Taylor Swift has turned Julian Edelman’s 8-year-old daughter Lily into a Kansas City Chiefs fan.
“It’s the first time that I’d be sitting on a couch and all of a sudden my daughter, who’s 8 years old, is starting to talk about football to me,” Edelman, 38, told Us Weekly exclusively while promoting Angel Soft’s first-ever Super Bowl commercial. “I’m a football player, so I think it’s been so cool for that aspect. My daughter and her friends, they all talk about the Chiefs.”
Edelman joked that as a former New England Patriots wide receiver “it’s tough” for him to hear about his daughter’s newfound Chiefs fandom. Still, overall, he says thinks “it’s great” that Swift’s relationship with Travis Kelce has made football exciting to watch for more people. (Edelman played for the Patriots for 12 seasons from 2009 to 2020.)
“It’s growing the sport and that’s what we all want,” he said.
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While Lily is a budding NFL fan, she will not be joining her dad at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans.
“She’s got school, so she will not be making it,” he told Us. “Daddy’s got to work. Maybe soon we’ll bring her to a Super Bowl. It’s a lot. There’s so many logistics — passes for this, passes for that line. It’s chaos.”
This year’s Super Bowl, set to take place on Sunday, February 9, will feature the Chiefs going against the Philadelphia Eagles in a rematch of 2023’s Big Game.
Edelman will be working, but he’ll “definitely” be on the lookout for Swift — especially when it comes to the possibility of an autograph for Lily, whom he shares with model Ella Rose. (Edelman noted that he might have met Swift in 2010 when she played at Gillette Stadium during his Patriots tenure.)
“We’ll get that,” he assured Us. “I mean Trav, dude, help me out.”
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Edelman teamed up with Angel Soft to give football fans a bathroom break — or potty-tunity — during the Super Bowl next month.
“They’re taking out, literally, a full commercial at the Super Bowl to allow you — and all of us who are glued to the TV because the game and the commercials — to take a bathroom break,” he explained, noting that the “cutie” Angel Soft angel is always there as a reminder.
Angel Soft debuted their commercial on Tuesday, January 28, telling fans that the ad spot is designed to be missed so they can use the bathroom right before Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show. Edelman teamed up with sports commentator Charissa Thompson for his portion of the commercial, which features him running from the bathroom to the Big Game.
“It was fun. It was tough doing a running hallway scene in Jimmy Choo boots 50 times,” he quipped. “Feet are probably broken, but thankfully I had some Angels Soft to put ’em on afterwards.”
He joked, “Toughest run of my career.”
