Travis Kelce’s wedding to Taylor Swift may have been packed with more than 1,000 guests, but not everyone around the Chiefs felt the love.
According to a Chiefs player who spoke to the Daily Mail, the invite list has already stirred up plenty of chatter inside team group chats and private DMs, with some teammates feeling snubbed and others treating the whole thing like a running joke. The biggest flashpoint, the player said, was Harrison Butker not being invited.
“It’s really their wedding, and I understand why they wouldn’t have invited [Butker]. But there’s some difference of opinion [between players]. Lots of texts are going around the team, and some people who are close to Harrison feel like he was snubbed.”
The same player said the reaction has gone beyond mild disappointment and into full-on team gossip. “There’s now a lot of gossip going on.
Training camp [for the new NFL season] starts in three weeks, and it’s going to be a whole thing. A lot of guys want it to be drama [between Butker and Kelce].
They just like that s**t… a couple of the guys are being messy and texting Harrison to see what he thinks. We’re like a high school team sometimes.”
A second Chiefs player described how the team’s messaging world is split up into different pockets, with some chats including Kelce and others keeping the wedding talk away from him.
“It’s not like all of us are in the same [group chat]. The team is too big.
So there are groups that might just be like defense [players], or a certain group of guys. There are some with me in, some without me.
I am in about seven chains of players, some are professional… some are just used for talking s**t.
‘I have chains that have Travis on them, and chains that don’t. You always have to check to make sure you’re sending to the right chain. There have been times where you’ll talk s**t about someone and then realize they are in the group, and have to laugh it off.
‘I think most of the texts about the wedding are probably being sent in the groups without Travis. I have one that has about eight of us, and, before the wedding, it was like “Who’s going?” And everyone was saying where they were staying, or why they weren’t going.
‘I think maybe half the team went, probably less. A lot of people RSVP’d no, not because of anything bad, but because of a conflict. I didn’t go because I didn’t want to spend the 4th in New York and couldn’t bring my kids.
‘Some people asked, “Do we have to send them a gift?’, because they have more money than us, which was funny. People were coming up with funny things to send.
I thought it would be funny to send him something that was monogrammed “Mr and Mrs Swift”. That type of thing.
We sent each other memes and pictures.’”
The first Chiefs player said the team’s reaction hasn’t turned hostile, even if the jokes and side conversations have been flying.
“Can’t say too much because Travis is my friend… Yeah, there are a few group texts. I’m on one with Harrison [Butker].
Someone sent a news story about him not being invited, and the group was like “WTF?” But he didn’t reply.
‘I don’t think anyone on the team wishes [Kelce] anything but good things. Everyone likes him.
He’s a good teammate and a good friend. There’s locker room s**t, but it’s nothing disrespectful.
‘Most of [our group] texts were just logistics about how people were getting from their hotels to the wedding, or what everyone was going to wear. The women [players’ wives and girlfriends] have other text groups.
Taylor is officially a football wife now, and she’ll be invited to their wine nights and stuff, but she won’t go. I’m sure of that.
But if you want trash talk, you have to see their group texts. My girlfriend won’t even let me look at her phone to see it.’”
The source also notes that retired NFL linebacker Will Compton publicly said he was stunned not to get an invite, and that the wedding included Jason Kelce, Austin Swift, Ed and Donna Kelce, Scott and Andrea Swift, Andy Reid, Patrick and Brittany Mahomes, Chris Jones, and Isiah Pacheco among the attendees.
Kelce and Swift’s wedding at Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden has now become a talking point inside the Chiefs’ locker room, with training camp still three weeks away and plenty of time for the chatter to keep rolling.
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