Originally published on E! Online
In a world full of boys, Adam Sandler’s family knows that Travis Kelce is a gentleman.
In fact, Sandler – who is an avowed Taylor Swift fan along with his daughters Sadie, 18, and Sunny, 15, and his wife Jackie Sandler – recently detailed his and his daughter’s reaction to the debut of the Kansas City Chiefs player and “Karma” singer’s romance last September.
“You guys are together,” Sandler gushed on the Aug. 28 episode of New Heights. “When I saw that photo from your first date, my family was like, ‘Yeah! Look how good they are together! He’s a gentleman! And she’s having so much fun with him!’ Every time Taylor laughs with you, my whole damn family high fives.”
And Kelce’s cheeks were pink in the sparkling light as he replied, “You’re making me sweat, man.”
Of course, Kelce and Sandler had no problem cheering on the “Fortnight” singer.
“What a girl,” Sandler gushed. “She means so much to our house. The kids were little and we were listening to Taylor Swift – it was one of the first times you listened to every song on the record. When I was a kid you listened to the Beatles, maybe Elton John. Every tune. They knew every word.”
And Kelce agreed: “The best artist out there.”
But even though Sandler’s daughters introduced him to their music back then, he has now become a Swiftie himself.
“I love listening to her in the car,” he continued. “I love what she has to say. Every message. Every melody. The staging. What she meant to young girls, what she meant to women, what she meant to men who do the right thing in life.”
Aside from Swift’s music, Sandler also praised her for always taking the time to greet his daughters – and even recalled how she complimented them on their 2023 Netflix comedy “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.”
“On Saturday Night Live, she saw the kids there – spent time with them,” he added. “And then at her movie premiere, she talked to the kids about her movie. She talked about what she liked about it, and she just blew my family away.”
Of course, since she means so much to his daughters, Sandler also emphasized that Swift is the only star he still gets “a little damn nervous around.”
Taylor Swift is spending the last weeks of summer partying with her celebrity friends. After wrapping up the European leg of the Eras Tour at the end of August, the pop star flew to Rhode Island, where she hosted a star-studded party over the weekend.
Kelce may be able to shake off the butterflies in his stomach now, but that wasn’t always the case. After all, he previously described in detail how nervous he was in the early stages of their relationship.
“Everyone around me was telling me, ‘Don’t screw this up,’ and I’m sitting here saying, ‘Yeah, I got it,'” the 34-year-old told WSJ Magazine in November 2023. “That was the most important thing for me: making sure I didn’t say anything that would scare Taylor away.”
If Kelce were an amateur, you can be sure that Swift would have kicked him off her team by now.
