Tom Cruise Says Taylor Swift Schooled Him on Football While Supporting Travis Kelce at Chiefs Game

Tom Cruise is breaking down his hangout with Taylor Swift at Travis Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs game.

The Digger actor, 64, stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, September 17, and was quizzed about being photographed alongside Swift, 36, at the Chiefs’ game against the Denver Broncos on Monday, September 14.

Host Jimmy Fallon described it as the “biggest movie star in the world sitting next to the biggest artist in the world” and asked, “What do you talk about?”

“She was schooling me on football. She was bringing the football [knowledge],” Cruise responded.

“First of all, she’s a genius,” Cruise gushed over the musician. “I’ve been following her since she was a kid. Everybody there, all their friends… they’re a beautiful couple and magical in their own right.”

“I haven’t been to a football game since pre-COVID … so to get to hang out there and have that moment, it was a lot,” he added.

Fallon noted that before Swift started dating Kelce, 36, in 2023, she didn’t know much about football. (She told Time magazine in December 2023, “Football is awesome, it turns out. I’ve been missing out my whole life.”)

Cruise said that has clearly changed over the course of her relationship with the Chiefs tight end: “Oh, she knows her stuff. She’s like, ‘This is like…’ I was like, ‘OK!’” he recalled. “She knew nothing about football when she met Travis. It was like her [saying], ‘What was it like playing against your brother, tackling each other?’ She said, ‘You know, he’s so patient.’ I said, ‘I’m sure he was!’ … She knows [football]. She’s just bringing it. She knows.”

Aside from football, Cruise said, “We talk about music and movies.”

“She’s funny. She’s got such a great sense of humor. A brilliant writer, also, by the way. A brilliant musician, director … very skilled,” he continued to praise the Grammy winner.

Cruise was among the guests who attended Swift and Kelce’s July 3 wedding at Madison Square Garden in New York City, which fellow actor Adam Sandler officiated.

In an interview with ESPN’s Chris Berman on Monday, Kelce described it as “the best night of my life.”

“Marrying Taylor, it was more than I could have ever dreamed it to be because of all the people that showed up and the amount of love that was in the air,” he said.