Watch: Pat McAfee Reveals What It’s Really Like Sitting Next to Taylor Swift, Tom Cruise at an NFL Game
Tom Cruise and Taylor Swift small-talk, work and the weather and football.
The Digger actor shared what he and the “I Knew It, I Knew You” singer chatted about while sitting next to one another at her husband Travis Kelce‘s season opener when the Kansas City Chiefs went up against the Denver Broncos Sept. 14.
As Cruise told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Sept. 17, “She was schooling me on football.”
After Fallon asked, “For real?” the Top Gun star confirmed, “For real. She was bringing the football.”
“First of all, she’s a genius,” Cruise continued. “I’ve been following her since she was a kid. Everybody there, all their friends, they’re a beautiful couple and magical in their own right. Everybody there in that booth.”
The 64-year-old explained that the outing was extra special because it had been so long since he’d been able to attend an NFL game.
“I hadn’t been to a football game since pre-Covid, where I was working and everything,” he said. “So to get to hang out there and have that moment, it was a lot of fun. She knows her stuff.”
Making Swift’s knowledge about football even more impressive to Cruise was the fact that she knew so little about the game before she started dating Travis.
“She knew nothing about football when she met Travis,” he explained. “She said, ‘You know, he’s so patient.’ I said, ‘I’m sure he was.’ I think everybody would be very patient.”
Cruise went on to maintain that now the Grammy winner “knows” and is “just bringing it” in all aspects of her life and career.
“We talked about music and movies,” he finished. “She’s funny. She’s got such a great sense of humor. A brilliant writer also, by the way. Brilliant musician and director. Very skilled.”
Cruise’s account aligns with what Pat McAfee had recounted of his experience of being in the same suite at the game.
“Got a chance to chitchat with Miss Taylor Swift last night,” he revealed during the Sept. 15 episode of his ESPN series, The Pat McAfee Show. “I go, ‘Miss Taylor,’ and she goes, ‘Pat!’ I go, ‘How are you?’”
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The TV personality went on to share how locked into the game Swift and the rest of the people in their box were.
“That was the most ‘into it’ suite we’ve ever been in,” he shared. “Everybody in there was all in. He had that 57-yard catch, we were in there for that. That was what being a football fan was like.”
“She’s all in,” McAfee added. “I know she had an Eagles jersey on when she was young, she sang the National Anthem but she’s been so busy with her career I wasn’t sure how much she was into football and how much everybody else that was in there. Obviously, you’ve got the Kelce portion in there—they’re all football people. Watching them experience a game was fantastic.”
Keep reading for a closer look at Swift and Kelce’s romance…
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