Travis Kelce Credits Taylor Swift After His Jersey Outsells Other NFL Stars
Travis and Jason Kelce now boast the top-selling NFL jerseys in the UK.
The ripple effect of Taylor Swift dating Travis Kelce has already had a profound effect on both NFL ratings and merch sales, with the Kansas City Chiefs tight end seeing a nearly 400 percent spike in sales within 24 hours of the singer first appearing at one of his game back in September. But it's not just Americans buying up Kelce jerseys, as the pair revealed on their New Heights podcast this week.
"Well in other new news, we are the number 1 and number 2 top-selling jerseys in the United Kingdom," Jason Kelce remarked in the Dec. 13 episode.
"Yeah, Trav, you got the number 1 best-selling jersey—good to know we're still number 1 in something these days—and followed by me at number 2," he continued, joking about both the Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles recent turn of bad luck. "This is crazy, it's Travis, then me, then Pat Mahomes and Jalen Hurts. Doesn't make any sense at all." "Yeah, I don't know. Either way, I'll take it," Travis admitted.
"Lot of Swifties over there in the U.K.?" Jason followed up with, to which Travis responded: "There's gotta be. Only reasonable solution to all of this."
"And I think I'm only number 2 because I think lot of people in the UK maybe just don't watch football and they're like, 'Oh I heard this Kelce guy dates Taylor Swift' and buy my jersey by accident," Jason joked, of his own baffling spike in UK-based sales.
"No, they're all Kylie Kelce fans," Travis countered. "They're supporting Kylie, of course. Shoutout to Kylie, shoutout to Taylor. Thank you guys."
On that note, Travis floated the idea of taking the popular podcast abroad and recording a live show from London, which Jason said he'd be "very down for."
"Nice, well, shoutout to everybody across the pond over there in the UK for grabbing our jerseys," Travis added. "That's pretty damn cool. We'll have to try to find our way over there this offseason and say hello to everybody in person."
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