It’s a love story, and Taylor Swift said yes.

The superstar and Travis Kelce announced the news on Instagram with this caption: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.” A five-photo carousel showed Swift and Kelce surrounded by flowers with Travis on one knee. She also included a close-up shot of the ring.

There’s no word on when the nuptials will take place.

“I was disappointed that she doesn’t talk before or after her shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs that she sings,” Kelce said to his brother, Jason.

Swift reached out to him after he put her on blast on “New Heights,” and the two began dating quietly until they went public when Swift attended the Chiefs vs. Bears game on Sept. 24, 2023. She attended 13 games that season culminating in Super Bowl 58 when Kansas City beat the 49ers.

Kelce visited Swift’s three plus hour show 14 times in Argentina, Australia, Singapore, France, England, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany and Indianapolis.

For the 2024 season, Swift only attended home games at Arrowhead Stadium turning the stadium tunnel into a personal runway. Photographers and reporters snapped pics of her looks from local vintage to designer label fashion. She attended Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans, and the heavily Eagles crowd booed her when she was shown onscreen for a few seconds.

Kelce hard launched their relationship on Instagram at the start of Kansas City training camp in July, posting a carousel of 13 photos with the caption, “Had some adventures this offseason, kept it 💯.” The main photo showed Kelce smiling ear-to-ear in a “Captain” gold anchor hat while Swift points to being his “First Mate.”

In a GQ profile released Aug. 12, Kelce gushed about his admiration for Swift’s work ethic, stamina and values. “When there is not a camera on us, we’re just two people that are in love,” Kelce said in the piece. “It can be perceived as something else because of how much it is talked about and how much we are tracked whenever we do go out, but I would say that it’s as normal of … It happened very organically even though from a media standpoint it was being tracked. It still happened very organically.”

Love lines stringing the eras

You could say Swift has been tying the invisible string between her and the Kansas City tight end since the very beginning. In her debut album on “Mary’s Song (Oh My My My),” she sings: “I’ll be eighty-seven; you’ll be eighty-nine / I’ll still look at you like the stars that shine / In the sky, oh my my my.” His number on the Chiefs is 87 and her album “1989” refers to the year she was born. The singer sang the song as part of a mashup to Kelce on July 6 in Amsterdam.

In the fairytale fantasies of “Fearless (Taylor’s Version),” she may have the proposal anthem of “Love Story,” where partners get on one knee at her concerts: “He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring / And said, ‘Marry me, Juliet / You’ll never have to be alone / I love you and that’s all I really know.’” But she also has “Fifteen.” When she performed this line on the Eras Tour, she smiled at the situational irony: “Well, in your life you’ll do things / Greater than dating the boy on the football team / I didn’t know it at fifteen.”

She mentions Kelce’s sport on “Mean” in “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)”: “And I can see you years from now in a bar / talking over a football game / with that same big mouth opinion / but nobody’s listening.” Although they both dated for years, her plea in the “Enchanted” bridge reflects them finding each other: “Please don’t be in love with someone else / Please don’t have somebody waiting on you.”

On her song “Stay, Stay, Stay” from “Red (Taylor’s Version),” she sings about throwing her phone at her boyfriend and “That’s when [he] came in wearing a football helmet / And said, “Okay, let’s talk” / And I said / Stay, stay, stay.”

In “Blank Space,” one of Kelce’s favorite songs, from “1989,” she croons: “‘Cause you know I love the players / And you love the game.”

For “Reputation,” she wrote: “Knew he was a killa” in “…Ready for It?” Kelce’s instagram is @killatrav. The first concert that Kelce attended since going public with Swift was Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she sang “End Game” to him as part of her surprise, acoustic set.

Although her seventh album “Lover” was written about her boyfriend of six years Joe Alwyn, a line from “Cornelia Street” is too perfect for the Arrowhead Stadium football player: “As if the street lights pointed in an arrowhead leading us home.”

“Folklore” and “Evermore” may be fantasy worlds invented by Swift during the corona virus pandemic, but some lyrics could still apply to her relationship with Kelce. Her song “Invisible String” is inspired by the red string of fate discussed in Japanese culture, a thread connecting friendships, family and true love. “I’m begging for you to take my hand / Wreck my plans / That’s my man.” No longer does she have to beg. He shows up, grabs her hand and does affect her schedule with football games, charity appearances and impromptu vacations to the Bahamas and Lake Como, Italy.

Kelce is the only guy Swift has changed her lyrics for, and it became a tradition on the Eras Tour. During her song “Karma” from “Midnights,” she switched “karma is the guy on the screen” to “karma is the guy on the Chiefs.” She performed the altered line 14 times when he was in the audience and twice when the Chiefs won a game during her concert.

Finally, cue the songs she may have written with him In mind: “The Alchemy” and “So High School” off “The Tortured Poets Department.” For her 87th show in Paris, she sang, “This happens once every few lifetimes,” to Kelce dancing in a suite above the stadium. The wristbands on every concert attendees’ wrist glowed bright red and the crowd roared. Swift made “The Alchemy” the closing credit song for the concert, replacing “You’re On Your Own Kid.” She also incorporated “So High School” into her set list for year 2 with moves inspired by Kelce’s end zone dances. In the lyric video, the football lights show a “TS” and “TK” in light pink at 0:43.