Chiefs Season (So Far) in Taylor Swift Songs

Laddie Morse

If you know me at all, you know I’m a frustrated song writer from way back. By “Way Back” I mean the 1960s. That may give you a hint at how old I am. Nevertheless, when Travis Kelce started dating Taylor Swift I was immediately hoping to hear a song about our own beloved Tight End of greatness. While I’m aware that Taylor Swift mostly writes about her past relationships or breakups, I was hoping she could pen one about our guy as the great hope of us all. Well, I’m still waiting. Then again, I guess that might mean he is the one, and she may not be ready yet to reveal that secret that only her heart knows for sure. However… let’s get on with it…

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Game One: A Loss to the Lions

“Cruel Summer”

When the Chiefs season began, it was still Summer, we’d waited all year for this matchup and the rumor mill was piping hot with Travis Kelce/Taylor Swift rumors that they were dating. The loss — a one point defeat 20-to-21 — to the Lions was also like a cruel reminder: “On Any Given Sunday”…

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Game Two: A Win Over the Jaguars

“Look What You Made Me Do”

The Jaguars were/are an up and coming team. They currently stand with an 8-and-4 record (having lost to the Bengals last night 34-to-31 in OT on MNF) and sit at the top of the AFC South. Are they a threat to the Chiefs getting the top seed? Yes… and… No. Since K.C beat them — 17-to-9 — the Jags would have to avoid a tie in their overall record since K.C. holds the tie-breaker in head-to-head competition. After the loss to the Lions, a victory over the Jags was kind of a “Look What You Made Me Do” moment…

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Game Three: A Big Win Over the Bears

“Me”

When Justin Fields was taken as the 11th pick in the 2021 draft, NFL analysts everywhere were comparing new QBs to Patrick Mahomes. However, as this song makes perfectly clear, “You’ll never find another like ME.” Chiefs won going away by a score of 41-to-10 and the defense began to get some buzz by holding — in their last two games — the Jags to 9, and then the Bears to 10. Not a bad way to start the season.

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Game Four: A Win Over the New York Jets

“Welcome to New York”

We’ve all been waiting for a game with Patrick Mahomes vs. Aaron Rodgers and… this wasn’t it. After Rodgers signed with the Jets in the offseason, so many of us had hoped to finally get a gander at two of the top quarterbacks, ever. When Rodgers went down — in the fourth snap of the season — with an Achilles injury, that possibility went away, and it went away maybe forever. Here’s Taylor Swift’s opening a concert with “Welcome to New York” which is appropriate since it’s the first road game she traveled to so she could watch her man — Travis Kelce — play. The end result was a win: 23-to-20.

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Game Five: A Win in Minnesota

“When You Say Nothing At All”

I realize this was not written by Taylor Swift but… she did a version of this song LIVE in 2015 with Alison Kraus and it reminded me of the Minnesota Vikings. Why? This may sound like Chiefs-blasphemy, but I hope the Vikings win a Super Bowl, and soon. “When You Say Nothing At All” reminds me of the Vikings because they have been to the big game — the Super Bowl — four different times and came away with nothing at all, just losses. Those losses were back in 1970, 1974, 1975 and 1977, but like the Chiefs, they’ve waited many decades for their own chance to get back to the big game and come away victorious. I hope that can happen soon, but it looks like this may not be their year either with an injured QB and a current record of 6-and-6. That puts them in a two-way tie for second place in the NFC North (the Black and Blue Division). In Week Five, the Chiefs beat them 27-to-20 this year.

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Game Six: Beating the Broncos

“Bad Blood”

There was a time when I would say, “I’ll never forgive Neil Smith for signing with the Broncos,” but now that Jamaal Charles has gone there, once his time in K.C. was over, that ship has sailed. Still, the Broncos and the Chiefs have some Bad Blood” between them just like the Taylor Swift song says. In their first game of the season, in Arrowhead, the Chief came out on top, 19-to-8, and the Chiefs defense had held another opponent to a low score. The Chiefs may not have Bad Blood as bad as it is with the Raiders… but it’s still bad!

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Game Seven: Los Angeles Chargers Win

“Paper Rings”

This song title reminds me of the Los Angeles Chargers because they always — in the past ten years anyway — seem to be analysts Paper Champions. In any event, the Chiefs came out with a win, 31-to-17. Paper Champions forever: or they are the owners of Paper Rings.

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Game Eight: A Loss in Denver

“Don’t Blame Me”

This was the beginning of a 2-and-3 series of games that the Chiefs were on the losing end of. To bad it had to include Division foe Broncos but they were playign an away game. That is no excuse for allowing a bad team to rise up and start their own winning streak which reached five until they lost this past Sunday to the Houston Texans. But hey… Don’t Blame Me!

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Game Nine: A Win vs the Dolphins in Germany

“I Knew You Were Trouble”

Tyreek Hill was trouble, that’s for sure. He may end up winning his coveted Super Bowl ring at the end of this season, or he may not. Either way, his time in K.C. was marred by the possible domestic violence cloud and that even ended up forcing K.C. to draft Mecole Hardman in 2019. The Chiefs won this game in Frankfurt by a score of 21-to-14 and the defense continued to get attention becasue of them holding one of the best NFL offenses to such a low score.

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Game Ten: a Loss to the Eagles

“You Belong With Me”

The Eagles are the closest thing the Chiefs have to a rival. The last time they played, in week 11, the Eagles won, but in Super Bowl LVII the Chiefs were the winners. In a sense, they belong together. Also, the Kelce brothers — Travis and Jason — will always belong to, and with, each other. The Eagles may have won this time around, but if they meet again in the next Super Bowl, I would not count our Chiefs out.

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Game Eleven: A Raiders Win

“Shake It Off”

A week earlier, K.C. lost to the Eagles so they needed to win by shaking off the rust from their last game… and they did exactly that! The Chiefs beat the Raiders by a score of 31-to-17 and made sure they could: “Shake It Off”… what you ask? The loss from a week earlier.

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Game Twelve: A Loss in Lambeau

“Back to December”

The reason I used this song is self evident. However, the Chiefs first game in December was not a success with Jordan Love spoiling our party. So, I am also using another song… although…

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… this next — and last — song was not written by Taylor Swift. The reason for using it is also self evident:

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Laddie Morse — ArrowheadOne

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