Travis Kelce left NFL coaches thinking he was 'insane' after crying during meeting
The NFL star recently sat down for an interview with GQ where he discussed everything from his on-field career to his off-field antics with girlfriend Taylor Swift.
Among that conversation, the Chiefs tight end opened up on the emotional moment he broke down in tears when trying to convince one team to take a chance on him.
Kelce revealed that, at 23-years-old, he met with Rob Chudzinski, then head coach of the Cleveland Browns, who Kelce and his brother were major fans of.
'I cried in Chud's office and said, 'I will f***ing die for this city!'. I literally was in tears,' Kelce revealed in the interview.
'I said, 'I'm sorry I'm getting emotional. I grew up down the street. I would f***ing do anything to play for the Cleveland Browns.'
'He looked at me like I was insane. I don't think he'd ever had somebody just pour out their emotions.'
In the end, the Browns - along with every team in the league until the third round of the 2013 draft - opted to pass on Kelce before he wound up at the Chiefs.
It proved to be the right decision from Kansas City, with Kelce going on to form a formidable part of their Super Bowl-winning teams in recent years.
Kelce has made five Super Bowl appearance with the Chiefs and picked up three rings during that time.
Elsewhere in the interview, Kelce opened up for the first time on the impact of the split between his parents, Donna and Ed, and revealed how it shapes his hopes for the future with Taylor Swift.
He recalled sensing his parents had drifted before what he thinks was their 20th wedding anniversary.
And in moving comments, he also underlined how much he wants to avoid that ever happening with Swift.
Kelce's latest interview comes amid a hugely exciting time for both him and his girlfriend
'I don't want to get this wrong, it had to be around 20 (20th wedding anniversary),' Kelce said, explaining that his parents' anniversary date had been marked down on a calendar in the Kelce family kitchen.
'I remember seeing it and I was like, 'Oh, it's their anniversary. I wonder what they're going to do.' And it was kind of just another day almost. Another day of knocking out things for the kids.
'I'm sure my father probably did something, he's always been very good at making sure we celebrate our mother when it's Mother's Day and all that.
'He still to this day will text, like, 'Hey, it's your mom's birthday coming up. Don't forget about it'. But I never saw the romance of it all.'
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