Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce has made greater than $93 million in profession NFL earnings, and has a lot to spend on a birthday present for Taylor Swift. However his blue-collar Ohio father apparently is not going to stretch himself too skinny for the event.
Kelce’s father, Ed Kelce, mentioned that he plans to solely spend $10 on a gift for his son’s pop star girlfriend this yr.
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Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce attend the lads’s closing match between the USA’s Taylor Fritz and Italy’s Jannik Sinner on day 14 of the U.S. Open tennis match on the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Heart in New York Metropolis on Sept. 8. (Kena Betancur/AFP through Getty Pictures)
“You are not going to crush Taylor Swift with a present that value, you realize, $100,000. You have to get one thing that tweaks the strings of her coronary heart that you simply spend 10 bucks on,” Ed mentioned throughout an look on the “Baskin & Phelps” podcast. “Then she’ll simply be all gooey. You have to discover one thing that triggers the emotion.”
Ed, a former steelworker and Coast Guard service member, believes that there is not any level in spending an excessive amount of on somebody like Swift, who has the means to realize something she desires as a billionaire.
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Taylor Swift stands with Donna Kelce after the AFC Championship recreation between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Financial institution Stadium in Baltimore on Jan. 28. (AP Picture/Julio Cortez)
“The sum of money is meaningless,” he mentioned. “There’s nothing they need that they do not have already got. It’s important to look past that. You have to dig down and give you one thing particular.”
Swift turned 35 on Friday, and is into her second full yr in her relationship with the NFL star.
Kelce has confronted mounting strain to suggest to Swift after Buffalo Payments quarterback Josh Allen obtained engaged to actress Hailee Steinfeld on the finish of November. Followers have referred to as on Kelce to drop to 1 knee for Swift on all social media channels as the 2 at the moment are every formally within the second half of their 30s.
If and when that day comes, Swift will look to embrace Ed and Kelce’s mom Donna as in-laws, however she probably will not count on high-end presents from both of the 2 dad and mom, based mostly on Ed’s philosophy.
Whereas Ed made a profession within the metal trade, he comes from a navy background.
“Everyone in my household previous to me was within the service,” Ed mentioned on an episode of Travis and his brother Jason’s “New Heights” podcast in February 2023. “We’re additionally speaking about household [that] lived via World Battle II, so that is what everyone did as a result of that was the background.”
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Taylor Swift turned 35 on Friday, and is into her second full yr in her relationship with NFL star Travis Kelce. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Ed didn’t go into the Military as a result of he had a pre-existing knee harm. He joined the Coast Guard, however needed to depart boot camp after it was found he had Crohn’s illness.
After becoming a member of the metal trade, Ed made certain to carry his sons Travis and Jason to work with him on the mill to point out them what that line of labor regarded like.
“I might take them there — laborious hat, security glasses, boots, the entire 9 yards,” he advised the Los Angeles Instances. “I might inform them, ‘You may have a job like your mom’s, or you possibly can have a job like mine.'”
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