\u201cWhenever I get in front of a crowd, I feel like I\u2019ve got to be like, Woooo! Like, excited, bringing the energy. Then I saw that coolness and that calmness and that relatability that she is so good at presenting. I really grabbed that. Like, Man, I can use that side of entertainment as well. It\u2019s not just always being the guy that brings the energy and creates these exciting moments.\u201d<\/p>\n
I remind him of an interview he once did in which he said his ideal partner would share some of the same qualities as his mom.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre there any similarities between the two of them?\u201d I ask.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir kindness, their genuineness, their ability to say hello to everyone in the room,\u201d he says. \u201cTheir ability to show love and support no matter what. And on top of that, their work ethic. I saw my mother reach goals that she had set for herself, go from being a teller to working all the way up in the KeyBank building.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here, thinking of his mom\u2019s determination and perseverance, Kelce gets a bit emotional and pauses briefly to collect himself. \u201cI\u2019ve seen Taylor do the exact same thing of setting goals for herself and exceeding the expectations and really captivating the world in that regard.\u201d<\/p>\n
In documentaries about the Kelce brothers, the family has been open about how Donna and Ed kept their marriage together for the sake of Travis and Jason, finally divorcing after 28 years when Travis was in college. \u201cThey were always the ultimate partners in terms of being there for us as kids,\u201d Kelce had told me. \u201cThere was no division in terms of anger at each other. I think the romance of it all might\u2019ve just kind of faded, being so focused on their careers and raising a family. It\u2019s probably hard for parents to keep that romance, especially when you\u2019ve got kids that are into fucking everything, you know? My brother was into so much more stuff than me\u2014he was a musician, he was doing all this theater stuff\u2014outside of just sports. I\u2019m doing all these sports\u2014two sports every season. So there\u2019s so much shit going on.\u201d<\/p>\n
I had asked Kelce how visible the strain in his parents\u2019 marriage was growing up, and he recalled just one, small moment. \u201cWe always had the calendar on the refrigerator of everything, and it said \u201825th anniversary\u2019 on it. Might have been 15. I don\u2019t want to get this wrong.\u201d More so than at any other point in our conversation, Kelce deliberated, scrupulously, as if he wasn\u2019t quite sure whether he should reveal this memory, and if he was going to do so then he wanted to be certain he wasn\u2019t mischaracterizing it in any way.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to get this wrong,\u201d he repeated. \u201cIt had to be around 20. Let\u2019s say 20. I remember seeing it and I was like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s their anniversary. I wonder what they\u2019re going to do.\u2019 And it was kind of just another day almost. Another day of knocking out things for the kids.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhenever I get in front of a crowd, I feel like I\u2019ve got to be like, Woooo! Like,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[83545,54555,4180,1232,8935,62,14979,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-139738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-gq-cover-story","9":"tag-gq-sports","10":"tag-magazine","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-onecolumn","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-textbelowcentergridwidth","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115015987022665272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}