Taylor Swift gave Travis Kelce an Eras Tour shout-out by dropping his jersey number, 87.
Following the release of Taylor Swift’s record-shattering album, she has resumed her Eras World Tour.
Until his sports duties resume, Travis is cheering on Taylor (just as she did for him) as she entertains thousands.
Taylor isn’t especially talkative about the relationship. But that doesn’t mean that concert-goers aren’t hearing about the #87 Kansas City Chiefs player.
87 is a special number for Taylor Swift and for Travis Kelce
On Sunday, May 12, Taylor Swift performed the Eras Tour. She is currently on the European leg of her world tour, having resumed touring in May after a hiatus of over a month.
“Can you believe this is our 87th show of the Eras tour?” she asked the audience, rhetorically. This extremely successful tour pushed Taylor to billionaire status in 2023.
However, Taylor wasn’t just throwing out that number at random. Probably. It seemed to be a reference to a certain someone.
In the world of sports, athletes wear uniforms (often referred to as “jerseys”) that carry identifying information. Most significantly, a numeral. This allows spectators, coaches, and other players to identify them more easily.
Travis Kelce is a sports player from the Kansas City Chiefs, a football team. His number is “87.”
Thus, Taylor seemed to be making a reference to Travis Kelce. Cryptic? Only a little. Her concert audience and social media fans alike expressed their delight.
That wasn’t Taylor Swift’s only reference to Travis Kelce
As this tweet and many other mention, Taylor Swift mentioned “87” just before playing the song, “The Alchemy.”
This song comes from Taylor’s album, The Tortured Poets Department.
To be blunt, the lyrics of “The Alchemy” are so chock-full of references to football that fans believe that it could only be about Travis Kelce. Oh, and there may even be a Jason Kelce reference in “The Alchemy,” too.
Notoriously, Taylor Swift sings about her exes. They are not the only topics of her music, but they are the most famous (or infamous) subjects of her songs.
The Tortured Poets Department had a lot to do with Joe Alwyn and surprisingly even more to do with Matty Healy. Joe was a long-term relationship with Taylor. Matty was a friend-turned-temporary-lover who honestly seems to suck as a person.
But “The Alchemy” seemed to be about moving on to something new. And something sports-related. That would be #87, Travis Kelce.
