Travis Kelce has spent the entirety of his NFL career with the Kansas City Chiefs but it's always been clear that his heart will always belong to the city of Cleveland where he was born and raised. He further demonstrated that by buying a minority stake in the Cleveland Guardians, his hometown MLB team.
Kelce is not the first professional athlete to buy a minority stake in another pro team, as the Chiefs' own Patrick Mahomes has also dipped his feet into the pro sports pool. Unlike Kelce though, Mahomes has chosen to do so in the city where he plays professionally, investing in minority stakes in the Kansas City Royals, Kansas City Current, and Sporting Kansas City.
Travis Kelce is newest minority owner of Cleveland Guardians
Back to Kelce though, hopefully Chiefs fans won't be offended that Kelce opted to do this with the Guardians and not the Royals. He's a Cleveland Heights native and has always been proud of that fact. If he's not repping Kansas City swag, then it's Cleveland swag and he was recently court side at Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals to support his Cavaliers as they took on (and lost to) the Knicks.
It might make things a little awkward whenever Kelce attends Royals games or if he participates in the Big Slick softball event and is donning a Royals jersey. The team that he's now a minority owner of might not be too fond of that.
All jokes aside, it's cool to see athletes continuing to invest in other sports teams. And while Chiefs fans would probably prefer Kelce stuck to the local pro teams in Kansas City, it's hard to blame him for wanting to invest in a team that he grew up rooting for. Isn't that all of our dreams after all?
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