Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and that engagement

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement might have kicked off a major earthquake in the real world this week, but it hasn’t put critical seismic exercise into the lives of the spouses-to-be: They have been noticed out Thursday night time in a luxurious box catching — wait for it — a school soccer sport, where Swift took her new engagement ring out for a take a look at drive.

It was the first sport of the 2025-26 NCAA season for the hometown University of Cincinnati Bearcats, the Kelce brothers’ alma mater, who misplaced to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Cornhuskers by a area purpose at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. The bros (Jason was there too) have been rooting for the Bearcats, clearly, with Travis rocking a street-art emblazoned Cincinnati cap and his older sibling sported a more conventional school typeface on his chapeau.

Swift rocked a denim miniskirt, according to People, with a white sweater, white boots, inexperienced nails and, oh yes, that large engagement ring. The Old Mine Cut diamond ring was designed by Travis Kelce and New York City-based jewellery designer Kindred Lubeck, according to myriad media studies.

While consultants who talked to People put the scale of the stone at between 5 and 10 carats and guesstimated its worth as anyplace from $125,000 to $5 million — which is sort of the vary — of us who talked to Page Six said it possible got here with a $1-million price tag. Basically, no person is aware of the worth of a custom-made, vintage-style ring with a one-of-a-kind hand-etched diamond that is at present sitting on the ring finger of a global pop star. Go determine.

“It’s my engraved pieces that put me on the digital map,” Lubeck told VoyageJacksonville in 2024. “I started making reels showcasing my work and people started noticing. Eventually, I started getting requests for me to make engagement rings.”

The Neptune Beach, Fla., native has described herself as a goldsmith specializing in hand engraving who bought began working half time with her jeweler dad in her hometown during the pandemic lockdown.

“Basically, I take very small, sharp instruments and cut away bits of metal, usually on the sides of rings, into a particular design,” she said. “People just go crazy for it when I post it online.”

No kidding: On Friday, Lubeck appeared to be bought out of every big-ticket ring she had been offering on her web site, though a handful of sub-$20,000 designs have been still in stock. (Swifties, where you at? A bunch of them will be had for less than $5,000! And they’re not even “distressed.”)

The Grammy-winning “Love Story” pop icon and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end announced the start of their engagement period on Tuesday in a joint Instagram post.

“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” Swift captioned pictures from the garden engagement, which truly befell a couple of weeks earlier.

Kelce’s dad told a Cleveland news station the same day that Travis had popped the query at home in Lee’s Summit, Mo., after months of planning, proper before the 2 headed out for dinner. Before they left, Travis told Taylor, “‘Let’s go out and have a glass of wine.’ … They got out there, and that’s when he asked her, and it was beautiful,” Ed Kelce said.

He added with a comfortable shrug, “I don’t know how much I’m supposed to say, but I don’t care!”

But Vice President JD Vance positively cares — about the consequences this pairing might need on the NFL this season.

“I will say as a football fan — as a Cincinnati Bengals fan — I hope that the NFL does not put a thumb on the scale for the Kansas City Chiefs just because Travis Kelce is now getting married to maybe the most famous woman in the world,” the veep told USA Today this week.

“You guys can’t sort of have this, ‘I’m worried they’re going to have a Super Bowl wedding’ thing this season. Can’t do it. The Kansas City Chiefs have to follow the same rules as everybody else.”

So in the case that the NFL’s “deep state” turns romantic and favors the Chiefs in this pigskin-tinted love story, Vance is urging followers to be prepared to act.

“I think all football fans should be willing to push back on the NFL,” he said, “and say, ‘Look, you guys got to be fair.’”

Fair enough.

Times workers author Alexandra Del Rosario contributed to this report.