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00:00 Travis Kelsey is filling in the blank spaces of his romance with Taylor Swift.
00:05 The Kansas City Chiefs' tight end and the Grammy winner were first rumored to be dating
00:09 over the summer and went public with their relationship in recent months.
00:13 Although the pair have kept the delicate details of their romance private, Travis is peeling
00:19 back the curtain of their love story, telling the Wall Street Journal how they first got
00:23 in touch after he failed to meet her during her Kansas City heiress tour stop.
00:27 "There were definitely people she knew that knew who I was in her corner who said, 'Yo,
00:32 did you know he was coming?
00:34 I had somebody playing Cupid.'"
00:36 And it wasn't long after that Travis got a text from Taylor herself.
00:41 "She told me exactly what was going on and how I got lucky enough to get her to reach
00:45 out."
00:46 Eventually, Travis says he found out some people in Taylor's family actually helped
00:51 get them together, saying, "She'll probably hate me for saying this, but when she came
00:56 to Arrowhead, they gave her the big locker room as a dressing room, and her little cousins
01:01 were taking pictures in front of my locker."
01:05 Travis did keep various details of their first date a secret, but he did admit he wasn't
01:10 that nervous.
01:11 "When I met her in New York, we had already kind of been talking, so I knew we could have
01:15 a nice dinner and, like, a conversation, and what goes from there will go from there."
01:21 If anyone was nervous, Travis told the outlet, it was his friends.
01:25 "Everybody around me telling me, 'Don't f--- this up,' and me sitting here saying,
01:30 'Yeah, got it.'"
01:32 But with dating the Midnight Songstress comes public attention, which the 34-year-old says
01:37 made him more guarded with the media.
01:39 "That was the biggest thing to me, make sure I don't say anything that would push Taylor
01:43 away."
01:44 Clearly, he hasn't pushed her away yet.
01:48 The two have been spotted out at dinner multiple times and they both support each other at
01:52 football games and concerts, but as far as the media attention goes, Travis says he's
01:57 still getting used to it.
01:59 "Obviously, I've never dated anyone with that kind of aura about them.
02:02 I've never dealt with it, but at the same time, I'm not running away from any of it.
02:07 The scrutiny she gets, how much she has a magnifying glass on her every single day,
02:11 paparazzi outside her house, outside every restaurant she goes to, after every flight
02:16 she gets off, and she's just living, enjoying life.
02:19 When she acts like that, I better not be the one acting all strange."
02:24 During the interview, Travis also gushed over Taylor, calling her "hilarious" and "a
02:30 genius" before revealing what they both have in common.
02:33 "Everybody knows I'm a family guy.
02:35 Her team is her family.
02:37 Her family does a lot of stuff in terms of the tour, the marketing, being around.
02:41 So I think she has a lot of those values as well, which is right up my alley."
02:47 Fans will have to keep an eye on how their love blossoms, but Travis says he's already
02:52 learned a lot from Taylor.
02:54 "I've never been a man of words.
02:57 Being around her, seeing how smart Taylor is, has been f***ing mind-blowing.
03:01 I'm learning every single day."
03:05 Travis isn't the only one opening up about his relationship with Taylor.
03:08 His mom, Donna Kelsey, is too.
03:10 She recently opened up to Alex's Hollywood about her son and Taylor's connection.
03:14 "You can't get away from it.
03:16 Your son is totally going viral right now over the weekend.
03:19 Did you see that news?
03:20 Was it sweet for you as a mom to see him with that big smile?"
03:24 "It's kind of hard not to see it.
03:27 It's all over the place.
03:29 But you know what?
03:30 They're making their own story and they're telling it their way.
03:33 And so that's as good as it gets.
03:37 They're letting the whole world see what's happening.
03:39 So I can't say anything except for I'm just glad that he's happy."