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On Monday, Taylor Swift stopped by the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon to reveal why he wasn’t playing the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show. She explained that she had an affair with NFL player Travis Kels, and that her relationship with “lock-in” during the game had an impact on her decision.
In an appearance on tonight’s show starring Jimmy Fallon on October 6th, Taylor Swift revealed why she wasn’t the headline for the Super Bowl halftime show.
When the host asks if he has turned down a formal Super Bowl offer for the rights to the performance footage, he presents rumors circulating online. However, she emphasized that she has never reached the actual point of the contract. “They sometimes call out, ‘How does she feel about the Super Bowl?” And it’s not an official offer or a meeting room conversation,” she explained.
So why do you pass? Swift has put the spotlight on his fiancee, Travis Kelce. Calling football “violent chess” and “greater without swords,” she explained the emotional strength of watching Kelce put “his life on the line” and how strange it is to play on his grass.
“During the season, I’m trapped in what the guy is doing on the field,” she said, adding that football is “a very dangerous, very high pressure, high intensity sport.” She joked about trying to plan elaborate choreography in her head while he was playing theatre. She added that the decision “has nothing to do with Travis,” and said, “He loves me doing it. I’m just trapped.”
Off the field, Swift and Kelce are in the process of planning a wedding after the Kansas City Chiefs proposed to the singer in August. “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are married,” they wrote in a joint Instagram post announcing their engagement. The couple will be together from the summer of 2023.
Swift, who just released her 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirl, previously appeared on Kelce’s New Heights podcast and opened up about the public perception of their romance.
“We don’t really (be careful about chattering about our relationship),” she said. “I don’t see much,” she continues, “feedback from the internet” and reading comments, and although she can “internalize” external noise, she learns to adjust it. “I was in the music industry for 20 years,” she said. “It’s pretty difficult to hurt my feelings at this point.”
