TRAVIS KELCE DOES A VERY TRAVIS KELCE THING

The league’s most exciting tight end got where he is by being himself. Now, with his CHIEFS SITTING ATOP THE NFL, Kansas City fans are pleading, Dear God, please just do your thing and let’s move on. Sorry, no chance

Dan Greenee

Those who know Travis Kelce best are prone to employ his name as an adjective. Cutoff denim, for instance, is very Travis. A cream Gucci suit, splattered with red drawings of a pirate Donald Duck and paired with a Smokey the Bear–style hat (his outfit at a recent charity fashion show)—that was so Travis. The most Travis thing about Kelce’s Kansas City apartment might be that he employs one of his two bedrooms as a third walk-in closet, depository for various snake-collared shirts and Christian Louboutin kicks. But when I meetKelce in his apartment building’s lounge, he is clad in an unexpectedly un-Travis outfit: white Nike tee and red gym shorts, white Nike Prestos and a black compression sleeve around his left leg. I toss out an innocuous question about whether…

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Sports Illustrated (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 16, 2017

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