Turns out we’ve been pronouncing Travis Kelce’s last name wrong this entire time.
A clip of a side conversation in which Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones explains that we all say Kelce is incorrect is shocking hundreds of thousands on Instagram.
“So you know he’s not even Travis ‘Kel-see’?” he asks a teammate during the Jan. 13 playoff game against the Miami Dolphins.
“[It’s] Travis ‘Kels’. Yeah, well, fucking crazy, right? he continued.
However, it was not the first time someone clarified the pronunciation. Travis and his brother Jason went into more detail during a February 2023 installment of their new heights podcast. Because it surprised them too.
Jason and Travis Kelce didn’t know they were pronouncing their name wrong
The brothers thought their father, Ed, had “changed” his last name, but Ed said no, he just gave up on people doing it right.
“Why did you change your name out of nowhere?” -Jason asked.
“I never changed my name out of the blue,” Ed replied. “I got tired of correcting people.”
“So you changed your entire family’s name over generations…because you were tired of correcting people,” Jason asked as Travis laughed.
Jason shared that he and Travis didn’t even know they were mispronouncing their names until they were in their 20s. He said his mother, Donna, also assumed she was saying it right when she wasn’t.
“That was the name I used at work,” Ed shrugged. “That was the name of my job.”
Ed told his kids to “do whatever they wanted” when it came to how to pronounce Kelce. Travis said he will respond to any of the variations. But Jason is not willing to change.
“Don’t call me ‘Kels,’” he said.
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