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When Taylor Swift attended the Sept. 24 game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Chicago Bears at Arrowhead Stadium, most fans assumed that was near the start of her relationship with Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce and her first time attending a game with the team. But apparently, that’s not true.

During a recent appearance on The Sports Shop With Reese & Kmac, Kansas City Chiefs defensive backs coach Dave Merritt revealed a pretty shocking secret, indicating that Taylor Swift had actually been around the team for a while before that, saying when she first began coming around “it was privately.”

“She was coming into the stadiums without people really knowing until the camera put the big spotlight on her,” Merritt said on the show according to Entertainment Tonight.

It’s not clear exactly how long Kelce and Swift had been dating up to that point, but it appears that the relationship had been going much longer than previously thought – and Swift had apparently been quietly watching Chiefs’ games from stadiums without the spotlight.

In any case, Merritt made it clear that the team was happy to have Swift around and that she actually fit in very well within the organization.

[Entertainment Tonight]