Travis Kelce continues to make information virtually every day each on and off the soccer area, as his Kansas Metropolis Chiefs are one win away from their third consecutive Tremendous Bowl and with Swifties in every single place on engagement watch a 12 months and a half into his relationship with Taylor Swift. In the meantime, Jason Kelce has turned to broadcasting post-retirement, and he shared a hilarious story about his brother telling folks his title his title was “Charles,” after Charles Barkley, when he was a child. Nicely, in an odd twist, it seems that the NBA nice had needed to be referred to as “Travis.” Let’s break down this wild coincidence.
As A Little one, Travis Kelce Instructed Folks His Title Was ‘Charles’
Travis Kelce is simply the present that retains on giving, and followers positive are fortunate he has a brother who retains popping up on the 2025 TV schedule with enjoyable tales from their childhood. The New Heights’ Twitter account posted a clip of Jason speaking about his brother on ESPN’s Postseason NFL Countdown forward of the Chiefs’ January 18 playoff sport towards the Texans (which Kansas Metropolis received), the place he mentioned of Travis:
He was the loopy man… He additionally advised all the block his title was Charles as a result of his favourite basketball participant was Charles Barkley. We discovered at a block get together as a result of all the opposite mother and father had been like, ‘There goes Charles.’ That’s the type of child Travis was. He was at all times residing as much as all of his sports activities idols, for positive.
I can solely think about their mother Donna Kelce’s response to listening to the opposite neighborhood mother and father make feedback about “Charles,” and it’s truly so cute that Travis needed to honor his basketball idol in that means. Additionally, it’s not like he was asking folks to name him “The Spherical Mound of Rebound” and even “Sir Charles,” because the two-time Olympic gold medalist did.
That’s not the place the story ends, both, because it seems the Contained in the NBA anchor used to covet Travis Kelce’s title.
Charles Barkley Requested To Change His Title To ‘Travis’
They are saying don’t meet your heroes, however thank goodness Travis Kelce did finally get to hang around with Charles Barkley, as a result of in any other case we’d by no means find out about this enjoyable title sport they’ve acquired occurring. On a June 2023 episode of New Heights, the Kelce brothers relayed the story of Travis’ childhood nickname of types, and the NBA participant added a twist together with his personal reminiscence, saying:
What was actually humorous, the most effective participant at my highschool was a man named Travis Abernathy, and he was nice from, like, junior excessive. So everyone beloved Travis. However I used to be named after my grandfather. Once I began getting higher at basketball, I mentioned, ‘Mother, what will we take into consideration me altering my title to Travis?’ She says, ‘What the hell are you speaking about?’ ‘Charles ain’t gonna get it finished.’ She says, ‘That’s your grandfather’s title.’ And I mentioned, ‘Yeah, and he’s a no person! That’s an ideal instance.’
Oh my Lord, poor grandpa catching strays! That’s completely an excessive amount of, with Charles Barkley telling his mother that his grandfather was the proper instance of why “Charles ain’t gonna get it finished.” To at the present time Barkley has a keenness for the moniker, as he continued:
I really like the title Travis. It is similar to, you bought to have the ability to play some, in case your title Travis.
That’s acquired to be a fairly wonderful factor for Travis Kelce to listen to, and he’s little question hoping to show Charles Barkley’s phrases true, as he prepares to take the sphere towards the Buffalo Payments within the AFC Championship Sport at 6:30 p.m. ET Sunday, January 26, on CBS and streaming with a Paramount+ subscription.