I’m Deliriously Happy over the Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce Engagement Speculation

by Doc – Owner, Founder, Never Figured He’d Be Writing About Taylor Swift on an Amiibo Website He Started in Undergrad On a Whim

Dear Reader,

Lately I’ve been watching Travis Kelce’s podcast “New Heights”, which he co-hosts with his brother Jason Kelce, to get a feel for who Travis is as a person. The podcast is interesting in its own right even to someone with only a cursory interest in football – both hosts are manly, interesting men with dynamic personalities and they make for great listening just about all the time if you can keep up with the chaos.

Recently, the podcast went into the topic of “lab grown NBA players” (it sounds insane, but I assure you it’s not the craziest thing they talk about), and Travis made the comment that he couldn’t wait to produce a child of his own.

Let me tell you, as someone who is himself eagerly wanting to start a family: this is not the sort of thing that a man says unless he’s familiar with the idea of having children All Too Well. Trust me on this. Men don’t throw around the notion of having kids unless they’ve already thought internally about having kids because that kind of commitment just Hits Different.

Let’s also mention that Travis generally has no filter when speaking his mind, and is already well endeared to his young nieces whom he gets along with. He’s also dating an international celebrity, and he’s not getting any younger… and his finances have lined up quite nicely with a cool ~$50 million contract for the next few years after winning another Super Bowl. Frankly, everything on paper about Travis Kelce seems to point to “wife and kids” being next on his list of life priorities to aim for.

Given this information, there’s really two ways to interpret the intention behind that statement: the first is that Travis was having some fun stirring up the Swifties. If that’s the case then consider me stirred. The second is that he, in his characteristic “no filter” Style, was honestly admitting to considering having children in a conversation with his brother.

I’m incredibly hopeful that it’s the second possibility, and I don’t think I’m alone. Most of the Swiftie population seems to support this sentiment despite the ubermenschly Travis being a massive departure from the “type” of man (artsy, fragile and emotional) that Taylor has dated. Travis Kelce has created a lot of New Romantics in the Swiftie base. Why is that?

Why Do the Swifties Like Travis More?

My best guess (being a heterosexual man in a fanbase that is mostly heterosexual women) is that Travis is simply manly as fuck compared to Taylor’s old boyfriends. Travis has all the classic traits of that stereotypically manly guy, such as a huge physique, huge income and a nothing-to-prove personality that is not at all insecure. He’s not some floppy London Boy, and the Swifties know it. Her past boyfriends didn’t have that kind of manliness, and my guess is that the Swifties instinctively feel that too.

Doc Note: There’s many paths to being manly, and some of the manliest men I know were broke, or not physically fit, or a tad insecure. Masculinity isn’t about checking off boxes of “what makes a man” – it’s about continuously organizing your internal self so that your external self is in a position to protect and build up others for the benefit of everyone.

Consider this: of all of Taylor’s boyfriends, which one would be most likely to physically put himself on the line to defend her? Joe Jonas, the conflict-avoidant weirdo who broke up with her over a 27-second phone call? Tom Hiddleston, who really just wanted to catch her on the rebound? Joe Alwyn, who -?

Never mind. We won’t even consider Joe.

No, the obvious answer is Travis Kelce. Travis can obviously physically put down a threat, but he also strikes me as the kind of guy who’d put himself on the line to defend someone else even if he didn’t know them. This hypothetical will obviously not come to pass, as Taylor has a cadre of Fearless bodyguards who do a pretty good job – but it’s the proclivity to protect and defend that counts. As far as I can tell, emotionally healthy ladies like that in a man.

As I said before, Travis is manly. He’s earned my respect for that, and most Swifties probably agree.

Is “Lover” or “The 1” the Best Outcome Here? (As If My Opinion Matters)

LOVER!

I’m a firm believer that marriage is a positive for society, and that Clean, thriving societies are built on the foundation of healthy, mature and responsible couples uniting into a relationship with God as the head of the relationship and the man and woman sacrificing to serve each other according to their abilities and proclivities. The specific “roles” of the marriages often vary – one would be hard-pressed to imagine that Travis would be the “breadwinner” if he married Taylor, who has x10 his net worth – but the underlying servitude to each other, to the kids and to God are the same across all marriages.

That’s a long thought. Let’s boil it down to a Long Story Short:

• Does the guy and the gal love each other?
• Are they Christians? (or otherwise of the same religious faith?)
• Are they both* 100% dedicated to sacrificing their own desires to serve the needs of their spouse and their future (or present) kids according to the will of God?

*One-sided marriages create one-sided divorces.

If the answer to all these questions is yes then they should get married Forever & Always! And if the answer to all these questions for Travis and Taylor is yes, then I can only see marriage as the ideal outcome here. And I Think He Knows that.