The same weekend a star football player was making headlines marrying a pop music icon in New York, his coach was making a patriotic speech in Salt Lake City.

Two days after Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift exchanged vows at Madison Square Garden, Chiefs coach Andy Reid took to the stage in the Tabernacle as the guest narrator for Sunday’s broadcast of “Music and the Spoken Word” with The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square.

During the performance honoring the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Hall of Fame-bound coach — who did attend the Swift-Kelce wedding — urged Americans to keep building a “more perfect union.”

Reid, a winner of three Super Bowls, said the nation’s founding documents — the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution — provide a “game plan to keep moving toward ... a ‘more perfect union.’”

“Whether on the football field, in our communities, or in our homes, progress can at times feel like an uphill climb,” said Reid, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “But I’ve learned that when people come together for a common goal — when they respect and support one another — progress happens. That’s what a team does. It works to get better every single day.”

Reid, the winningest Latter-day Saint football coach in NFL history, pointed to the declaration’s statement that “all [people] are created equal . . . [and] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” including “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

These truths “help us make better decisions — and correct our mistakes,” he said. “Even in difficult times, they remind us to keep going. To keep building. To keep improving.”

Sunday’s show aired on C-SPAN, NewsNation, BYUtv, and NBC stations in Salt Lake City, Boston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and Kansas City.

It also drew a who’s who of top Latter-day Saint leaders, including church President Dallin Oaks, apostles Dieter Uchtdorf, Quentin Cook and Gary Stevenson, along with President Camille Johnson, head of the faith’s worldwide women’s Relief Society.

After the broadcast, Reid highlighted the country’s staying power.

“Two hundred and fifty years is a lot of time,” he said. “To be as strong as we still are, and as united as we’re continuously working on being, is something special.”

The church-owned Deseret News also reported that Reid revealed the advice comedian-actor Adam Sandler, who officiated the Swift-Kelce wedding, gave the couple during the ceremony.

“He told them, ‘Keep kissing,’” Reid said. “So, in its simplest form, that’s a good thing. It’s hard to argue when you give your wife a kiss, or your wife gives you a kiss. And make sure you do it every day, every minute that you have an opportunity to do it.”