Patrick Mahomes knows that his jet-setting friendship with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce isn’t exactly normal, but he promises they’re as down to earth as anyone else.“We were just having fun and enjoying a dinner just like anyone else would,” Mahomes, 28, told The Athletic in an interview published Tuesday, August 20, referring to his July double date with Kelce and Swift, both 34. “That’s what makes it so great. We don’t make it more than what it is; it’s just friendship, fellowship and enjoying everyone’s success.”

Patrick and his wife, Brittany Mahomes, have been spending plenty of time with Kelce and Swift in recent months, joining the pair in London and Amsterdam during the European leg of Swift’s Eras Tour.

Earlier this year, Patrick took some credit for encouraging Kelce to pursue Swift last year when they attended the Eras Tour in Kansas City. As fans know, Kelce wanted to give the pop star a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it but was unsuccessful. After he recounted the moment on his “New Heights” podcast, Swift reached out, and the rest is history.

“I like to take some of the credit because I was the one who invited Travis to his first Taylor concert when [he brought] the friendship bracelet,” Patrick said during an interview on The Pat McAfee Show in May. “He was sitting in my suite, so I feel like I was the matchmaker.”

Kelce and Swift are currently balancing the hectic Eras Tour schedule with Kelce’s upcoming NFL season, but an insider recently told Us Weekly that the duo are in their “easy era” despite their packed calendars.