Fans are baffled by how you’re actually meant to pronounce Travis Kelce.
So, now that we’ve all been hearing and reading his name since he became an item with none other than Taylor Swift, people thought they’d cracked the pronunciation.
Wrong.
It was only after the Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle, Chris Jones talked about Kelce that everyone realised how they’d been saying it wrong all along.
An Inside the NFL clip saw Jones on the bench during the Chiefs versus Dolphins game where he says: “So y’all know it’s not even ‘Travis Kelce’?”
However, he pronounced Kelce with a long E. Like Kel-see.
That’s when he corrected people and said: “It’s Travis Kelce.”
The surname instead rhymes with ‘else.’
Jones continued “Yeah, well…It’s f**king crazy, right?”
Well, as it turns out, the brothers actually tend to pronounce their name either way.
In an episode of their podcast that aired in January, the two spoke about Zac Brown Band.
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Travis went on to say, ‘who wants to hear these Kelce boys?’
But it rhymed with ‘else’.
Then, Jason reads out the label of a scented candle: “Smells Like Jason Kelce.”
But he pronounces it like Kel-see.
Then, when Travis hosted Saturday Night Live last year, they called him Kel-see.
There doesn’t seem to be a lot of consistency, here.
Last year, they even tried to get a definitive answer from their parents, Donna and Ed, who both had different opinions on how it’s pronounced.
Ed explained that traditionally, it’s Kelce (else), while Donna admitted to thinking that it was Kelce (Kel-see) for ages.
“Why in the world did you change your name out of nowhere and now we are Kel-see?” Jason asked.
“Why did we think that our name was Kel-see for the first 24 years… 27 years of my life, 25 of Trav’s.”
Ed said: “I never changed my name out of nowhere.
“I got tired of correcting people.
“That was the name that I went by at work (Kel-see). That was my work name. And everybody at work [said] that and so I just said, ‘Fine, screw this’.”
Travis, explained that he’d ‘go by both’ names, and Jason disagreed, telling people: “Don’t call me Kels.”
“So they just never corrected anyone or didn’t care?” one fan asked.
“It’s gonna be Travis Swift, lmao,” another fan joked.
Someone else said: “Okay but what is (Taylor’s Version) of preference? I’m going with that.”
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes also spoke about the shock, writing: “You learn something new everyday.”
Former NFL star, Tyreek Hill replied: “So I’ve been saying his name wrong this entire time.”
Travis then responded to Hill and said he goes by both names.
He wrote: “You’ve been sayin it right man, I go by both…. One’s my real name and one’s a nickname.”
