{"id":39216,"date":"2025-04-07T08:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T08:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=39216"},"modified":"2025-04-07T08:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T08:08:05","slug":"kennedy-pudge-bucket-travis-kelce-just-betrayed-taylor-swift-this-is-what-he-must-do-now-or-be-dumped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=39216","title":{"rendered":"KENNEDY: Pudge-bucket Travis Kelce just betrayed Taylor Swift! This is what he must do now… or be dumped.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Kansas\u00a0City Chief loose end\u00a0Travis Kelce\u00a0wrapped up his 2024 NFL season fat and more famous than nearly every other player in the league.\u00a0But if this hairy hulk isn’t careful, he’ll close out his professional career washed-up and little more than his lady love’s lyrical roadkill.<\/p>\n

Sure, last year, the world couldn’t get enough of the telegenic Traylors. We were captivated by Instagram-era optics of Taylor Swift and Travis’s private jet setting, smooch stealing and made-for-streaming, all-American romance.<\/p>\n

Who can forget that\u00a0Super Bowl\u00a058 on-field kiss? The sweaty sports hero and the\u00a0beaming pop princess. Dreams do come true!<\/p>\n

But like the typical\u00a0Netflix\u00a0flop, they couldn’t sustain the steamy plot past season one. For while the NFL put a ring on Kelce, Ms\u00a0Swift\u00a0left the stadium bling-less.<\/p>\n

Then the duo skidded to a\u00a0truly embarrassing halt\u00a0after Super Bowl 59, when the Philadelphia Eagles blew out the Chiefs like an extra serving of game day nachos.<\/p>\n

Travis had four catches for 40 yards and zero touchdowns. There was no surprise engagement under a shower of red and yellow confetti. And, after knocking down talk of an imminent NFL retirement, Swelce just vanished.<\/p>\n

They haven’t been seen in public together since February and now back-stabbing ‘insiders’ are telling us why.<\/p>\n

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Travis had four catches for 40 yards and zero touchdowns. There was no surprise engagement on the 50-yard line under a shower of red and yellow confetti. And, after knocking down talk of an imminent NFL retirement, Swelce just vanished.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Travis ‘wants to have a good [2026] season and not have the focus be on his relationship with Taylor,’ a source told\u00a0Us Weekly\u00a0last week.<\/p>\n

‘Travis wants to take [a breather] from the public eye,’ they added. ‘He was working too much last year, and he didn’t play as well as he wanted.’<\/p>\n

Well, in the words of one raging online Swiftie: No s*** Sherlock!<\/p>\n

Over the last year and a half, Travis has played nearly everything but football, from starring in Pfizer ads to\u00a0some FX show called ‘Grotesquerie’\u00a0to cameos at his sugar momma’s overseas concerts.<\/p>\n

And Number 87 is not the first jock to gag on the sweet nectar of the celebrity siren. He’s just not bright enough to know it.<\/p>\n

Remember when Jessica Simpson whisked Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo off to Cabo right before his humiliating playoff loss to the Giants in 2018? Fans quickly turned on the sultry seductress and Romo punted on the romance.<\/p>\n

NBA star James Harden had to similarly shiv a clingy Kardashian when his high-profile humpery with Khloe started to deflate the baller.<\/p>\n

Harden said at the time of their doomed 2015 tryst, ‘I didn’t like all the attention\u2026 It was unnecessary stuff that I think trickled down to my teammates. I had to eliminate that.’<\/p>\n

But it’s way too easy for Travis to blame his clumsy temptress for\u00a0his\u00a0<\/span>yips. He threw\u00a0himself\u00a0<\/span>into her fame machine and got caught up in her gears, so please spare me the injury report.<\/p>\n

No one made him wear that goofy Gucci bucket hat or chug beers in public like a frat boy struggling through his sixth year at state college.<\/p>\n

Travis publicly pursued Taylor (allegedly with help from his friend Jason Sudeikis) and\u00a0bragged about it for attention on the podcast\u00a0he hosts his slovenly sasquatch of a brother Jason (who has also slingshotted to celebrity off Swift’s star).<\/p>\n

These clout-cashing, pudge-buckets are truly the dogs that caught the tour bus.<\/p>\n