Travis Kelce: Kansas City Chiefs star says Super B...

Travis Kelce has no plans to retire anytime quickly, even when the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs win a 3rd successive Tremendous Bowl on Sunday.

The 35-year-old Chiefs tight finish’s future plans have come below the microscope as his fame has risen off the sphere because of his relationship with pop star Taylor Swift.

Kelce, who knocked again a query a couple of potential proposal being on the playing cards any time quickly, was adimant that he is not planning on calling it quits from the NFL anytime quickly.

“I’ve thought of it, however I nonetheless love what I do.I like coming into work day by day,” Kelce stated on the Tremendous Bowl’s opening night time occasion in New Orleans, staged for the gathered worldwide media retailers.

“It is moments like these, weeks like these, the month that we simply had within the playoffs that make me really feel like I might play this sport perpetually.

“I really feel like I nonetheless have loads of good soccer left in me. We’ll see what occurs. I do know I have been setting myself up for different alternatives in my life.

“That is all the time been the purpose figuring out soccer solely lasts for therefore lengthy.”

However requested the place he sees himself in three years time, Kelce added: “Hopefully nonetheless enjoying soccer. I plan on being a Kansas Metropolis Chief and enjoying soccer.”

Kelce remains to be enjoying at a excessive stage even when he has fallen off a bit from his peak. He had 97 catches this season however solely gained 823 yards and scored three TDs.

Within the playoffs although he has come alive, having fun with a throwback efficiency within the Chiefs’ divisional spherical win over Houston, with seven catches for 117 yards and one landing – and he enters the Tremendous Bowl with essentially the most catches ever within the playoffs (174) and is second to Corridor of Famer Jerry Rice in receiving yards (2,039) and TD catches (20).

Kelce reserved reward for Swift, saying their relationship helps encourage him to maintain acting on the soccer subject.

“I higher maintain up my finish of the discount,” he stated. “If she’s out right here being the famous person she is, by no means taking no for a solution, and all the time working her tail off, I higher match that vitality for positive.

“I feel we each like to manifest issues. You possibly can’t say it is not actual as a result of we’re right here, proper?”

However requested whether or not he plans to provide Swift an engagement ring after Tremendous Bowl Sunday, ought to the Chiefs win a 3 in a row, Kelce rapidly shut issues down by responding: “A Tremendous Bowl ring? Subsequent query.”

One other reporter who tried with a follow-up was met with equal resistance. “Man, back-to-back? You guys are loopy,” Kelce replied.

Intrigue has additionally centred across the Pennsylvania-born Swift’s workforce loyalty within the Tremendous Bowl after Philadelphia reached Tremendous Bowl LIX, the place they are going to face Kansas Metropolis, however Kelce has no doubts as to the place her allegiances lie.

“I do know her father is an Eagles fan,” he stated. “However she’ll be all for the Chiefs this time round for positive.”

The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs face the Philadelphia Eagles in Tremendous Bowl 59 on the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday February 9, dwell on Sky Sports activities NFL and Major Occasion from 10pm forward of kickoff at 11.30pm; Tom Brady options on commentary whereas Kendrick Lamar headlines the half-time present