The Biggest Controversies To Come From Travis Kelce

Taylor Swift’s love life has long played an important role in her career. After all, so many of her biggest hits were written about the highs and lows of dating the men she’s been involved with over the years. Fans were pretty devastated when they learned in April 2023 that the singer had ended things with Joe Alwyn despite being together for six years. However, in typical Taylor fashion, it seems there’s already a new man in the picture.

That man is Travis Kelce, who’s no stranger to being in love himself. He’s attracted a ton of tabloid attention recently, thanks to the budding relationship between him and Swift. Unfortunately, all that publicity has also brought some of his most controversial moments back to the forefront. There’s a lot in the past he’d probably like the world to forget about, but these incidents probably won’t be going away any time soon.

Travis’ football career nearly ended prematurely after failing a substance test

Travis Kelce has managed to make a name for himself in the NFL. However, his dream was nearly cut short after he was kicked out of college for partying a bit too hard. He ended up failing a substance test, leading him to be banned from playing in the 2010 Allstate Sugar Bowl with the University of Cincinnati Wildcats. This also resulted in him being suspended from the team, and it was only thanks to his brother’s interference that his football career didn’t end there. He managed to convince people to give Travis another chance, and he ended up being selected by the Kansas City Chiefs to play in the NFL.

Maya Benberry accused Travis of cheating on her

When Travis Kelce found himself in need of money in 2016, he turned to a reality show on the E! Network. This led to him finding a partner in Maya Benberry, a woman who’s evidently no longer in his life today. According to Benberry, that’s because the football star cheated on her with Kalya Nicole, the woman he was dating after they broke up. She wrote on social media that they’d split up five months earlier but that Kelce had apparently “been in another relationship for six.” Maya has since advised Taylor Swift to “be smart” with Travis, claiming that “once a cheater, always a cheater.”

He caused plenty of upset by referring to women as “breeders”

Speaking of Taylor, one of Kelce’s more recent controversies came just a few months before he crossed paths with the singer. The NFL star was doing an episode of his podcast ‘New Heights’ where he and his brother were talking about who their mom’s favorite son was. When his sibling made reference to the fact he had children, Travis remarked that he needed to “start breeding” and that he wanted a family within the next year. Naturally, plenty of people were outraged by his reference to women as “breeders,” with fans concerned that Kelce might push Swift to have children sooner rather than later. Supposedly, though, building a family together is something they’ve already discussed.

Kelce has been fined numerous times throughout his NFL career

It’s easy to get worked up in the middle of a game, which is why so many sports stars do things they probably wouldn’t if they were anywhere else. Travis Kelce knows this, given how many fines he’s racked up for bad behavior in the past. For instance, in 2016, he was fined $24,309 after he threw a towel at a referee. He was removed from the game and later confessed to feeling “like an idiot” after he got upset about the ref not calling a pass-interference penalty. The following year, he was fined another $12,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct with Kyle Van Noy. Then, in 2020, Kelce received a $12,500 penalty for dunking the football over the goal post.

A rude gesture and online post earned Travis some backlash in 2014

Another time when Kelce did something on the field that he wasn’t necessarily proud of was in 2014. During a game against the Denver Broncos, he made an obscene gesture that definitely didn’t pass people by. This was after Von Miller was penalized for a late hit, with Travis later writing online that the man “deserved a shot to the face.” Apparently, the Broncos player had made a cheap shot on Alex Smith of the Kansas City Chiefs, leading Kelce to lash out. When people criticized his actions, Travis made another online post, this one much more sarcastic. Kelce apologized to his fans and said he’d forgotten he “couldn’t express myself on here.”

Whether in his personal or professional life, controversy seems to follow Travis Kelce wherever he goes. Of course, no celebrity is perfect all the time, and most of these controversies weren’t too recent. So, we can hope that the NFL star has grown a lot since these unfortunate incidents and become a better version of himself. Otherwise, he may soon join Taylor Swift’s long list of ex-lovers.