Family ties run deep, but so does hometown loyalty. Travis Kelce’s brother, Jason Kelce, along with Jason’s wife Kylie Kelce and their three daughters, face a dilemma with Sunday’s Super Bowl 2025: Travis, of course, plays for the Kansas City Chiefs, but Jason played for the Philadelphia Eagles, the Chiefs’ opponent, until last year, and is fiercely loyal to the team and the city that he still calls home. Kylie, too, is a lifelong Philadelphian. While we know Taylor Swift, who has been dating Travis since summer 2023, will be repping the Chiefs at the game in New Orleans, the question of the extended Kelce family’s game-day strategy remains.
In an interview Thursday with Today, Kylie revealed that she and Jason will head to the Superdome for the game, their three daughters—6-year-old Wyatt, 3-year-old Elliotte, and Bennett, 23 months—will stay home. Kylie is also pregnant with the couple’s fourth daughter.
“The logistics of travel, school and childcare were just too overwhelming,” she said of the decision to go without their kids. “They don’t also really watch football in a way that they would enjoy being in the stadium for the duration of the Super Bowl. So in an effort to sort of just give everyone their best shot at enjoying the day, they will be watching the Super Bowl from home.”
Though Kylie has said that she’ll never wear another team’s gear (at last year’s Super Bowl, she wore New Heights merchandise and a red University of Cincinnati jacket), and Jason joked on the brothers’ podcast, New Heights, that he felt conflicted between his biological family and his football brothers on the Eagles, the littlest Kelces will be sporting custom gear to watch the game.
“I will say we have made moves to get the girls ‘Go Uncle Trav’ shirts because they love their uncle, and of course they love cheering him on,” Kylie revealed on her podcast, Not Gonna Lie, in an episode published January 30. “And to be fair, they love cheering on the Birds too, but he is our family and I wanna make sure that the girls feel included.”
“They know exactly who they’re rooting for,” Travis said, laughing, during a press conference this week when a reporter said that his brother and sister-in-law had been playing coy about who they’ll be supporting on Sunday. “Jason and Kylie, I love them to death. This game isn’t going to get between how much I love them, and the fact that the girls are going to be wearing a ‘Go Uncle Travvy’ shirt, it warms my heart and gives me something else to fight for, and hopefully I can make them proud and put a few smiles on their faces throughout the game.”
Kylie also said on her podcast that her daughters would probably have more fun watching the game at home than at the stadium.
“We think they’ll be much, much happier to see Uncle Trav on the TV because it’ll be easier to see him and they can cheer him on that way,” she said. “The goal of the day is to just cheer on the Chiefs and make sure that we cheer hard enough that Uncle Trav can feel the energy and he can put that right onto the field.”
Kylie divulged that she is “truly, as always, cheering Travis on.”
“I love him, he’s my family, so I will always cheer on Travis’s accomplishments and hopefully successes.”
“That being said, I was raised to bleed green,” she said of her Eagles fandom and the close relationships she still has in the organization. “Ultimately, the plan is to go to the game and to cheer.”
“This is hard. I don’t like it,” she said, laughing, of pulling for both sides simultaneously. “It’s very exciting, but I’m mad about it.”
Jason, too, said on New Heights that he has mixed emotions about Super Bowl LIX.
“I’m rooting for Philadelphia, and I’m rooting for Travis Kelce,” he said. “That’s the reality of it. No matter what, on game day, I’m going to be happy for one of those sides, and I’m gonna be sad for the other side.”