February 12th, 2024
Am I going to comment on Travis Kelce today?
You bet I am. Because if there’s one thing I love to do, it’s challenge the rotting hive mind of the rabid mob we know as the internet.
I saw the moment last night. Travis comes in hot, taking his coach, 65-year-old Andy Reid, completely off guard while yelling… something about wanting to play football.
I’ve seen the reactions today. Oddly, the word I’ve seen used most is “disgusting,” and I guess I just have a different definition of the word, of what I find to be disgusting.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve yelled at someone, and how many times someone has yelled at me. I really can’t. Human behavior is funny like that; one moment, we’re in control, calm and collected, and the next, we have these things called emotions and we’re reminded that we’re never in control, not really, and our guts are spilled all over the floor.
I didn’t care about the moment. I wanted to know what happened AFTER.
So I started looking for interviews with Coach Reid from after the game. And here’s what Andy himself said:
He said that Travis did catch him off guard. We saw that. Andy also said he understands Travis, his passion and his intensity. And he said after that moment, the moment when the internet decided that Travis was disgusting, an unrecognizable animal, unlike any other human who has ever lived, Travis walked over, gave him a big hug, and apologized to him.
Which, and I don’t know if you know this, is the right thing to do.
I have no stake in these football people or their lives, though we are a Taylor household. But I have made terrible mistakes and my emotions get the best of me, daily, without fail, and I try really, really hard to not let them.
But they do. And all I can do, all anyone can do, on their best day, is come back in the moment, give the person they wronged a hug, and say they’re sorry.
And there’s a certain level of grace that today’s internet mob was either born without, or has completely forgotten.
I hope, if possible, you have a perfect day in which you act perfectly in the perfect world you inhabit. Please remember that the rest of us are deeply flawed but, honestly, we’re trying. Some of us are trying to win the Super Bowl, and some of us are just trying to not give everybody else the middle finger.
The Den 