Kansas City Chiefs running back Travis Kelce has made more than $93 million in NFL earnings, and he has plenty to spend on a birthday present. For Taylor Swift. But it looks like his blue-collar Ohio father isn't going to go out of his way for the occasion.
kelsey's father, Ed KelseyHe said he plans to spend just $10 on a gift for his son's pop star girlfriend this year.
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Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs Travis Kelce attend the men's final between American Taylor Fritz and Italian Jannik Sinner on Day 14 of the US Open at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City on September 14.8. (Kina Bettencourt/AFP via Getty Images)
“You're not going to crush Taylor Swift with a gift that costs, you know, $100,000. She should get something that tugs at her heartstrings and spend $10 on it,” Ed said during an appearance on the show. Baskin and Phelps podcast.. “Then it'll be all sticky. You've got to find something that's emotional.”
Ed, a former steelworker and member of the Coast Guard service, believes there is no point in spending a lot on someone like Swift, who has the means to achieve anything she wants as a billionaire.
Taylor Swift poses with Donna Kelce after the AFC Championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on January 28. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
“The amount of money is meaningless,” he said. “There's nothing they want that they don't already have. You have to look beyond that. You have to dig in and come up with something special.”
Swift turned 35 on Friday, and is in the second full year of her relationship with the NFL star.
Kelsey has faced increasing pressure to propose to Swift after Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen got engaged to actress Hailee Steinfeld at the end of November. Fans have called for Kelce to get down on one knee for Swift on all social media channels as they are both now officially in the second half of their 30s.
When that day comes, Swift will look forward to embracing Ed's mother Donna and Kelsey as in-laws, but she probably won't expect upscale gifts from either parent, based on Ed's philosophy.
While Ed has worked in the steel industry, he comes from a military background.
“Everyone in my family before me was in the service,” Ed told Travis and his brother Jason on a February 2023 episode of the New Heights radio show. “We also talk about the family (that) lived through World War II and that's what everyone did because that was the background.”
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Taylor Swift turned 35 on Friday, and is in the second full year of her relationship with NFL star Travis Kelce. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)
Ed did not go into the army because he had a previous knee injury. He joined the Coast Guard, but had to leave boot camp after it was discovered he had Crohn's disease.
After joining the steel industry, Ed brought his two sons, Travis and Jason, to work with him at the mill to show them what this type of work looked like.
“I'll take them there — hard hat, safety glasses, boots, the whole nine yards,” he told The New York Times. Los Angeles Times. “I tell them: You can get a job like your mother's job, or you can get a job like mine.”
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