Mandy Moore is following in Taylor Swift‘s footsteps whereas coming into her NFL period.
Throughout the Monday, November 3, episode of Right now With Jenna & Pals, Moore, 41, shared some particulars about teaming up with This Is Us’ Dan Fogelman on a brand new football-themed undertaking. “You guys, I really feel like Taylor Swift. I needed to study all in regards to the NFL,” Moore teased. “I knew nothing in regards to the NFL.”
Moore revealed that the still-untitled Hulu sequence began filming about two weeks prior. “It’s centered across the NFL. I play the daughter of the proprietor of an NFL workforce,” she added. “So I get to be type of a boss.”
When Jenna Bush Hager requested whether or not Moore related with Jerry Jones‘ daughter, Charlotte Jones — who’s government vp and chief model officer of the Dallas Cowboys — the actress mentioned sure and hinted on the inspiration for her character.
“[I’m playing] somebody who’s being primed to doubtlessly take over for Dad when he steps down,” Moore continued.
Like Moore, Swift, 35, has dived headfirst into the soccer world. She was first noticed at a Kansas Metropolis Chiefs recreation in September 2023 amid her romance with Travis Kelce and has been candid about her lack of sports activities data.

Taylor Swift arrives at Arrowhead Stadium in January 2025 Perry Knotts/Getty Photos
“Soccer is superior, it seems,” she joked in her 2023 Time Journal Individual of the 12 months profile, the primary time she spoke at size about courting Kelce, 36. “I’ve been lacking out my entire life.”
Earlier this 12 months, Swift made her debut on Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast, the place she shared perception into conversations the pair had on their first date.
“I legitimately requested him what it was like when the Chiefs performed the Eagles within the Tremendous Bowl and he appeared throughout the sector, throughout the road of scrimmage and noticed his brother standing on the opposite 5 ft in entrance of him on the sector,” Swift recalled in August. “I now know what an insane query that was. He was like, ‘Really, I’m on the offense and my brother’s on the offense, and I’m solely on the sector concurrently the protection.’”
Swift confessed that she “thought everybody was on there on the identical time,” however she’s come a great distance together with her data of the sport. “I fell in love with it,” she defined. “I grew to become obsessive about it. I grew to become an individual who was working by the halls of my home, screaming, ‘We drafted Xavier Worthy!’ And my pals are like, ‘Who body-snatched you? What do you imply?’”
The pop star joked, “I’m not able to be an analyst proper now, however give me 16 months.”
The couple introduced their engagement later that month after two years of courting, and Swift has continued to cheer for her future husband all through the NFL season.
As for Moore, she’s scooped up some all-star teammates of her personal for Fogelman’s soccer undertaking, which hits Hulu subsequent 12 months. In keeping with Selection, William H. Macy will star because the workforce proprietor, with Christopher Meloni enjoying the pinnacle coach.

