Swifties who like ‘cringy’ guys defend Travis Kelce howling ‘Viva Las Vegas’ — again

Will we ever hear a bursting-with-joy Travis Kelce howl “viva Las Vegas” again? Place those bets now.

He did it the first time on national TV in February after the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, in Vegas.

Geographically speaking it was appropriate and not surprising to Chiefs fans familiar with how Kelce shouts like a revved-up Adam Sandler (one of his comedic idols) when he’s happy and has a mic in his hand.

“You gotta fight, for your right, to paaaaaaaaaaarty!”

Someone handed him a mic on stage Saturday night at a gala for teammate Patrick Mahomes’ 15 and Mahomies charity … in Vegas.

Kelce’s girlfriend, Taylor Swift, was there, sitting at a front-row table with Mahomes and his wife, Brittany Mahomes.

And once again Kelce hollered “Viva, Las Vegas,” leaving this puzzled Instagram begging for help when the moment popped up on social media.

“Why does that guy keep saying Viva las Vegas? Did they meet in Vegas? Is it a song? What’s the deal? Someone please.”

Yes, dear Instagram user, “Viva Las Vegas” is a song, sung in the early ‘60s by the king of rock ‘n’ roll himself, Elvis Presley, for his movie of the same name.

And Kelce and Swift did not meet in Vegas (as far as we know), but she was there for the Super Bowl. She was on the field near the stage when Kelce viva-ed all over national TV. Cameras showed her face close up.

For days, social media debated whether she was cringing/embarrassed because, boy, it sure looked like it, argued folks who couldn’t possibly know.

But this time a lip reader has entered the debate, triggering new headlines about whether Swift got “the ick” when she heard Kelce do it again.

Jackie Gonzalez, who goes by @tismejackieg, suggests that Swift turned to whoever was sitting next to her at the table Saturday and said, “that again. I can’t do it” as Kelce roared in front of the well-dressed ballroom crowd.

Gonzalez — who calls herself “ur local deafie” — is making a name for herself by reading the lips of celebrities on the red carpet and elsewhere in public, including Swift and Kelce on a recent lunch date.

She hedges her bets with this disclaimer on her post: “Lip reading is not a reliable form of communication, all statements are alleged.”

And that’s very true. Reading lips is not dependable, as Oscar followers discovered earlier year when lip readers erroneously insisted that best actress winner Emma Stone referred to show host Jimmy Kimmel by a four-letter word. (She later denied it.)

Whether or not Swift was bothered by Kelce’s exuberance doesn’t really matter to Swifties.

They like him. They really like him.

“Honestly after being attracted to pretentious art bros her whole life, she deserves someone secure enough to be a little cringe. We all do,” one fan wrote on the lip reader’s post, and similar comments followed.

“If he doesn’t make you cringe its not true love.”

“My husband of 23 years still does stuff that makes me shake my head too. He’s a dork but he is my dork.”

“My parents have been married 54 years. My dad still says things that make my mom laughingly cringe and say she can’t take him anywhere. We accept his corny lines and laugh. This is adorable.”

“Corny cringy boyfriends are the ones that make the best husbands.”

Swift heads back to the Eras Tour next week, first stop in Paris, where Kelce could join her.

Maybe he’ll find a chance to belt Joni Mitchell’s “Free Man in Paris”?