“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement, and adorable photos of the NFL player embracing the Grammy-winning artist as she flaunted the ring quickly went viral on social media. It came just weeks after the singer appeared on the New Heights podcast, which is hosted by Kelce and his brother. While the photos may have made it to your feed late, it was seemingly then that the player went down on one knee to propose. This has sent the entire fandom, whether NFL fans or Swifties, into a frenzy. However, it might have happened even earlier than that.

Kelce’s father, Ed Kelce, recently sat down with News 5 Cleveland to share a few details about Kelce and Swift’s engagement. And it turns out the Chiefs’ player had proposed to his girlfriend nearly two weeks ago. Kelce’s father revealed that the player had initially planned to take a bit longer to curate some grand gestures for their big day. However, he advised him against it, suggesting he propose to her wherever the place feels special to the couple.

“He was going to put it off till this week. I think she was getting maybe a little antsy, but he was going to put her off till this week, to, you know, make some grand thing, to make it a big special event. And I told him repeatedly, you know, you could do it on the side of the road, do it any place that makes it a special event … when you get down on one knee and ask her to marry you,” he said.

Kelce may have taken his father’s advice to heart. He popped the question to the singer in a garden in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, surrounded by a heart-melting sight of flowers, which quickly broke the internet. As Kelce Sr. recalled, after the proposal, the couple quickly called their family members and friends to let them know. He was at a Philadelphia Eagles practice with 60,000 people around him when he received the call from the couple and immediately knew what they were going to say.

He had known about Travis’s plan to propose to Swift months in advance and even expected it might happen during last year’s NFL season. Recalling a recent evening in Kansas City, Ed described how Taylor cooked dinner for them and how special it was to see the couple so clearly in love. While no wedding plans have been revealed by the singer and the player yet, Kelce Sr. said he feels ready for the moment when his son ties the knot. That’s something fans would agree with. Just the engagement alone has caused massive excitement across the fandom. Swift’s striped dress that she wore for the special day quickly sold out after the news broke, which says a lot about the excitement.

The excitement isn’t just with NFL fans and Swifties, it’s clearly taken all the way to the tennis world, too.

US Open joined Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce on the celebration

Even Iga Świątek chimed in. After her match at the US Open, she was asked about the couple during her press conference. “I’m just happy for her, because she deserves the best,” she said. The proud Swiftie smiled as she added that she saw the engagement post right after stepping off the court.

The US Open also joined in on the celebration. “I wanna be your end game. Congratulations to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce on their engagement!” the tournament wrote on its official X account. They paired the message with a throwback video of the couple’s appearance at last year’s tournament, where they were spotted at Arthur Ashe Stadium on a double date with Patrick and Brittany Mahomes.

That’s extra special because Kelce has openly talked about how much he enjoyed that moment. “When you see me hanging out at the US Open with Taylor, it may look like the two of us are partying. But I’m just enjoying the fun of being at this really cool event that I always wanted to go to with the person that I love,” Kelce told GQ magazine.

Looking back now, this post by the tournament turned even more special. No doubt about it, the entire sports world is celebrating right along with them.