Even before his relationship with Taylor Swift became public, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce was among the most marketable NFL players heading into the season. An ad feature Kelce was seemingly unavoidable in every commercial break, and that included a partnership with Pfizer to promote the flu and COVID-19 vaccines.
When those commercials began to air, injured Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers tried to mock Kelce by calling him “Mr. Pfizer,” to which Kelce pointed out Rodgers played for the heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune.
It turned out that Kelce found another way to playfully respond to Rodgers. It came in the wide-ranging interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Eanes and his brother, Andre, handle much of Kelce’s business life, from investments to marketing, and it was they who widened his investment portfolio, putting him into a tequila company, an energy drink and a chain of car washes. They also steered him into lucrative endorsements, like Bud Light and the Covid vaccine, for which he caught much grief from Aaron Rodgers. The Jets quarterback, out since game one of the season with a torn Achilles, belittled Kelce as a Pfizer shill during one of his Tuesday appearances on The Pat McAfee Show.
Kelce took the high road then. He’s staying on it now. “Aaron’s always been cool to me,” he says. “I knew he was trying to have some fun. He’s in a situation where Tuesdays are his game days…. So I get it, man, I’ve been injured too…. Who knows what the guy is going through?”
Tuesdays are his game days. Just wow, Travis. Didn’t need to do Rodgers like that. The Chiefs tight end was referring to Rodgers’ regular Tuesday calls with the Pat McAfee Show. With Rodgers almost certainly done for the year with an Achilles injury, those Tuesday calls are basically all Rodgers has to look forward to this season.
Safe to say that Kelce won that battle.
Kelce also had plenty to say about his relationship with Swift.