Tony Romo may have manifested Swift-Kelce wedding invite with 'wife' slip years ago

Was an on-air joke in 2023 enough to earn former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo an invite to the wedding of the year? Signs point to… maybe.

USA TODAY Sports has learned that Romo is in New York City this weekend ahead of Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s rumored nuptials at Madison Square Garden. Romo, who has served as an NFL analyst on CBS since 2017, jokingly referred to Swift as Kelce’s “wife” two different times while on broadcast duty for two Kansas City Chiefs games in 2023.

“As you see Kelce’s wife, Taylor Swift, in the audience,” Romo said after the cameras cut to Swift during a Chiefs game against the Buffalo Bills. “Or I’m sorry, girlfriend.”

He made the same quote-unquote “slip” two weeks later while broadcasting the Chiefs’ game against the Las Vegas Raiders.

“His wife loves it,” Romo said when the broadcast cut to Swift after Kelce’s 900th career reception. “I mean, girlfriend.”

Jim Nantz, Romo’s CBS broadcast partner, joked after the second “wife” mention that Romo had made the same slip before.

A few weeks after the second reference to Swift as Kelce’s wife, Romo made a similar allusion, referring to Kelce’s brother, Jason, as Swift’s “brother-in-law” during the Chiefs’ playoff game against the Bills.

Romo later said in an interview with SiriusXM’s “Morning Mash Up” that he called Swift Kelce’s wife to “kind of play with fans a little bit.”

This weekend, Romo is in New York City amid rumors that Swift and Kelce are having their wedding at Madison Square Garden on July 3. The former Cowboys quarterback made headlines early in his broadcast career for his apparent clairvoyance in predicting play calls from the booth. Could his success with predictions have translated to Kelce and Swift’s relationship? Was it enough earn him an invite to their wedding? Or is Romo’s appearance in New York a coincidence?

Time will tell.

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s timeline, from Chiefs games to wedding

Three years before Taylor Swift headed down the aisle, Travis Kelce was just a fan in the stands at her concert. It only took a failed gift of a friendship bracelet and an intervention from mom Andrea Swift, and now Swift and Kelce are officially end game.

Scroll on to see a timeline of the Grammy winner and Super Bowl champ’s love story.

(Jamie Squire, Getty Images)

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