Why is Ed Kelce defending Travis on social media? Chiefs legend dad fires back at critics with season stats

Wondery x The New Heights House Party Hosted by Jason & Travis Kelce - Source: Getty
Ed Kelce at the New Heights House Party hosted by Jason and Travis Kelce. (Image via Getty/Daniel Boczarski)

Travis Kelce's dad Ed Kelce took shots at all the trolls who criticised the Kansas City Chiefs tight end's performance this season.

The senior Kelce took to social media to pen a stern message highlighting his son's achievements on the field:

“If anyone questions how good Travis is playing,” he wrote on November 23, “through week 10 he leads all tight ends in total yardage.”

Travis' dad Ed Kelce opens up about his proposal to Taylor Swift: Read more

Just earlier this month, Travis Kelce broke a Chiefs franchise record when he secured his 84th touchdown in a match against the Denver Broncos, Entertainment Online has reported. In October, he secured another professional milestone when he landed his 100th career touchdown, including playoff games.

At the time, Travis Kelce took to his social media to celebrate his and his teams' achievements:

“We’re really groovin’ now!!” he wrote, alongside a collage of photos.

As for Ed, he made headlines back in August, just days after Taylor Swift announced her engagement to Travis Kelce. At the time, he sat down for an interview with News 5's John Kosich, where he revealed that the announcement came two weeks after the grand proposal.

"Travis actually did the proposal, oh, maybe two weeks, not quite two weeks ago," Ed Kelce said. "He was going to put it off till this week. I think she was getting maybe a little antsy, but he was going to put her off till this week, to, you know, make some grand thing, to make it a big special event. And I told him repeatedly, you know, you could do it on the side of the road, do it any place that makes it a special event ... when you get down on one knee and ask her to marry you."

Travis Kelce asked his beau of 2 years to marry him at his home in Lee's Summit, Missouri.

"He got her out there, they were about to go out to dinner, and he said, 'let's go out and have a glass of wine,' ... they got out there, and that's when he asked her, and it was beautiful," Ed Kelce said. "They started FaceTiming me and their mother and her folks to make sure everybody knew. So, to see them together is great."

He also said that he was at a Philadelphia Eagles practice when he got the news that his younger son was engaged.

"I was at ... an Eagles practice, a public practice that they had a lot of people that, well, the Eagles had 60,000 people at a public practice two weeks ago on a Sunday night," Ed Kelce said. "So at that practice ... I got a FaceTime call from them, and as soon as I saw the FaceTime, I saw it was Travis, and then I saw Taylor there with him, I knew what they were going to say, and they, you know, let us know."

Ed Kelce said that he knew about his son's plans to propose months ago, though he expected him to ask the big question during last year's NFL season.

"We actually went to a thing in KC Sunday night, which was an ESPN airing of 'The Kingdom' and went to that, and his mother and I went with him back to his house for dinner, where Taylor made dinner, and we had a wonderful dinner with them outside on the patio and to just watch the two of them, just crazy about each other. It's truly kinda neat," Ed Kelce said.

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Edited by Jenel Treza Albuquerque