Travis and Jason Kelce may be close nowadays, but growing up, their relationship was far from perfect. In a February 2023 interview for the Los Angeles Times, their father Ed recalled breaking up several fights between the brothers during their childhood, at times, even putting himself in the middle of the two. He told the outlet that in addition to football, the pair grew up loving several sports, including hockey, basketball, and baseball, which gave way to them developing a competitive nature. But sometimes their court disputes carried over into the household.
Ed remembered one particular fight in which Travis stood up to Jason over a basketball dispute, which ended in the Chiefs player punching his older brother. “We’re in the kitchen and I’m looking around and all I see are 90-degree corners to crack your head on, the countertops and everything,” Ed recalled. “I’m yelling at them to stop. They get tangled up and this is all going to go down. There’s potential here for ER visits, which I didn’t want.” The Kelce patriarch admitted the only way to get them to stop fighting was to grab them both and drag them to the floor, which resulted in a toppled dinner casserole and a broken oven door.
“We hit the floor and I screamed out, ‘Oh, my back!'” Ed recalled. “Changed the whole dynamic. All of a sudden they weren’t mad at each other; they were worried about dad. There wasn’t a damn thing wrong with me, but it ended the fight.”
