Travis Kelce on his future: ‘Hopefully [I’m] still playing football’ in 3 years

Travis Kelce has no plans to retire anytime quickly even when the Kansas City Chiefs win a 3rd straight Tremendous Bowl on Sunday.

The longer term plans for the 35-year-old Kelce have been a lingering query as his fame has risen off the sphere because of his relationship with pop star Taylor Swift and a media profession because of one of the crucial common sports activities podcasts.

Travis Kelce addresses his NFL future | Tremendous Bowl LIX Opening Evening

Kelce was requested at opening evening festivities Monday evening earlier than Kansas Metropolis performs Philadelphia within the Tremendous Bowl the place he plans to be in three years.

“Hopefully nonetheless enjoying soccer,” he stated. “I really like doing this, I really like coming into work day-after-day. I really feel like I nonetheless have a number of good soccer left in me. We’ll see what occurs. I do know I have been setting myself up for different alternatives in my life. That is all the time been the objective realizing soccer solely lasts for thus lengthy. It’s a must to discover a solution to get into one other profession and one other career. I have been doing that in my offseason. However for essentially the most half, I plan on being a Kansas Metropolis Chief and enjoying soccer.”

Kelce continues to be enjoying at a excessive degree even when he has fallen off a bit from his peak. He had 97 catches this season however solely gained 823 yards and scored three TDs.

Kelce had a throwback sport within the divisional-round win over Houston with seven catches for 117 yards and enters the Tremendous Bowl with essentially the most catches ever within the playoffs (174) and second to Corridor of Famer Jerry Rice in yards receiving (2,039) and TD catches (20).

Kelce was one of the crucial common gamers with the media throughout opening evening with a big group of reporters and others surrounding his podium for the whole hour, peppering him with questions on all types of matters from soccer to dances as to if he deliberate to present Swift a hoop if the Chiefs win on Sunday. He shortly responded, “A Tremendous Bowl ring? Subsequent query.”

Kelce did say his relationship with Swift helps him on the soccer discipline by offering motivation that he must work as laborious as she does to stay on the prime of his sport.

“I higher maintain up my finish of the cut price,” he stated. “If she’s out right here being the celebrity she is, by no means taking no for a solution, and all the time working her tail off, I higher match that vitality for certain.”

Reporting by The Related Press.

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