Although they are considered one of the NFL’s power couples, Jason Kelce admitted things originally didn’t go as planned when he met his wife Kylie.
During the latest episode of his New Heights podcast, Kelce spoke to her former Philadelphia Eagles teammate, Beau Allen, about the night he drunkenly met Kylie. “What’s your side of the story?” Kelce asked Allen.
Jason Kelce pointed out that Kylie met him as Allen was carrying him out of a bar. “That was physically one of the hardest things I’ve ever done,” Allen declared. Kelce then said, “I was fighting you. I was fighting everyone.”
Allen also recalled Jason and Kylie meeting on Tinder. Jason had told some of their teammates about the situation at the time. “Then the night just went a little bit sideways and Kelc fell asleep on the bar, like snoozing,” Allen said.
“This is the thing about Kelc. It’s not uncommon… I have a disturbing amount of photos of you sleeping just asleep in various places. It’s cobblestone streets and you’re fighting me Kelce. At one point, I dropped you.”
Jason Kelce went on to ask Allen if he was “shocked” that Kylie agreed to go on a second date with him. “I was slightly surprised,” Allen admitted while laughing. “But you’re a great guy. You’re charming, look at that laugh. How can you not want to go on a second date with you?”
The second and other dates were obviously more successful, as Jason and Kylie Kelce eventually got married in April 2018. The couple still jokes about how they met, with Jason wearing a Tinder shirt on Valentine’s Day last week.
Kylie and Jason Kelce Previously Spoke About Their Disastrous First Date
In September 2023, Kylie and Jason Kelce recalled how they first met and how the relationship didn’t have a good first start. “Jason won’t let me lie about this,” Kyle explained in the documentary, Kelce. “We met on Tinder.”
Although Jason had been playing for the Philadelphia Eagles for a while at the time, Kylie admitted she didn’t even know the person she was matched with at the time. “None of his pictures showed Eagles football,” she explained. But her friends noticed he looked “kind of familiar” based on his profile pictures.
After checking Google, she assumed that it couldn’t actually be Jason Kelce. “It’s a catfish,” she noted. However, she decided to take the chance and meet him at a local bar. “Right away when she walks in the door, the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen,” Jason said. he also stated it was “very much like love at first sight.”
Things quickly took a turn. “Forty-five minutes later, he fell asleep at the bar, like just, out, like asleep, asleep, Kylie said. To which Jason replied, “Not the best first impression for me.”
Despite the first impression, Kylie said, “The next day, he called and was like, can we try that again?” She noted that he did much better at impressing her during the second date.