Revelations that Travis Kelce was preventing a “big illness” earlier than the Tremendous Bowl is fueling on-line chatter about his choice to dine out with girlfriend Taylor Swift, teammate Patrick Mahomes and Mahomes’ spouse Brittany at a complicated New Orleans restaurant, fewer than 48 hours earlier than the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs suffered a humiliating defeat to the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Chiefs normal supervisor Brett Veach shared the information of Kelce’s sickness throughout an upcoming episode of the NFL podcast, “The Insiders.” Noting that he wasn’t “making excuses” for the Chiefs’ loss, Veach instructed host Tom Pelissero Tuesday that the tight finish was “battling a pretty big illness” earlier than the Chiefs misplaced to the Eagles 40-22 on Feb. 9.
Veach didn’t specify the character of the sickness however quipped that it wouldn’t have had that a lot of an affect on the rating because the Eagles performed so properly. “We didn’t have the end to our season that we hoped for,” he added.
Veach lamented that the Chiefs “picked a bad day to have a bad day” however promised that the workforce would use the loss as “motivation to get better,” and he additionally downplayed hypothesis that Kelce would retire. He mentioned “we anticipate Travis being back” for the 2025 season.
A variety of folks on-line had issues to say about Kelce’s “big illness” revelation, as they responded to Pelissero sharing a clip of his interview with the overall supervisor on X. Some blasted Veach for making “excuses,” whereas others introduced up Kelce’s controversial double-date with Swift and the Mahomes on the Friday evening earlier than the Tremendous Bowl.
The 2 {couples} had been closely documented by photographers, coming into and leaving the favored French restaurant Lilette, the Every day Mail reported. A big crowd of followers additionally gathered to catch a glimpse of the world-famous pop star on a double date together with her NFL star boyfriend and his quarterback good friend, fewer than two days earlier than many hoped could be their workforce’s third-straight Tremendous Bowl victory. The 2 {couples} stayed on the restaurant for a couple of hours and left at 10 p.m., stories mentioned.
Pictures confirmed a beaming Swift, carrying a black costume and matching designer boots. Kelce, although, seemed “unfocused,” followers famous after the images had been revealed the following day, the Every day Mail reported.
Whereas there was no suggestion that Kelce and Mahomes broke any NFL guidelines by having fun with New Orleans’ eating scene earlier than the Tremendous Bowl, the gamers’ look on the restaurant was nonetheless a shock on condition that it’s so near the sport.
Over Tremendous Bowl weekend, followers nervous that Kelce was being complacent and breaking his personal rule about not going out and socializing within the week earlier than the large sport, the Every day Mail reported. The 12 months earlier than, forward of the Chiefs defeating the San Francisco 49ers within the 2024 Tremendous Bowl in Las Vegas, Kelce mentioned on his New Heights podcast, ‘We’ve obtained one week, we do what we have to do then we are able to celebration in Vegas for the remainder of our lives.”
Now, followers have extra questions on whether or not Kelce was actually battling a “big illness” if he was in a position to take pleasure in a flowery French dinner, at what’s been described as New Orleans “sexiest restaurant.”
“If he was sick, why was he out and about in New Orleans before the game?” one particular person requested, whereas one other mentioned, “Funny he looked fine in his double date night with paps swarming two nights before the superbowl. False narrative to justify poor play.”
Elsewhere on the web, an individual commenting on a Folks journal story about Veach’s feedback questioned when Kelce began to really feel sick. “Odd how that illness he had didn’t bother him all week when they showed him out with Taylor at clubs and eating dinner,” the particular person mentioned. “That isn’t illness that’s called HANGOVERS.”
Some folks pushed again on the hangover accusation, whereas others famous that it’s attainable for a flu-type sickness or meals poisoning to out of the blue strike. Nonetheless, one other particular person mentioned he can’t think about why a prime skilled athlete, who’s “literally paid millions,” would exit if he was already feeling beneath the climate or would in any other case do something to harm his skill to play his finest at “the biggest event” in his profession.
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