On a rainy Monday, Travis Kelce arrives for Chiefs-Eagle game in throwback Texans jacket
A rainy “Monday Night Football” inspired Kansas Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and his teammates to bust out their jacket game, and Kelce’s red wool wonder paid homage to the team’s Texas roots.
“Jacket game crazy,” the Chiefs declared on X, formerly Twitter, as the players arrived at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.
Kelce’s brother, Jason Kelce, center for the Philadelphia Eagles, repped the brothers’ Ohio high school in a varsity jacket from Cleveland Heights that he wore with flip-flops in the rain.
For all you new Chiefs fans out there — we’re looking at you Swifties — here’s why Travis wore a jacket that seemed to belong to another football team.
The Kansas City Chiefs were the Dallas Texans from 1960 to 1962 in the American Football League. Then in 1963, team owner Lamar Hunt, a Texan, moved the team to Kansas City and it was renamed the Chiefs.
The snap-front jacket Kelce wore was an exact reproduction of the team jacket worn by the Texans in 1960.
A white embroidered wool felt patch shaped like the state of Texas adorned the left breast.
The back read “Dallas Texans,” embroidered in gold wool felt letters.
The jacket sells for $595 on ebbets.com.
A portion of the proceeds goes to the Greater Good Fund that supports the health and wellness of retired NFL players, the website says.
On Monday night, the website said only a few of the Texans jackets were left.
This story was originally published November 20, 2023 at 6:46 PM.
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