Travis Kelce (literally) gave the $12,000 shirt off his back to one of his NFL buddies
Travis Kelce invited his buddy, former NFL nose tackle Beau Allen, to be his guest at the Chiefs-Texans game in Kansas City over the weekend, and Allen managed to leave town with a “sick piece of swag.”
In fact, watching the game in a suite at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium with Kelce’s girlfriend, superstar singer Taylor Swift, and WNBA star Caitlin Clark, Allen said, was “the most unique viewing experience of a football game of my life.”
Unique is one word for it. After the game, Kelce literally gave Allen the shirt off his back — an $11,900 pink suede shirt by Italian luxury fashion house Bottega Veneta.
“I complimented Travis on his jacket and he just (bleeping) gave it to me. It’s pretty sick,” Allen said Monday on the “Green Light with Chris Long” podcast.
“Honestly, I was like, ‘I don’t think it will fit me.’ And Taylor was like, ‘Yeah, it will definitely fit. Put it on.’ He said, ‘If it fits, you can have it. I’m never going to wear it again.’”
Spoken like a true celebrity who knows the golden rule: Never wear the same outfit twice on the runway. Even though Kelce’s runway is his pregame walk into the stadium.
Allen, who played for the Eagles, Patriots and Buccaneers before retiring in 2022, appears on the “New Heights” podcast Kelce hosts with his brother, former Eagles star Jason Kelce.
The designer hand-me-down he was gifted is, according to the Style by Kelce Instagram, Bottega Veneta’s Intrecciato Suede Shirt featuring the brand’s trademark weaving technique.
For his game-day fit on Saturday, Kelce paired the loose-fitting overshirt with baggy, pajama-like jeans by Diesel, pink Timberland boots and a hand-tied beanie, a playoff look that screamed granny chic.
Long revealed that Jason Kelce warned Allen not to misbehave and not to “bother Taylor” in the suite during the game.
“Kelce called me up and the tone was, it’s like when your dad calls you when you get in trouble for something and he doesn’t know how to get into it,” Allen said. “He’s like, ‘You’re coming to this game, don’t make me regret this.’ Yes, yes sir.”
Allen said Swift “led with a compliment” when he met her.
“She said I was funny and that she respected my commitment to like making a joke or getting a laugh or something like that,” he said. “I was like, ‘Oh, wow. I really wasn’t expecting a compliment out of you.’”
Swift will have her last chance to attend a Chiefs home game on Sunday when Kelce and company face the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship Game.
This story was originally published January 23, 2025 at 4:45 AM.
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