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Travis Kelce's high school football coach has lifted the lid on his first encounter with the Kansas City Chief star's fiancée, Taylor Swift.
Jeff Rotsky coached the tight end during his high school years at Cleveland Heights High School in Ohio.
And despite Kelce, 36, going on to hit new heights in the NFL, including three Super Bowl wins, the coach has maintained a close relationship with his former player.
He has attended Chiefs games to watch his former pupil in action, including a 2023 matchup where he met Kelce's pop sensation fiancée for the first time.
Rotsky had nothing but kind words about the songstress as he revealed she had a hilarious request for him.
'She is the kindest young lady you ever met and down to earth,' Rotsky recalled in an interview with The Times. 'She treated us like gold.
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift were all smiles alongside his old high-school coach on Sunday
Kelce invited Jeff Rotsky (right), who coached him in his senior year, and daughter Emmie (left) to watch the Chiefs' win over the Texans from his VIP suite at Arrowhead on Sunday
'The first time we met, her opening line was, 'I've been looking forward to meeting you, I want to hear all the dirt about Travis.''
Kelce and Swift even posed for a photo with the coach and his daughter with the four beaming at the camera.
Rotsky revealed that he keeps in touch with a staggering 750 of his former student athletes, including Kelce, who he said chats with him throughout the year.
'I'm proud of what he's done athletically. But eventually that runs out, and the question is, who is the man behind that?' Rotsky said, pointing to a signed Kelce jersey by him, per The Times.
He added: 'Travis has grown up to be a leader, to have a kind heart, to have fun. As a coach or father, what more can you ask for from your son or player?'
Kelce and Swift announced their engagement in August after two years of dating with the NFL star popping the question with an Old Mine brilliant cut diamond ring, which he designed.
Rotsky, who keeps Kelce's No 87 Chiefs jersey framed in his office, said that he would be 'blessed' to receive an invitation to the wedding of the century.
