By Wonderwall.com Editors
2:47pm PST, Feb 11, 2024
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Stand by your man! It seems that NFL wives and girlfriends — more commonly known as WAGS — are getting nearly as much screen time as their athletic men these days. In a few cases, you could argue that the women even overshadow the men! Join us as we look back at a few top players from the NFL playoffs — which saw the Chiefs defeat the Ravens for the AFC Championship title and the 49ers defeat the Lions for the NFC Championship title on Jan. 28, 2024, sending both teams to the Super Bowl on Feb. 11 — and their prominent partners…
Kyle Juszczyk's wife, Kristin Juszczyk, skyrocketed to stardom this season when her custom clothing business, Designs By Kristin, suddenly took off after Taylor Swift donned one of her pieces.
Kristin — who married the San Francisco 49ers fullback in 2019 — is known for creating super-chic one-of-a-kind pieces from repurposed football jerseys and other team-branded pieces.
Taylor wore a puffy jacket made by Kristin from a Travis Kelce jersey to a Kansas Chiefs game in January, and the outfit went viral.
Kyle soon proved to be his wife's biggest hype man: "Rocking the jacket made by Kristin Juszczyk!!" Kyle commented on a video of Taylor wearing the look. He commented on another clip, "Made by my wife!!"
Kristin's also crafted pieces for other high-profile women including Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes' wife, Brittany Mahomes; Green Bay Packers safety Jonathan Owens' wife, gymnast Simone Biles; and San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey's fiancée, former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo.
Since going viral, Kristin struck a merchandising deal with the NFL that allows her to officially to use their logos on her designs.
But she's hardly the only WAG getting attention this season.
With the AFC and NFC championships done and dusted and the Super Bowl ready to host the Chiefs and 49ers in Las Vegas, Wonderwall.com is highlighting more of the women behind the final four team's players…
MORE: The best photos of Travis Kelce and his No. 1 fan from the Chiefs vs. Ravens AFC Championship game
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Brittany Mahomes and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes got together in high school. They welcomed their first child together in 2021, tied the knot in 2022 and added another baby to their brood at the end of that year.
Like her husband, Brittany is a former college athlete. She also played sports professionally before marrying Patrick…
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Back when she was known as Brittany Matthews, Brittany Mahomes played soccer for the University of Texas at Tyler where she set scoring records.
She then played one season of professional soccer for a team in Iceland.
She might not compete anymore, but Brittany is still heavily involved in the pro soccer world: She's a co-owner of the Kansas City Current, which was founded as an expansion team in the National Women's Soccer League in 2021.
In 2024, Brittany was named a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Rookie for the magazine's 60th anniversary issue.
MORE: The best pictures of Travis Kelce from his record-breaking Chiefs vs. Ravens AFC Championship game
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In 2012, model Olivia Culpo — who started dating 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey in early 2019 — was crowned both Miss USA and Miss Universe.
Before Christian — who proposed in 2023 — she dated Nick Jonas and a different professional football player: Danny Amendola.
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Claire Kittle and her husband, San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle, met during his freshman year of college and eloped in April 2019. Claire, who is incredibly close with many other 49ers WAGs, rarely misses a game in which her husband is playing.
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Bachelor Nation knows Fred Warner's wife, Sydney Hightower, from her stint on Peter Weber's season of "The Bachelor" in 2020. She and the San Francisco 49ers All-Pro got engaged in May 2021 following a courtship of a little more than a year. They tied the knot the following year and are expecting a baby in March 2023.
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Mecole Hardman Jr. and his girlfriend, Chariah Gordon, welcomed a baby boy on Super Bowl Sunday in 2023 — while his team, the Kansas City Chiefs, were playing in the big game! (Mecole was not playing at the time due to an injury.) Chariah is the founder of skincare line The GLO Collection and was once an aspiring musician. Mecole has called Chariah his "ride or die."
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Taylor Swift has become a bit of a staple at Kansas City Chiefs games — where cameras dutifully zero in on her as she watches boyfriend Travis Kelce play. "I'm just there to support Travis," she told Time in December 2023. "I have no awareness of if I'm being shown too much and [upsetting] a few dads, Brads and Chads."
"Football is awesome, it turns out. I've been missing out my whole life," she added.
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Lions quarterback Jared Goff and his fiancée, model and actress Christen Harper, are Sports Illustrated royalty: They've both graced the pages. (She posed for the 2022 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.) The couple met on a dating app in 2019 — the same year Christen appeared in the films "Auggie" and "The Obituary of Tunde Johnson" — and got engaged in Mexico in June 2022.
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Zach Ertz's wife, Julie Ertz, is a two-time winner of the Women's World Cup and an Olympian. (She's one of the most celebrated players in the history of women's soccer — no biggie!) Julie and Zach, who signed with the Detroit Lions ahead of the NFC Championship Game, welcomed a son in the summer of 2022. She's been seen supporting him at his games over the years — and vice versa!
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Reece Damm, Kyle Hamilton's girlfriend since high school, went viral in 2022 because of the intricate handshake she shared with the NFL stud. (They were filmed doing it the night he got drafted into the NFL by the Baltimore Ravens.) "My girlfriend and I started dating in sophomore year of high school, and I think we came up with the handshake in junior year or something like that," Kyle told reporters. "We've just been doing it ever since, and we just decided it seemed like the right time to do it. Everybody else agreed and she's kind of famous now, I guess."
Reece is an aspiring R&B musician and has reportedly released an EP called "Prosperous," an album named "The Collection" and a single called "Two Sides."
