Wall Street Journal columnist: Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift make ‘life feel more magical’

Sports Illustrated on Thursday announced Colorado football coach Deion Sanders was its choice for Sportsperson of the Year.

It won’t be long before Time magazine announces its Person of the Year, and at least one betting site thinks singer Taylor Swift has the best odds of winning the honor.

That’s the pick for Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, who last week penned a piece with the headline, “We should all give thanks for Taylor Swift.”

Noonan extolled the positivity Swift exudes, especially at her concerts. Noonan wrapped up the column with some thoughts on Swift and her boyfriend, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

If Noonan has her way, the Chiefs will not only repeat as Super Bowl champions but Kelce will score the winning touchdown.

This is a really sweet look at Kelce and his relationship with Swift, one of the world’s most famous singers, from Noonan:

“We end with her recent purported famous romance with football star Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs. Is it real, everyone asks. Who knows? Maybe they don’t know,” Noonan wrote. “I don’t understand the argument that they’ve come together for publicity. That’s the one thing she doesn’t need more of and could hardly get more of. As for Mr. Kelce, as J.R. Moehringer noted this week in the Journal, his mug is all over too. Whatever it is they owe no stranger an answer.

“But here are reasons people would like it to be real. Because it makes life feel more magical — the prince meets the princess. Because it’s sweet. Because if it’s real then not everything is media management, which is the thing that deep down we always fear. Because it’s fun. Marilyn and Joltin’ Joe made America more fun, more a romantic place where anything can happen and glamour is real. Also if it’s real it adds to the sum total of love in the world, literally increases its quantity, and the love enters the air and the world breathes it in and, for a moment, becomes: better.

“Onward to further greatness, Taylor Swift. Onward Travis Kelce. Win the Super Bowl this year, make an impossible catch, jump a man’s height to snatch the ball from the air with 10 seconds to go, score the winning touchdown, hold the ball up to your girl in the stands as the stadium roars and the confetti rains down.

“Leave a 100 billion memories. Remind everyone: It’s good to be alive.

“Because it is.”

That’s sweet, right? And KC fans would absolutely love to see the Chiefs repeat as Super Bowl champions.