Jason and Kaylee Kelsey
Courtesy of Kylie Kelsey/InstagramLove at first wasn't a swipe Jason Kelsey and his wife, Kylie Kelsey.
“(My friends and I) were messing around, so I swiped right,” Kylie, 32, said of coming across her current husband’s Tinder account during the Sunday, January 12, episode of “Sunday Sports Club.” Podcast. “We matched (and) I sent him a little line. I was like, 'I need a LifeAlert.' I've fallen in love with you and I can't get back.”
Apparently Jason, 37, wasn't a fan of Kylie's opening line.
“He sent a message and was like, ‘No, you have to try harder,’” Kylie said He was called to the NFL Wives Alison Koch. Then she sent a message saying: If I told you I worked for UPS. Would you let me handle your package? He was like: “Much better.” I like this much better. …And here we are, almost four kids later.”
Jason Kelsey swiped right and found love with Kylie Kelsey — even if their first date got off to a rocky start. “(I) definitely slept,” the former Philadelphia Eagles athlete recalled on his “New Heights” radio show in September 2023. “I was a little drunk, but I was sober enough to know that it was[…]
Jason and Kylie matched On a dating app In 2015 during his early stint as a center with the Philadelphia Eagles. At the time, Kylie was a student at Cabrini University but never realized the extent of Jason's professional soccer career until she met him in person. (He retired in 2024 after playing 14 seasons with Philadelphia.)
“He said in his Tinder bio that he wanted to cuddle and have intimate conversations about having kids, which was sarcastic but ended up being very ironic,” Kylie joked. “But then, we kept messaging and it was, like, fun, getting to know you (conversations) and after a little while I kept thinking to myself that his pictures looked familiar.”
Kylie and her friends tried to look for Jason online using “all the information they had”, which led them straight to the Vultures.
“My friends and I, of course, were like, 'It's a catfish,'” the “Not Gonna Lie” podcast host recalls. “So, when he said, 'You should meet us at this bar,' my only friend who's like my ride-or-die friend…she was like, 'We should go because if it's him, it'll be funny (and) if it's not him,' It's even funnier.
Jason Kelsey swiped right to find love with his now-wife, Kylie Kelsey, but their first date was anything but smooth sailing. “It was pretty clear the second we went out (that this was going on somewhere),” Kylie, 31, said during the Wednesday, September 6, episode of her husband's show New Heights. When Jason (35 years old) asked why (…)
Kylie met Jason at a local bar in Philly hours after his team's holiday party. like It's been mentioned previously On him and his brother Travis KelseyOn the “New Heights” podcast several times, he fell asleep on top of the bar within 45 minutes. His colleague at the time Beau Allen He was He was recruited into the “Firefighter's Carry.” His home.
Jason eventually apologized to Kylie For his drunkennessand asked for a second chance upon the first impression which in the end went much more smoothly. Per Kylie, they talked smoothly for three hours, and continued to talk during subsequent dates.
“The year I was RA (at Cabrini) … he would come to campus, and he would stay in my dorm more than once,” Kylie recalls. “I would have students in class a couple of days later and say, ‘Oh, so-and-so was talking about how they walked until 8 a.m. and (saw) Jason Kelsey walking across campus to go to his truck.’ I would say, ‘This guy must love me. Really because why the hell would he be on (campus).”
Jason and Kylie finally married in 2018, one year before welcoming their daughter, Wyatt. They will be followed by daughters Ellie and Bennett in 2021 and 2023, respectively I expect now Another baby girl in 2025.
