Tight End University has most certainly arrived.
The annual event, in which founders Travis Kelce, George Kittle and Greg Olsen gather their tight end brethren, might have reached its zenith Tuesday night when music megastar Taylor Swift delivered a surprise performance of her hit “Shake It Off.”
Swift, a 14-time Grammy Award winner and the girlfriend of Chiefs multi-time All-Pro Kelce, was in attendance in Nashville, Tennessee, for the event before she joined country music singer Kane Brown on stage. The one-song showing was her first live performance since the conclusion of her massively successful Eras Tour on Dec. 8, 2024, in Vancouver.
Kelce and Co. began TEU in 2021 in Nashville. It’s a camp of sorts that allows tight ends to get together, have some fun, learn from each other and features on-field drills, film study and plenty more. It’s grown in popularity and notoriety, with portions of this year’s three-day event receiving ESPN live coverage that saw interviews with Kittle, the Cardinals’ Trey McBride and the Eagles’ Dallas Goedert.
It seemed inevitable that Swift would eventually make an appearance.
She’s attended the last two Super Bowls -- in which Kelce’s Chiefs went 1-1 -- and has become a regular at his games. With her schedule opened up, she joined her beau in Nashville, the town in which her music career began.