Travis Kelce; Taylor Swift. 

Football helmets are among the flashy items that Taylor Swift enjoys!

The 14-time Grammy winner appeared to illustrate how much she loves her 34-year-old NFL lover Travis Kelce on Friday, July 19, during her third Eras Tour performance at Gelsenkirchen, Germany’s Veltins Arena.

Swift, 34, stunned the audience by surprising them with a mix of two vintage love songs: “Stay Stay Stay,” originally published in 2012 and reissued on Red (Taylor’s Version), and “Paper Rings,” from 2019’s Lover album. She began, “I like shiny things, but I’d marry you with paper rings, that’s right, you’re the one I want,” and then sang the line “That’s when you came in wearing a football helmet,” which is part of the song “Stay, Stay, Stay.” Since Swift began dating the Kansas City Chiefs tight end in 2023, when she regularly attended his games and planted a kiss on him following his 2024 Super Bowl victory, the song’s line “football helmet” has acquired new significance.Kelce was returning to the United States for the Chiefs training camp in Missouri, so he was unable to witness the romantic mashup moment from Friday’s event. Kelce attended his 13th and 14th Eras Tour shows on July 17 and July 18.

The Super Bowl champion was spotted leaving the arena with his girlfriend wrapped around his arm after the event on Thursday.Throughout the Eras Tour, the couple has experienced a number of adorable moments. One such instance was when Kelce stunned Swifties by joining Swift onstage at the London show on June 23.

During the costume change routine between “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” and “I Can Do It with a Broken Heart,” Kelce made his cameo by jumping onto the stage from a stage door on the floor alongside Kameron Saunders and Jan Ravnik, the show’s regular backup dancers.

At the conclusion of “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” which is thought to be about Swift’s ex-partner Matty Healy, she was lying on the ground. At this point, Kelce metaphorically lifted the distraught performer off the stage and carried her to a couch area so she could change into new clothes.

Then, reluctantly, Swift changed into a new outfit while Kelce and the two dancers attempted to rouse her from her imagined state of mind. Swift put on a cheerful smile at the opening note of “I Can Do It with a Broken Heart.”

Some fans have even gone so far as to costume themselves as the NFL player.

Some Swift fans have worn Chiefs shirts to her concerts during her tour, which has stopped in Germany and England.During a surprise mashup of “Mary’s Song,” “So High School,” and “Everything Has Changed” at her gig in Amsterdam on July 6, Swift lyrically acknowledged Kelce’s jersey number, with an emotional Kelce in attendance.

Swift performed the last lines of the 2006 hit song “Mary’s Song,” which, like “Stay Stay Stay,” has gained new significance as a result of her relationship with Kelce. She sang, “I’ll by 87, you’ll be 89 / I’ll still look at you like the stars that shine / In the sky, oh my my my.”  Knowing that Swift was born in 1989 and that Kelce’s jersey number is 87 (she also has an album titled 1989), the fans cheered.

Swift also performed a surprise move—using an unseen bow to release an arrow—that her boyfriend frequently uses during football games during a different event on June 21 in London.

Swift made the gesture and sang, “You know how to ball, I know Aristotle,” alluding to his football skills and her songwriting brilliance, while playing the incisive love song “So High School.”