Colin Kaepernick Says His Mom Told Him to Date Taylor Swift, Thought They ‘Would Be Perfect Together’

Taylor Swift was always meant to be with an NFL star, in the eyes of Colin Kaepernick’s mom.

Though the pop star would ultimately married Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs in 2026, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback wrote in his memoir published Tuesday (Sept.

15), The Perilous Fight , that his mother, Teresa, once suggested he date Swift.

Kaepernick used the moment as an example of how his parents, who are white and adopted him when he was baby, didn’t understand his true personality and identity as a person of color.

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“Years later, when I was in the NFL, she told me that I should ask out Taylor Swift (long before Travis Kelce made his move) because we would be perfect together.” The civil rights activist added, “No slight to Taylor, but she was not my type.” Kaepernick — who is biracial and identifies as a Black man — contrasted this anecdote with another memory of his mom being unsupportive of his high-school relationship with a Black classmate named Crystal.

“I asked Crystal to the homecoming dance, a formal affair involving fancy gowns, tuxedoes and corsages. … When I got the official portrait from that night, featuring me and Crystal posed up in that classic, airbrushed frame, my mother hid it away in the back of a drawer,” he wrote.

“My mother convinced me to ask Lindsay, the daughter of one of her friends, to the next formal dance,” the athlete continued.

“Lindsay was white.

When I brought that picture home, my mother promptly plastered it on the wall for all to see.

In her mind, Crystal was just a phase.

Lindsay was the kind of girl I should want.” Both Swift and Kaepernick would get their happy endings.

The latter is married to radio personality Nessa Diab, with whom he welcomed a child in 2022.

Their nuptials weren’t quite as high-profile as the 14-time Grammy winner’s, which took place over Fourth of July weekend this year with a reported 1,000 guests in attendance at Madison Square Garden in New York City.