{"id":78507,"date":"2025-08-16T08:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=78507"},"modified":"2025-08-16T08:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:54:08","slug":"not-football-the-obsession-that-got-travis-kelce-and-taylor-swift-to-monterey-bay-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=78507","title":{"rendered":"Not football: The obsession that got Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift to Monterey Bay Aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header article-header\">\n<div class=\"header-title-area\">\n<div class=\"headline-area\">\n<div class=\"headlines\">\n<h2 class=\"subheadline\">The invitation came after Taylor Swift revealed Kelce\u2019s obsession with sea otters during her appearance n his \u2018New Heights\u2019 podcast.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article-content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"header-features default\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_feature lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" title=\"ENTER-MUS-SWIFT-KELCE-GET\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ENTER-MUS-SWIFT-KELCE-GET.jpg?w=526\" sizes=\"955px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ENTER-MUS-SWIFT-KELCE-GET.jpg?w=526 620w,https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ENTER-MUS-SWIFT-KELCE-GET.jpg?w=661 780w,https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ENTER-MUS-SWIFT-KELCE-GET.jpg?w=863 1020w,https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ENTER-MUS-SWIFT-KELCE-GET.jpg?w=1081 1280w,https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ENTER-MUS-SWIFT-KELCE-GET.jpg?w=1571 1860w\" alt=\"Taylor Swift, left, and Travis Kelce attend the men\u2019s final match of the U.S. Open tennis tournament at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Sept. 8, 2024. (Timothy A. Clary\/AFP\/Getty Images\/TNS) \" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ENTER-MUS-SWIFT-KELCE-GET.jpg?w=526\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ENTER-MUS-SWIFT-KELCE-GET.jpg?w=526 620w,https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ENTER-MUS-SWIFT-KELCE-GET.jpg?w=661 780w,https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ENTER-MUS-SWIFT-KELCE-GET.jpg?w=863 1020w,https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ENTER-MUS-SWIFT-KELCE-GET.jpg?w=1081 1280w,https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ENTER-MUS-SWIFT-KELCE-GET.jpg?w=1571 1860w\" \/><\/div><figcaption>Taylor Swift, left, and Travis Kelce attend the men\u2019s final match of the U.S. Open tennis tournament at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Sept. 8, 2024. (Timothy A. Clary\/AFP\/Getty Images\/TNS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"body-copy\">\n<p>The Monterey Bay Aquarium has invited Travis Kelce to come for a visit after his pop star girlfriend, Taylor Swift, revealed this week that he has a fascination with the idea of rescuing and befriending sea otters.<\/p>\n<p>During the couple\u2019s viral \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast episode, Kelce fessed up to his love of watching sea otter rescue videos and said he\u2019d even like to meet one in the \u201cwild,\u201d prompting a Monterey Bay Aquarium spokesperson\u00a0to tell TMZ that they would be happy to send the Kansas City Chiefs tight end more information about these marine mammals.<\/p>\n<p>Isabel Lara pointed out that otters are more than \u201cjust cute animals.\u201d Like Kelce \u201cis on the football field, they are important players in marine ecosystems,\u201d she added. She also said that Kelce \u2014 and probably Swift, too \u2014 would be welcome anytime to visit the four otters who live in the aquarium. According\u00a0to the world-famous aquarium\u2019s website,\u00a0these otters were stranded as pups, raised at the aquarium and have become part of its otter habitat exhibit because they can no longer live in the wild.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/abbR-Ttd-cA?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en-US&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span>\u201cWe\u2019re so pleased to learn Travis cares about sea otters,\u201d Lara told TMZ, before adding: \u201cWe\u2019d be happy to provide more information if he wants to share more about otters on his podcast during Sea Otter Awareness Week from September 21-27.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelce\u2019s otter obsession came up during a discussion with Swift and Jason Kelce, his brother and \u201cNew Heights\u201d co-host, about what Swift has been doing with herself since she ended her blockbuster Eras World Tour, which stretched from March 2023 to December 2024. No doubt, Swift has spent some of her time working on her new album, \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl,\u201d which she announced on the podcast and which is due for release on Oct. 3.<\/p>\n<p>But Swift also said she has become immersed in cooking and baking, especially different flavors of sourdough bread. She said she had found online communities of people who share her love for baking sourdough loaves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is where the Internet is a good place, where you can curate a reality, where, like, all I really use the internet for is sourdough,\u201d Swift said. She then revealed that Kelce uses the internet find Instagram videos of sea otters.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI want a wild animal,\u201d Kelce broke in. \u201cI want a wild otter so bad. I just want to, like, find these little creatures.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Swift herself broke back in to say that Kelce doesn\u2019t want to take an otter out of the wild, as in taking a pup from its mother. Instead, she said he wants to befriend one \u201cwhose life he saved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe wants to see an otter, and the otter is, like, \u2018My paw is caught in a shell,\u2019 and he\u2019s, like, \u2018I got you.&#8217;\u201d Swift explained. \u201cAnd then the otter is, like, \u2018thank you forever,\u2019 with its little paws.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Swift said she envisions them out together kayaking and an otter would swim up to them: \u201cThat\u2019s what he wants, and I want it too, honestly. I mean, who doesn\u2019t?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, a visit by Kelce (and Swift) to the Monterey Bay Aquarium will probably have to wait a few months, or possibly longer, according to TMZ. The Chiefs and other NFL teams have begun pre-season games, with the season officially kicking off Sept. 4. But Kelce could still get acquainted with the aquarium and its otters from afar, especially by tuning in to\u00a0its Sea Otter Cam.\u00a0It live streams from the exhibit from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.<\/p>\n<p>The aquarium says it has has been at the epicenter of sea otter recovery for more than 30 years, saying that those decades of research have revealed the vital role these animals play \u201cin creating resilient coastal ecosystems.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The invitation came after Taylor Swift revealed Kelce\u2019s obsession with sea otters during her appearance n his \u2018New Heights\u2019 podcast. 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