NEW YORK, June 13 -- Travis Kelce had reasons to skip Thursday night. The Kansas City Chiefs were in the middle of their offseason minicamp, the four days the NFL gives veterans to remember the playbook and the rookies to remember why they wanted this job. Kelce flew out anyway. He landed in New York in time to sit through a four-hour gala at the Marriott Marquis and watch his fiancee become the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

The tight end made the trip directly from Chiefs minicamp to attend the 55th annual induction gala, ESPN reported, and was joined by his mother Donna Kelce, Swift's mother Andrea Swift, and Swift's brother Austin. The traveling party was less couple-on-a-red-carpet than family-at-a-g...