Tony Romo admits to trolling followers with remark about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce: ‘I did that on function’

Tony Romo received just a little prophetic whereas trolling Swifties in 2023.

Whereas opening up concerning the impression that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's romance has had on his job, the NFL commentator revealed that he as soon as performed a fairly humorous trick on the pop star's followers.

"I did sort of play with the followers. I feel I used to be like, 'And there's…' I feel I stated, 'his spouse,'" Romo informed SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up on Thursday, referencing a December 2023 recreation. "I did that on function and other people had been like, 'Have you learnt one thing?'"

Laughing, Romo admitted, "I used to be like, 'Nah, I simply needed to make you guys suppose for a second.' Simply mess with you just a little bit."

On the time, Swift and Kelce had simply made their whirlwind romance public and turn out to be a topic of public fascination, particularly when it got here to Swift attending video games for the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. Throughout that December broadcast, Romo was commentating when the cameras minimize to Swift and he quipped, "As you see, Kelce’s spouse, Taylor Swift, within the viewers."

He then appeared to catch his mistake and corrected, "I'm sorry— Girlfriend!"

One other commentator laughed at Romo's blunder, joking, "Not but."

Little did the previous Dallas Cowboys quarterback know that simply two years later, Swift and Kelce would truly get engaged. Seems he was simply wanting too far forward.

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Elsewhere in his go to to The Morning Mash Up, host Nicole Ryan requested, "How laborious was it to stability the Taylor tune puns and references with out going excessive?"

"Oh, it was so tough," Romo replied, with exaggerated exhaustion. "I don't understand how I received by it."

"One of many hardest elements of your job ever, actually," Good quipped.

Laughing the query off, Romo denied that it was "powerful," sharing that it in the end "didn’t really feel any completely different."

Swift famously started courting Kelce, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish, after he publicly said on his New Heights podcast in July 2023 that he had tried — and failed — to attach together with her on the Eras Tour present in Kansas Metropolis. The NFL star revealed that he made her a friendship bracelet along with his telephone quantity however by no means received the prospect at hand it over. They started courting that summer time and relentless media and social media protection ensued as Swift started exhibiting up at video games to cheer him on — together with the 2024 Tremendous Bowl, the place the Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers.

Within the midst of all of it, some NFL followers voiced annoyance over Swift's presence at video games and the eye that adopted. Throughout a 2024 name with the Kansas City Star, Romo made it clear that he didn't share these considerations.

"It’s Taylor, she’s simply as large a character as anyone on the earth proper now. And I feel that’s a fantastic factor that she’s at soccer video games," he stated on the time. "I feel it simply provides worth. And I feel our staff does it the fitting means."

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Romo additionally addressed his inspiration for jokingly referring to Swift as Kelce's spouse, noting that somebody did the identical factor to him when he was in a relationship with singer Jessica Simpson. The pair dated from November 2007 by July 2009.

"Somebody did that to me again within the day they usually’re like, 'And there’s your spouse. Oh, I imply, your girlfriend,'" he shared. "So typically the humor doesn’t go over as properly."

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