When Taylor Swift took the stage at the Tight Ends & Friends event at Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville last week as part of Tight End University, hosted by her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce,

This year’s edition of TEU included a surprise appearance from Kelce’s girlfriend Taylor Swift, who took the stage to perform during the “Tight Ends and Friends” portion of the weekend. The gathered crowd, understandably, went nuts. On this week’s episode of the New Heights podcast, Kelce explained how the surprise cameo came together.

Taylor Swift stunned fans with a surprise TEU performance, and Travis Kelce revealed the behind-the-scenes story of how it all happened

Kelce also mentioned the grueling nature of the week of preparation leading up to the gig of hosting “SNL,” saying, “You’re there all week, up ‘til 2, 3 in the morning everyday, just trying to knock stuff out, do some of the prerecorded stuff. That was insane, that was a crazy ride.”

But Travis Kelce says his biggest challenge came before the audience had even filed in. The Kansas City Chiefs' star tight end reflected fondly on parts of pre-production his stint as host of the March 4,

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce struggled with this key part of hosting SNL, but it was smooth sailing after that.