Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs Win First Game of the NFL Season in Nail-Biter

The Kansas City Chiefs are 1-0 in their quest for a three-peat!

The defending Super Bowl champions, led by Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, stayed on top in their first game of the NFL season, narrowly defeating Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens 27-20 on Thursday, September 5 at Arrowhead Stadium in Missouri.

After an early touchdown by the Ravens in the first quarter, the Chiefs followed through and didn’t let up, leading the rest of the game. They added two field goals in the second quarter to go into halftime up 13-10, and another touchdown in the third quarter.

The teams traded touchdowns in the fourth quarter, but despite another field goal — and a late game that nearly tied the game — the Ravens couldn’t catch up, and the Chiefs came away with the win.

Ed Kelce hangs with Taylor Swift to watch Travis Kelce make his NFL season debut

Patrick Mahomes.

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The final moments of the game pissed off all the fans, when the Ravens moved to the 10-yard line with just seconds left. With 1 second left on third down, Jackson threw to Isiah Likely who caught the ball in the end zone, seemingly tying the game and sending it into overtime – but his toe was just over the line, negating the play.

Mahomes, Kelce and the Chiefs were clear from the start that they wanted to win an unprecedented third consecutive Super Bowl this season and make history. Although they have away games — and more than 17 games — to go, they are on their way to their first victory.

Cheering on the team was Kelce’s girlfriend, pop superstar Taylor Swift, who was hanging out with his parents, Ed and Donna, at their Arrowhead condo. Wearing a denim corset, denim shorts and Chiefs red thigh-high leather boots, Swift, 34, was spotted giving fans a thumbs up, jumping up and down and hugging Donna in celebration.

Patrick Mahomes says Taylor Swift has already started ‘drawing plays’ for the Kansas City Chiefs

Taylor Swift and Ed Kelce.

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Before the game, the team held an official pregame event, the World’s Largest Tailgate: Tailgate Games. Host Saturday night liveChiefs superfan Heidi Gardner and actor Rob Riggle, one of the biggest stars of the party was Donna herself, who made friendship bracelets with Gardner (in a nod to Swift) and showed off her Travis jersey, which she signed with, “Love you mom!”

Travis Kelce.

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The Chiefs will try to go 2-0 next Sunday, September 15th when they welcome the Cincinnati Bengals to Kansas City.

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