It was good to be Travis Kelce this summer. London ..
. Cannes ..
. Italy, a series of summer sojourns that found Kelce in Europe to be with megastar girlfriend Taylor Swift or hang out with brother Jason on a . Now? Quite the opposite accommodations.
Kelce lodges in a cinder block dormitory at Missouri Western State University, joining his Chiefs teammates while sweating out training camp. The star tight end wouldn’t have it any other way. “This is my sanctuary, baby,” Kelce said Saturday as the Chiefs wrapped up the first week of full squad workouts.
“St. Joe. Year 12.
That means I’ve spent about an entire year of my life up here in the dorms.” The math adds up. Training camp lasts about a month.
Kelce joined the Chiefs as a rookie in 2013, the same year Andy Reid became the head coach. Yep, that’s enough calendar days for a year — among Kelce’s 34 — that he has sweated out in a St. Joseph summer.
“Everybody may see that as pretty grueling,” Kelce said. “I enjoy it, man. There’s something about this place that gets you ready to play every single year.
And I’m not going to lie — I got pretty excited as the time started counting down to come here and get this thing rolling.” It been a wild few weeks for Kelce before training camp. He surprised Swift by showing up to her Eras Tour .
A week earlier, Travis, his brother Jason and his wife Kylie attended the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in France. In May, after Kelce attended S.