{"id":554251,"date":"2026-01-30T15:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/554251\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:44:11","slug":"tony-romo-knew-exactly-what-he-was-doing-when-he-accidentally-on-purpose-referred-to-taylor-swift-as-travis-kelces-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/554251\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Romo Knew Exactly What He Was Doing When He Accidentally on Purpose Referred to Taylor Swift as Travis Kelce\u2019s \u2018Wife\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Romo never made it to a Super Bowl during his 14-year NFL career, but the former Dallas Cowboys star and CBS sports analyst still knows how to throw darts that stick a decade after leaving the game. Take, for instance, his repeated slip-ups during the 2023-2024 NFL season when he accidentally referred to Taylor Swift<\/a> as Travis Kelce<\/a>\u2018s \u201cwife<\/a>,\u201d more than a year and a half before the couple got engaged.<\/p>\n

Now, in a new interview with SiriusXM\u2019s The Morning Mash Up on Thursday (Jan. 29), Romo, 45, said his mistake was actually no mistake at all.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI did, kind of, play with the fans<\/a> a little bit I think I was like, \u2018And there\u2019s\u2026\u2019 I think I said, \u2018his wife,\u2019\u201d Romo recalled of his cheeky quip. \u201cI did that on purpose and people were like, \u2018Do you know something?\u2019 I was like, \u2018Nah, I just wanted to make you guys think for a second [and] just mess with you a little bit.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

After referring to Swift as Kelce\u2019s \u201cwife\u201d during the Dec. 10, 2023 Chiefs loss to the Buffalo Bills, a week later Romo let it slip again during the Chiefs\u2019 game against the Raiders, saying, \u201cAs you see, Kelce\u2019s wife, Taylor Swift, in the audience.\u201d That time, he appeared to catch his slip-up, quickly adding the correction, \u201cI\u2019m sorry. Girlfriend!\u201d Like the rest of the world, Romo\u2019s co-host, veteran broadcaster Jim Nantz, wanted to know if his boothmate had some secret information, asking if the former quarterback knew \u201csomething we don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now we know, he did not.<\/p>\n

After Swift began dating Chiefs tight end Kelce in 2023, the world\u2019s biggest pop star \u2014\u00a0then in the midst of her record-setting Eras Tour \u2014 became a staple of network coverage of her boyfriend\u2019s team, with the camera often cutting to her several times a game to gauge her reaction to Kelce\u2019s play or check out which other celebs<\/a> were joining her in the Kelce family skybox.<\/p>\n

Kelce and Swift made it official<\/a> on Aug. 26, 2025 in a widely seen Instagram post in which Taylor wrote, \u201cYour English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.\u201d At press time the couple had not yet revealed a date or location for the wedding.<\/p>\n

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