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Football fans have long been aware of the famous Kelce family, with sons Travis<\/strong><\/a> and Jason<\/strong> playing for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, respectively. However, the Kelces have reached a new level of popularity amid Travis\u2019 romance<\/a> with Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/a>. The pop star was spotted with Travis\u2019 mom, Donna Kelce<\/strong>, at a Chiefs game and reportedly met his dad, Ed Kelce<\/strong>, too. So, who are Travis\u2019 parents and what were their first impressions of Taylor?<\/p>\n Before his retirement, Ed worked as a sales rep in the steel and metal industry. The Cleveland, Ohio, native comes from a military family and tried himself to join the service, but a knee injury caused his applicated for the Army to be rejected. Ed then enlisted for the Coast Guard but had to quit during boot camp due to a Crohn\u2019s disease diagnosis.<\/p>\n Travis and Jason\u2019s father was heavily involved in their athletic lives growing up. However, despite both brothers going on to play for the NFL, they actually started out playing tee ball and baseball, with Ed as their coach.<\/p>\n \u201cThe first thing you did was you were a toddler on the living room floor and you rolled a ball to me, you rolled it back and we played that way and that\u2019s where it all started,\u201d Ed once told his sons on their \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n Donna, who is also retired, used to work in finance. With encouragement from her mother, Mary, Donna \u2014 affectionately known by fans as Mama Kelce \u2014 graduated from Ohio University with a bachelor\u2019s degree in communications in 1981, according to her LinkedIn<\/a>. She then received her master\u2019s in business administration from Baldwin Wallace University in 1983.<\/p>\n Donna started her career as an equity writer for Bank One and worked her way up to vice president. Before retiring in 2021, she worked as the senior vice president at Truist for 11 years.<\/p>\n Donna is also Travis and Jason\u2019s biggest fan when it comes to their football careers. She once traveled 1,300 miles in the same day to see her sons play in games on opposite sides of the country! Additionally, when Travis and Jason became the first siblings to face off against each other in a Super Bowl in 2023, she wore a split Eagles and Chiefs jersey to support both of her boys.<\/p>\n Donna and Ed met at a bar that Donna stopped at on her way to meet another man for a date. She and Ed started talking and hit it off, so Donna skipped her date, and the rest is history. They tied the knot in the late \u201870s.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, Donna and Ed\u2019s marriage<\/a> didn\u2019t last. They got a divorce<\/a> after nearly 25 years, splitting up after Jason and Travis graduated college. In Kelce<\/em>, the September 2023 documentary about Jason, Donna and Ed revealed that they tried to stay together while raising their kids. However, Jason and Travis did notice tension between their parents.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew my mom and dad\u2019s situation was different than other parents,\u201d Travis said in the doc. \u201cI would go have sleepovers at other houses and the other parents are staying in the room, and my parents didn\u2019t stay in the same room. I started making those connections when I was in middle school, and I realized that they were probably gonna split. But they stayed together for me and Jason\u2019s benefit I believe.\u201d<\/p>\n Even though they aren\u2019t together anymore, Donna and Ed have remained friends. Mama Kelce reassured her sons on \u201cNew Heights\u201d that she doesn\u2019t \u201chate\u201d Ed.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re friends to this day. We get along great,\u201d she said. \u201cWe were like a tag team with you two. We got to do all sorts of fun things. When one of you had to go out of town, the other person would help with the other child. It was perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n After weeks of dating rumors, Taylor made her first appearance at a Chiefs game<\/a> to support Travis on September 24, 2023. She sat in the box with Donna and cheered Travis on. The NFL star spoke about the experience<\/a> on \u201cNew Heights,\u201d revealing that his family had \u201cnothing but great things to say\u201d about Taylor.<\/p>\n \u201cShe looked amazing, and everybody was talking about her in great light,\u201d Travis added. \u201cTo see the slow-motion chest bumps, to see the high fives with Mom, to see how, you know, Chiefs kingdom was all excited that she was there \u2014 that s\u2013t was absolutely hysterical, and it was definitely a game I\u2019ll remember, that\u2019s for damn sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWho Is Travis Kelce\u2019s Dad Ed Kelce?<\/h2>\n
Who Is Travis Kelce\u2019s Mom Donna Kelce?<\/h2>\n
Are Travis Kelce\u2019s Parents Still Married?<\/h2>\n
What Do Travis Kelce\u2019s Parents Think of Taylor Swift?<\/h2>\n