CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — The Cleveland Heights residence of Alex Quintana appears like a home divided with each Eagles and Chiefs flags flying off the entrance porch. The fact although is it’s a home united behind Jason and Travis Kelce.
“Oh my gosh, it is a dream come true,” Quintana mentioned. “It is one thing you by no means would count on I imply these younger males have been document breakers ever since they had been kids.”
That is when Quintana first met them when he opened his Cleveland Peak’s Barber Store and commenced slicing their hair. The flags he flies are in celebration of them and he mentioned a celebration of Cleveland Heights.
“I believe that the one place in Ohio that the solar was shining was in Cleveland Heights,” he mentioned.
The boys father, Ed Kelce, will let you know it is shining in Philadelphia as effectively.
“Holy cow, I can not consider that is really taking place,” that is what Kelce informed Information 5 was going by way of his head after watching Jason’s Eagles defeat the San Francisco 49ers for the NFC Championship then his son Travis and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs finest the Cincinnati Bengals for the AFC Championship.
“I really left with, like, seven minutes left within the 4th quarter,” Kelce mentioned of the Eagles recreation so he might stroll over to a South Philadelphia bar the place he might watch the Chiefs recreation along with his son Jason doing the identical after the Eagles celebrations had been wrapped. “So Jason, as quickly as he bought cleaned up, I do know they’d lots stuff on the sector proper afterwards. He most likely bought over for center of the second quarter.”
He hadn’t but talked to Travis after the win, however he spent a part of his Monday morning over at Jason’s home. Did they discuss in regards to the win or the primary of its form Tremendous Bowl showdown between two brothers? No, he mentioned, his granddaughters had been up.
“We did not discuss soccer as a result of the ladies, the infants had been up, so it was all about what the ladies are doing and what we’ll do with the backyard and this or that.”
As a soccer household, the Kelce household handled the highs that got here together with the wins and the lows with the losses, each of which their boys will take care of within the Tremendous Bowl.
“Certainly one of my youngsters goes to get one other ring and one’s going to go residence damaged hearted that he did not beat his brother,” he joked.
Since each play offense, the plan will probably be to root for no matter offense is on the sector on the time and do not search for him to be carrying both boy’s jersey, no less than from the professionals.
“I’ve two jerseys that I am going to take with me to put on at totally different instances relying on what the occasion is one is from the College of Cincinnati,” the place the Kelces performed their school ball. “It has Travis’ quantity on the entrance and Jason’s on the again. I even have final yr, when the Chiefs got here to Philadelphia I had some jersey’s made up they usually had been replicas of Heights Excessive jerseys from the time each time the type when the boys had been there. And so I had these duplicated with one quantity on the again and a unique quantity on the entrance.”
Kelce shared on social media just a few years again a photograph of his boys enjoying on their entrance garden of their reproduction Bernie Kosar uniforms. We requested him might he have ever imagined the careers they might have and the historical past they might make?
“No, you’ll be able to’t actually assume that one thing like that would occur— I imply what are the chances— I imply realistically,” he mentioned. “However yeah, all the time behind your thoughts you are considering ‘that is going to be nice in the event that they ever do that.’”
