Travis Kelce Perfectly Summarized How He and Taylor Swift Handle All the Outside Noise

AFC championship week would be a difficult enough endeavor for Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce in a normal year.

This, however, is no normal year.

For one thing, the Chiefs are decided underdogs to the Baltimore Ravens—the best team in the conference during the regular season. Then there is the small matter of Kelce's relationship with musician Taylor Swift, which has elevated the future Hall of Famer to a stratospheric level of celebrity rarely enjoyed by non-quarterbacks.

Asked Friday how he and Swift handle the hurricane of coverage surrounding their day-to-day existences, Kelce drew on a common football tactic: blocking out the noise.

"The only thing we've talked about is as long as we're happy, we can't listen to anything that's outside noise," Kelce said.

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Kelce is seeking his third Super Bowl ring—potentially Kansas City's fourth—following victories in 2019 and 2022. This one would be hard-earned, as the Chiefs' 11–6 record was their worst since 2017.

"There's certain kinds of challenges in life where you just gotta appreciate that you're getting tested," Kelce said. "Not everybody gets those kinds of opportunities, especially when you get an opportunity to do it with a group of men and women that you can rally together with and really prove to yourselves what you're made of."