Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has more than $93 million in career NFL earnings, and he has a lot to spend on a birthday present. For Taylor Swift. But her blue-collar Ohio dad apparently isn’t spreading himself too thin for the occasion.
Callis’ father, Ed Kellssaid he plans to spend just $10 on a gift for his son’s pop star girlfriend this year.
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“You’re not going to crush Taylor Swift with a gift that’s, you know, $100,000. You’ve got to get something that touches her heartstrings that you spend 10 bucks on,” Ed said in a statement. said during the appearance. “Baskin and Phelps” Podcast. “Then she’s going to go completely bonkers. You’ve got to find something to trigger the emotions.”
Ed, a former steelworker and member of the Coast Guard Service, believes there’s no point in spending so much on someone like Swift, who as a billionaire has the means to get anything he wants.
Taylor Swift stands with Donna Kelce after the AFC Championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on January 28. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
He said that the amount of money is meaningless. “They don’t want anything they don’t already have. You have to look beyond that. You have to dig down 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.
Kelce faced increasing pressure to propose to Swift after Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen got engaged to actress Hailee Steinfeld in late November. Fans have called for Kelce to take a knee for Swift on all social media channels as the two are now officially in the second half of their 30s.
If and when that day comes, Swift will be seen embracing Ed and Kelis’ mother Donna as in-laws, but she doesn’t expect high-profile gifts from either parent based on Ed’s philosophy. will
While Ed pursued a career in the steel industry, he comes from a military background.
“Everybody in my family was in the service before me,” Ed said on an episode of Travis and his brother Jason’s “New Heights” podcast in February 2023. “We are also talking about family. [that] Lived during World War II, so that’s what everybody did because that was the background.”
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Taylor Swift turned 35 on Friday, and she’s in the second full year of her relationship with NFL star Travis Kelce. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)
Ed didn’t go into the Army because he had a pre-existing knee injury. He joined the Coast Guard, but had to leave boot camp after being diagnosed with Crohn’s disease.
After joining the steel industry, Ed made sure to bring his sons Travis and Jason to work with him at the mill to show them what that line of work was like.
“I’ll take them there — hard hat, safety glasses, boots, the whole nine yards,” he explained. Los Angeles Times. “I would tell them, ‘You can get a job like your mom, or you can get a job like mine.'”
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