{"id":145155,"date":"2025-01-20T20:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T20:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/travis-kelce-introduced-himself-as-charles-as-a-child\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T20:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T20:01:45","slug":"travis-kelce-introduced-himself-as-charles-as-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/travis-kelce-introduced-himself-as-charles-as-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Kelce &#8216;introduced himself as Charles as a child&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-01-20\" datetime=\"1737403305\" pubdate=\"\">20 January 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Travis Kelce introduced himself as &#8220;Charles&#8221; as a child.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Travis Kelce was a huge fan of Charles Barkley<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old sports star &#8211; who is dating pop singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/taylor-swift\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a> &#8211; chose to adopt the nickname because Charles Barkley was his &#8220;favourite basketball player&#8221; during his younger years.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Kelce, Travis&#8217; older brother, told ESPN: &#8220;He was the crazy guy; I think we both were pretty reckless whenever the snow was falling in Cleveland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jason, 37 &#8211; who also enjoyed a hugely successful career in the NFL &#8211; vividly remembers his sibling trying to convince the &#8220;entire block&#8221; that his name was Charles, after the former professional basketball player.<\/p>\n<p>Jason said: &#8220;His favourite basketball player was Charles Barkley.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;We found out at a block party because all the other parents were like, \u2018There goes Charles.&#8217; That\u2019s the kind of kid Travis was. He was always living up to all of his sports idols, for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nIn 2024, Travis insisted that he had no plans to retire from the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Kansas City Chiefs star &#8211; who has become one of the most talked-about athletes in the world after he began dating Taylor &#8211; revealed that he had no intention of retiring from the NFL, despite lifting the Super Bowl trophy in early 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\nTravis &#8211; who starred on the TV series &#8216;Grotesquerie&#8217; last year &#8211; said on the &#8216;Rich Eisen Show&#8217;: &#8220;It didn\u2019t cross my mind one bit.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I think the excitement of the challenge of this year, being able to maybe do it a third time in a row &#8211; I think that alone was all I needed. That was an instant thought, so there was really not a chance in hell that I wasn\u2019t coming back this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/travis-kelce-introduced-charles-child-1412422.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 January 2025 Travis Kelce introduced himself as &#8220;Charles&#8221; as a child. Travis Kelce was a huge fan of Charles Barkley The 35-year-old sports star &#8211; who is dating pop singer Taylor Swift &#8211; chose to adopt the nickname because Charles Barkley was his &#8220;favourite basketball player&#8221; during his younger years. 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