Lena Dunham‘s name is not necessarily the first one you’d associate with major league team sports, but the Girls creator and Too Much writer knows more than you think about football and definitely has thoughts on Taylor Swift‘s fiancé, Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
Dunham joined Swift and Selena Gomez at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City on Sunday (Dec. 7), where the Houston Texans beat the home team 20-10, possibly eliminating the Chiefs from playoff contention for the first time in a decade.
In an Instagram post on Monday (Dec. 8), Dunham weighed in on her football bona fides, noting that despite being a native New Yorker who now lives in London, her first home team was the Chiefs and Sunday marked her first time visiting Arrowhead. “She’s in her sports era,” Dunham wrote about her football fixation in a play on Swift’s mega Eras Tour outing, before signing off the post with a “Love you @killatrav,” in reference to Kelce’s Insta handle.
And while Dunham didn’t include any snaps with the pop star in her post, the accompanying photos included a series of selfies in which Dunham, 39, rocked Chiefs gear alongside Michael Cohen, the co-founder of their Good Things Going Productions media company, including a shot of her suitcase draped with a Chiefs jacket. “If you see me in a new piece of Chiefs merch every day for the next 17 months blame @handler.official and keep moving,” Dunham wrote.
Swift and Dunham’s friendship goes back more than a decade to 2012 when Dunham was dating the singer’s former go-to producer, Jack Antonoff.
Back in July 2024, the actress/writer told The New Yorker that she’s made it her job to protect Swift from space invaders. “I’m always very careful to be protective of her in every single way,” Dunham said. “Probably the two things I get asked most in life are ‘What is Taylor like?’ and ‘Can I have tickets to the Eras Tour?’ And usually my answer to both things is no, but I will say that she’s everything that you would want her to be.”
And, not for nothing, Golden Globe-winner Dunham added, Swift is “kind, she’s devoted, she’s introspective, she’s emotional, she’s funny as f–k. I guess my feeling sometimes is, ‘Isn’t she giving us enough, guys?’” Dunham joined Swift on stage during her 1989 world tour and Taylor returned the favor in 2021, when she was a bridesmaid at Dunham’s wedding to musician Luis Felber.
