An Arrowhead Stadium employee said she “immediately started crying” after a special moment with Taylor Swift on Christmas.
After Swift, 36, supported her fiancé Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs on Christmas Day, the “Wood” singer gave generous tips to employees at the stadium, and one woman shared her experience in a post on social media.
The woman, named Robyn, said in a Facebook post in a group called Taylor Swift’s Vault that she was working at Arrowhead on Christmas “doing my end of season to-do list” and talking with co-workers when the unexpected moment occurred.
Robyn first spotted Donna Kelce come by, and then the Chiefs tight end and the music superstar, she wrote. Swift was “running around telling everyone Merry Christmas” before the singer approached Robyn to say “thank you so much for working on Christmas, please take this.”
Kelce and his fiancée “were smiling so big and just kept saying ‘Merry Christmas, thank you for working on Christmas,” Robyn said. “My mind just froze,” Robyn said, adding, “Of course I said ‘Merry Christmas and thank you so much.’ “
After the couple left, Robyn said she “stopped to look what was in my hand…$600.”
“My whole paycheck for two weeks,” Robyn said, adding that she “had just dropped that much for Christmas for 8 kids” before Swift’s generous tip. “I immediately started crying,” she shared. “So I came home and can’t bring myself to spend it. So I framed one. Still haven’t spent any.”
Robyn said she wanted to “share the story with people who will appreciate it with me,” explaining why she posted the story in the Swift fan group.
Concluding her post, Robyn said, “Taylor and Travis are beautifully kind people. It’s very true, incredible and very kind people. Merry Christmas and happy birthday to me.”
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Before Swift’s kind gesture, Kelce had fans feeling emotional during what could have been his final home game at Arrowhead.
The NFL veteran said he was feeling “a whole lot of emotions” in that moment during a postgame press conference, according to the Associated Press. “You’ve got everybody in the world watching you. You get to go out there with the young guys on primetime television. Young guys getting an opportunity to taste what this NFL life is like.”
When asked point blank about retirement, Kelce told reporters, “I’ll let that be a decision I’ll make with my family, friends, the Chiefs organization when the time comes.”