Something really weird happened last night. While no one was paying any attention to the Emmys, football season was in full swing. The Eagles played the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium, in a rematch of the Super Bowl earlier this year. The Eagles once again beat the Chiefs, and Travis Kelce is being blasted for screwing up a pass or something (I magically still don’t know anything about football). Travis was really upset, and he was screaming and throwing his helmet. People were really going in on him online.
So, that was weird, but so is this: Taylor Swift was allegedly there, but no one caught sight of her and there were no photos or cutaways to her during the game. For the past two football seasons, Taylor is a regular at games played at Arrowhead. She and her team work with Arrowhead security, and there’s almost always a little “stroll” in one of the stadium’s corridors where a couple of photographers can get pics of her outfit. As I said, that’s been the case for two years. But this year, for the Chiefs’ first home game of the season, Taylor didn’t do that. She apparently hid behind a screen on her way to the VIP box. Which… okay, maybe she didn’t feel like being photographed like that anymore. But they didn’t get any photos of her in the VIP box either?? What’s going on? People Mag swears that she was there, so I guess she just watched her fiance’s team lose from deep inside the VIP box.
People are immediately going with “pregnant.” Possibly, but I think there’s a much better chance that this was completely about her security. Taylor showed up late, mid-game as well.
I’m not a Taylor Swift fan. However, she has freely walked in and out of chief games no problem. Now she’s engaged to Travis Kelce. So why would they need to block people from seeing her? Enter or exit the game? I will tell you. She’s probably pregnant. @taylorswift13… pic.twitter.com/uSVO26AyGP
— Just Joe (@joeyjo35t) September 15, 2025
🚨| Better look at Taylor Swift arriving at the Chiefs game, hidden behind a wall. pic.twitter.com/PyM4BuqfTF
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I was quite pleased that there was no mention of her there. It was all about the football. So if she did come late good for her. She was there supporting her fiancée and she didn’t need to be seen to support him.
💯 agreed. Make it all about the football. The last game she went to our Felon in Chief couldn’t shut up about her and this past week he was saying that they need to beat the hell out of liberals. Plus the fact that she always has stalkers and Charlie Kirk was just saying she should submit to her future husband and become conservative.
I think it was about security – Kirk targeted her with his words and it would not surprise me to see his followers take a swipe at her. I also think that there was some criticism of Kelce last year (that he was distracted by this new level of celebirty) and maybe they decided that a lower profile at the games might help? IDK, but I do not blame her at all for being less visible.
Agreed Josephine. There’s a new shooting every day here. Any adult with a pulse can buy a weapon.
It’s up to the network if they decide make it all about the football – they choose to show her or not.
I agree with you Lucille, and I’m glad they chose NOT to show her. Not only to “keep it about the football” but I also think they WERE setting her up to be hated and berated by misogynistic, mean, men-in-mom’s-basements football fans by showing her so much, so good for them tapering off coverage. Taylor should be able to enjoy her man’s team play and not have to read about how much people think it sucks she’s there like everyone else. Better for her security, too. She was getting a lot of threats and dealing with stalkers even before the Felon In Chief made it his business to hate her.
It’s obvious the privacy was worked out beforehand. Taylor, her team, or the Chiefs probably negotiated the network silence. It had gone way overboard and was polarizing, this is much better.
Gotta be about security. The risk to people around her (physically) is so high as well.
That drew far more attention to her than anything else. I guess she can’t win.
Meanwhile, my team is 2-0. Go Bills.
My husband’s favorite player is Josh Allen, so behind the Dolphins (who are 0-2 and my home team), it’s nice to have one winning team in my top two.
She literally cannot win. If she skips the game, she and her fiance have broken it off. If she attends the game, she’s taking all the attention and how dare she. I am not a Taylor apologist, but let the woman be in this situation. Nevermind that suddenly the radical liberal agenda is the cause of all evils, and our dear leader and Kirk had identified Taylor as public enemy #1.
We saw their engagement photos a few weeks ago. There’s no way that she’s visibly pregnant.
Go Bills!
Chiefs fan, here – born and bred. And while my home team saddens me, i truly believe the best team should win. This is Josh Allen’s year. Go Bills!
Yay! Go Bills! It was such a satisfying football Sunday.
I don’t watch football much anymore (between racism of blackballing Kaepernick and the insane rates of CTE among former players- it just feels wrong to watch)
But i have been rooting for the Bills since the 1990s, when they had that fantastic team that won the AFC Championship 4 times.
They deserve a superbowl win, and i am rooting for them.
To be fair, i would love to see Detroit win one too.
All in with the Bills Mafia and I’m a Giants fan
If she was visibly pregnant, then attending the game like that just put more of a focus on her.
My guess is security; I would be not be surprised if there has been an increase in threats against her both after the engagement (because people are crazy) and Charlie Kirk.
ETA but I also feel like if security was that big a risk then she might have just stayed home – so IDK.
Security makes more sense than suddenly visibly pregnant (which I consider less likely)
Right, because didn’t they go out to eat recently and there were photographs from that and she didn’t look pregnant?
that said, I do feel bad for her because if she eats a burrito and then goes out in public people will assume she’s pregnant lol.
That was something she talked about in miss Americana. The fear of eating something and having people talk about her weight (which is why she had an eating disorder). She also shows alcoholic drinks in pics (may or not be drinking) but it’s intentional to stop bump watch. She strikes me as a pg post wedding but who knows. Either way with crazy town US at the moment, I don’t blame her
It is probably for security reasons although. I find a screen to be the dumbest thing because there are people who have to roll it out as she is walking. So they can get shot I guess but not her.
I also don’t understand why the stadium doesn’t have a more secure way to get to the VIP suites without being out in public so much.
If it was security she could put out a message and say that thanks to the right wing violence she’s getting way more threats. Maybe remind people what is going on.
that’s why i’m scratching my head over this. If it was about an increase in threats (which I can see happening for a few reasons), a rolling bulletproof screen just seems…..I don’t know. an odd choice. But I can’t think of what would have been better. a pope mobile style golf cart? But it also seems she really did not want to be seen.
but, I am not a security expert so maybe this was the best they could come up with especially if it was short notice.
I think the idea is that if Taylor is a target, any would be assassins would be attempting to shoot her, not the many people around her (she clearly had a team of people in front of and behind her all also behind the screen, and then there were the people rolling the screens outside of that). I mean, who knows what anyone willing to kill anyone really thinks, but typically assassins aren’t necessarily mass shooter situations, so those other folks are less likely to be shot at?
And I think if she DID make a comment right now about right wing violence, that would (sadly) just enflame these horrible right wing nuts frothing at the mouth to foment violence. Taylor Swift speaking about it right now would make her an even bigger target of their hatred.
If she’s doing the for security- then no she shouldn’t release a statement to make it worse. That would just increase her danger not to mention those in her life. She’s about to have very young nieces. She isn’t going to risk anyone’s safety to make a statement.
It was for security purposes. Trump was posting that he hates her a few weeks ago, and Kirk was killed immediately after his video telling Taylor to submit to Travis. I imagine threats against her are up right now, and they didn’t want her to be seen.
Yeah, I think what changed for Taylor this time was the recent political news. I don’t blame her! I might be a little freaked out too. I also think that’s why they didn’t cut to her during the game. FWIW, I saw a pic of her in the box and she was wearing her engagement ring.
Pregnant? Or enhanced security because she’s in a building full of MAGA after what happened last week…? In either case, staying home might be the safest option (though she shouldn’t have to – but here we are).
This – she’s in a stadium full of MAGA-assholes. Safety first!
It’s said that the screen was bulletproof. I don’t know if that’s true but she obviously did not want to be seen.
Kind of disappointed so many people went to “pregnant” –
Taylor’s a planner, I’m betting she waits (assuming she wants kids)
And to those who are like- I hate when they show her, focus on the game – I want to ask, why is it only her who gets that treatment and not male celebs- everybody work on their internalized misogyny, when she is shown it generally is for a few seconds, a few times, and adds up to less than 2 minutes of a 3 & 1/2 hour game.
I’m saddened the Nazi/whire supremacists have taken over our country, are running it into the ground, disappearing people, and still are killing each other and THE REST OF US- (RIP Melissa Hartman). So that now Taylor has to be concerned about right wing snipers.
Sucks fee her, sucks for us all.
This part. ONLY Taylor being shown for less than a minute total is a problem, but anyone else (or the endlesssssss ads for gambling, beer, and trucks) is fine. Okay.
I really don’t know. I saw a clip, her mom and her brother were with her, and the creator was saying she went to the Hunts box? And something about the suites are going to get mirrored coating so cameras can’t see into them?
Travis had a pretty good game as far as yardage when I was watching. Mahomes threw a pass that was low and away, and Travis tried to grab it one handed (the only way he could’ve because of how far away), and it bounced off his hand and into the Eagle player. That shouldn’t have ended all offense, I get that a lot of their success has been because he makes catches like that, but a team can’t be counting on those plays going their way.
Travis is the only player on offense to put up decent stats the last two games. People coming for his neck is ridiculous, but sports fans are nothing if not hyper-reactionary. One loss: tear it down, fire everyone. One win: and here’s why we’re winning the Super Bowl.
People were on Threads speculating it was due to security after the Charlie Kirk assassination. I have no idea what the link is between Taylor and Charlie Kirk, I had no idea this guy existed until he was murdered. But upon Googling it looks like he mentioned her “submitting” to Travis and to have a “ton of babies” a few weeks ago and also to “reject feminism.” My guess is her team is on high alert in case any MAGA idiots get any ideas and blame the assassination on her, even if she has nothing to do with it. She’s become a political lightning rod recently through no fault of her own. I’m really glad her Eras tour is over because I’d be nervous to be still performing out in the open on stage so soon after that. And who knows, she may have received a credible threat we aren’t aware of.
I cringe so hard when the default is “SHE”S PREGNANT!” My thought was unfortunately a lot darker and that is with the orange nazi broadcasting his unwarranted hatred of her and the recent assassination of an influencer, who knows what kind of threats she’s receiving. Better safe than sorry. We’ll all live without a fashion walk.
I think this is a security measure. She was getting death threats from maga before everything happened no way it hasn’t gotten worse.
Trump wants the violence he told the Utah governor to stop asking people to go together and settle differences without violence. So yeah Taylor probably would be in demented maga brains the best target for revenge. It makes no sense but they aren’t bright.
Y’all are forgetting the lengths she went to in order not to be seen before she launched whatever-that-album-was (Reputation?). She was having her bodyguards schlep her in and out of her apartment in a giant suitcase. The new album comes out soon, yes? I’d say the odds are good that this is her doing a reset before the next “era”. There may be a side benefit of making her feel more safe in the current climate (aka shitshow) we find ourselves in, so whatever she needs to do to live her life I guess.
I mean, is it really worth it when you have to use a dozen people to hide your arrival and departure …
I’d consider staying home and watching on a giant expensive tv of which I’m sure they own the best.
This wasn’t the way to not get attention as now rumors are rampant …
If security was the reason, this country is so lost when the fiancee of a football player has to hide behind a screen because of threats against her from right-wing MAGA idiots.
Can’t the NFL clear the place before Taylor is using it?? It isn’t like a long distance. I doubt this is a public place, since we only see photographers there, no fans. Like others said, if this was for security, it definitely caused more attention to her attendance.