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😍“MISS TAYLOR… IS THERE ANY WAY I CAN GET A SELFIE?” — The entire suite froze when Pat McAfee, dripping in sweat after walking the field, broke the no-photo rule and asked Taylor Swift for a picture anyway. In a rare, unscripted moment during the Chiefs’ 31-10 demolition of the Broncos, Swift said “Absolutely!”, opened her arms for a hug, and posed with the ESPN star — even as Tom Cruise sat nearby in a leather jacket without a single drop of sweat. McAfee later revealed it was their first real meeting since her wedding to Travis, and that the Kelce-Swift suite was “the most all-in we’ve ever been in” when Travis hit that 59-yard catch — Watch the full, rare clip of the sweaty hug, the selfie, and what she actually said here. 👇👇👇
Pat McAfee couldn’t stop sweating when he met Taylor Swift at the Chiefs’ home opener on Monday night.
During Tuesday’s installment of “The Pat McAfee Show,” the ESPN personality — who made his “Monday Night Football” debut during Kansas City’s 31-10 win over the Denver Broncos — shared his conversation with Swift and explained how he got a selfie with her, despite a no-photo policy in her star-studded suite at Arrowhead Stadium.
“I potentially talked to Tom Cruise last night,” McAfee said of the “Mission: Impossible” actor, who was a guest in the suite.
I was dripping in sweat, and he had a leather jacket on, and he didn’t have a single drop or bead of sweat anywhere.”
Got a chance to chitchat with Miss Taylor Swift last night. Huge day… On the way out, I go, ‘Miss Taylor, is there any way I can get a selfie with you?’ She said, ‘Absolutely!’
“She was so kind. So hospitable.”
McAfee said Jason Kelce, also a member of the “MNF” team, took him to the suite.
Pat McAfee and Taylor Swift snap a selfie at the Chiefs’ home opener against the Denver Broncos at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City on Sept. 14, 2026.
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“I go, ‘Miss Taylor,’ and she goes, ‘Pat!’ I go, ‘How are you?’”
McAfee, “dripping sweat” due to filming and walking around the field, said Swift reached her arms out for a hug.
“Just sweat all over her,” McAfee said, adding that it was their first time meeting after only a brief interaction at her and Kelce’s July 3 wedding at Madison Square Garden.
Donna Kelce, Andrea Swift, Taylor Swift and Jason Kelce celebrate after Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce made a 59-yard reception against the Denver Broncos at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, on Monday, September 14, 2026.
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“‘So sorry that this happened. Great to meet you. You’re the best,’” he recalled telling Swift.
McAfee explained that he watched Kelce’s 59-yard catch in the third quarter from the tight end’s suite with “the Kelce-Swift family,” who he described as “excited, enthusiastic and bought-in.”
“Hey, she’s all in. She is… every snap. It was… that was the most into-it suite we’ve ever been in,” he said. “Everybody in there was all in, and then [Travis] had that [59]-yard catch. We were in there for that. Oh my god. That was like what being a football fan was like… because I don’t know how much she was into football.”
Taylor Swift and Tom Cruise in a suite at Arrowhead Stadium for the Chiefs-Broncos game on Monday, September 14, 2026 in Kansas City.