Kickoff Monday: Chiefs on the Schedule, Cruise in the Row Behind Her

Season openers are supposed to be an Eagles-town affair on the calendar, but Monday Night Football pulled a different crowd tonight, with Tom Cruise seated alongside Taylor Swift for the Chiefs' first game of 2026. The Emmys went on without her. Swift chose the stadium instead, and by kickoff the choice was the story — the kind of scheduling call that tells you where someone's priorities actually sit this fall. For a Chiefs season that starts with that kind of company in the stands, expectations for the rest of the year just went up a notch.

With reporting from Town & Country.