Need another sign that Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are simply meant to be together or “Tayvis” or besties or whatever it is they are?
How about this: the Kansas City Chiefs star tight end just spent Week 5 dealing with both a gnarly-looking sprained ankle and a needless dig from Aaron Rodgers the exact same way.
By … shaking it off.
How’s that song go again?
“Players gonna play, play, play, play, play
“And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate (haters gonna hate)
“Baby, I’m just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
“I shake it off, I shake it off.”
Swift may sing those words when she resumes The Eras Tour but it’s Kelce who’s living them word for word right now in front of our eyes.
Kelce’s day — and maybe season — appeared to be over late in the second quarter of the Chiefs’ 27-20 win at Minnesota on Sunday when he went down awkwardly without being touched and limped off the field, slamming his helmet and heading down to the locker room.
Kelce didn’t return after halftime with his teammates but emerged from the tunnel just before the second-half kickoff. After standing on the Chiefs’ sideline for their first drive, he returned to action and played a key role in Kansas City’s fourth consecutive win.
Kelce corralled a trio of big catches from Patrick Mahomes on a touchdown drive that gave K.C. a 27-13 lead, including the 4-yard reception in the end zone after his leaping, 14-yard grab withstood a Minnesota challenge.
“Pretty amazing,” coach Andy Reid said of Kelce’s Willis Reed moment, which came 48 hours after Kelce shook off Rodgers’ anti-jab digs with equal aplomb.
Proving he doesn’t just have Swift’s attention nowadays, Kelce was the target of Rodgers, the notorious anti-vaxxer who is recovering from an Achilles tear in his Jets debut and took a dig at the Chiefs star tight end out of the blue last week, poking fun at Kelce’s promotion of flu and updated COVID-19 vaccines.
Rodgers said during his appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” that the Jets’ 23-20 loss to Kansas City in Week 4 was a moral victory in “that we hung with the champs and that our defense played well, and Pat didn’t have a crazy game, and Mr. Pfizer, we kind of shut him down. He didn’t have his crazy impact game.”
