Nicole Viscount’s Eagles hat was a great conversation starter in the box suite at the AFC Championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills, especially for Pennsylvania native Taylor Swift.
In a whirlwind of a weekend Jan. 24-27, Viscount and her fiancé, Craig Parmenter, who live in Milton, attended the taping of Jason Kelce’s late-night show in Philadelphia on Friday night, hung out with Jason and other players and their families that night and Saturday, tagged along with Jason to Lincoln Financial Field Sunday, then flew to Kansas City on a private jet with Jason and Kylie Kelce to attend the Chiefs vs. Bills game, where they hung out with Taylor Swift and others in Travis Kelce’s private box. After the game, they went out with the players and their families again before flying home the next day.
“I was a little afraid [to meet Swift] because they say, ‘Don’t meet your heroes,’” said Viscount, a 29-year-old Dewey Beach native who’s been a massive Swiftie since she was 14. “[But] she was everything that everyone says about her. She was normal, very easy to talk to [and] she introduced herself, which I find hilarious. She hugs you like she’s known you forever, [and] she smells like sunshine and rainbows.”
The experience was not some sort of sweepstakes, but rather, a reunion of old friends.
Parmenter played football with the Kelce brothers at the University of Cincinnati and lived with them while in school. According to Viscount, whom Parmenter met at Starboard Raw in 2019 on Super Bowl Sunday, they’ve remained good friends and have kept in touch.
Viscount met Travis Kelce last April when she and Parmenter were invited to the taping of the Kelce brothers’ podcast New Heights. Despite only meeting once, Travis remembered her name this time around.
“I have no idea how they remember people when they meet so many,” Viscount said. “They’re the most gracious and kind guys that you could want to know.”
Swift is “very much in love with Travis,” Viscount said. “You can tell … She was so cute, how much she was following him around and taking care of him and so excited for him.”
She told Viscount that she hadn’t slept since the playoffs started, and she was so excited when the Chiefs won. The two talked together about their partners’ time in college together and bonded over their connection to Pennsylvania.
Viscount had only attended one professional football game prior to this one, but her nosebleed seats couldn’t come close to the fifth-row, 25-yard-line tickets that she and Parmenter had this time around.
She has also been to two Swift concerts – one during her Fearless tour, and one during her Reputation tour. She had box seats for the first one, so meeting Swift – and her parents and brother – in a box suite at the Chiefs game was “very much a full-circle moment.”
Swift’s dad, Scott, who attended the University of Delaware, immediately came over to Viscount when he saw her Eagles hat. The two talked and he shared stories from his brief stint working at the Stone Balloon in Newark.
“I’m just shocked [at] how down-to-earth and normal and nice everybody was,” Viscount said. “Every single person I interacted with was so cool and normal.”
After the Chiefs’ victory, Viscount and Parmenter went out with Swift and the players, but Viscount said she started crashing around 2 a.m.
“I don’t know how those guys play a whole game and then go out and hang like they do, but I needed to go to bed,” she said.
The weekend of private jets, football and hanging with the big leagues has since come to an end, and Viscount is now back to working at Egg Rehoboth and the Summer House.
“Having to wait tables immediately after coming back helped bring me back to earth for sure,” she laughed. “I got the best of all worlds. I could not be more grateful.”