, he said he would leave the pop star tickets to the Commodores’ home games in Nashville.

“She lived two blocks away from the stadium,” Jordan told Us Weekly.

However, unlike with Kelce, Swift didn’t accept Jordan’s offer to go to any games.

“No, she never showed up,” he admitted. “So I shot my shot back in the day.”

Jordan also revealed that he was attending Swift shows long before she was selling out stadiums all over the world.

“I was going to her concerts when she was playing in front of 200 people in the middle of nowhere, Northern California when I was in high school,” he recalled. “I have the picture to prove it. I met her afterward — [she had her] crimped hair, first album. That’s me, I’m a Swiftie.”

Years after “shooting his shot” with Swift, Jordan took a chance at finding love on reality TV.

He was a contestant on Jojo Fletcher’s season of The Bachelorette and ended up winning her heart. They dated for several years and tied the knot on May 14, 2022.

It was also during that season that Jordan went public about his family’s feud with Aaron explaining that he and his parents are estranged from the NFL superstar.