Travis Kelce Caught Smoking in His Car Before Practice, Does It Make Him a Bad Guy?

Daily Mail - Travis Kelce was caught smoking in his car on the way to Kansas City Chiefs practice last week, two days before lining up against the Minnesota Vikings.

While driving his vintage 1970 Chevelle convertible, Kelce could be seen smoking and checking his phone as he made his way into the Chiefs' practice facility on Friday.

The 34-year-old, who was spotted taking new love interest Taylor Swift for a spin in the very same car last month, then went on to enjoy a session with the Super Bowl champions in preparation for their game in Minneapolis on Sunday. It is unclear what substance he was smoking.

I didn't want to believe it. I saw the photos last week of Travis Kelce purchasing Dutch Masters at a gas station, then proceeding to hang out with multiple friends inside of a car for a full hour on his 34th birthday. But there's a million explanations for that. He could have been purchasing Dutch Masters for a homeless man, or possibly an underage friend. 

Is that the smile of a cheesing drug addict who's trying not to laugh at the kind of hilarious face of a gas station attendant taking his photograph, or a man who's proud to be running an errand for a friend? Hard to say.  

Spending an hour in a car with his pals doesn't mean anything either. Maybe he was considering purchasing his friend's SUV, and wanted to get real acclimated with the interior in order to make an informed decision. Or maybe it's just a really cool vibe in there.

I hung out in cars all the time when I was 16 years old. I wasn't necessarily smoking weed. Sometimes I was waiting on a guy to sell me weed. But a new photo just dropped. A photo that would be ever more difficult to explain to your mother.

First off, I'd be remiss not to thank the wonderful paparazzi of Kansas City, Missouri for stalking Travis Kelce's every move. This is your Super Bowl. One photo of Travis Kelce doing drugs could put your kids through college. Paparazzi have an important job. Someone has to photograph celebs. Without paparazzi, what would Barstool Sports have to write about? Original thoughts from our own head? Sports? Yeah right. We need heroes with $10k cameras tailing celebrities 24/7 so that we have plenty of candid photos to speculate wildly about. We need candid celebrity photos to distract us from focusing on real world issues, or god forbid worrying about our own problems. 

Anyways, the photos that have surfaced of Travis Kelce over the last week prove that he is some sort of smoker. Which begs the question, "Is Travis Kelce a bad guy?"

All we can do is take a look at the facts like we're playing a game of Clue. We have Travis Kelce, in his cool convertible, driving distracted, on his way to football practice, with smoke in mouth. 

Photos don't come with smells. That technology isn't there yet. If we could smell the photo, we would know for sure what Travis is smoking. But there are plenty of non-weed substances you can smoke as well. Tobacco, spice, PCP, methamphetamine, oregano, meats. Most of those aren't even illegal. Plus, some of the world's greatest people have been avid smokers. 

You can give him guff for smoking before practice all you want because "it's bad for your lungs", or whatever fake propaganda the mainstream media is pushing nowadays. But Kelce's stats on the field speak for themself. Whatever he's been doing before practice his whole career is obviously working. What would you rather Kelce be doing anyways? Carbo-loading? Eating a sandwich? Speaking of which, do you know who never smoked a cigarette in his life? 

Ben Gabbe. Getty Images.

Subway Jared. If Subway Jared would have lost 245 pounds by becoming a heavy smoker instead of eating healthy, maybe he wouldn't have transformed into the monster he is today.

I did even more research. Do you know who else was a heavy smoker? Adolf Hitler.

According to a Google search, Adolf Hitler chain smoked aggressively from age 25-40. But eventually he stopped. He thought smoking was a waste of money. Guess what happened 4 years after Hitler gave up his #1 vice? The Holocaust. 

I don't know if those things are all related, I'm just connecting the dots I have at my disposal. Sometimes you need a vice like "smoking while texting and driving" to keep you from doing something terrible. It's the squeaky clean people like Subway Jared & Hitler that you have to worry about. If we were getting nothing but pictures of Travis Kelce volunteering for charities I would be significantly more worried. That would mean he's hiding something.  I shudder to think what Travis Kelce would be doing if he didn't have his vice. So let's cut the guy some slack. For one, we still don't know for sure what he's smoking. It could very well be vitamins. And even if it is a scary 100% legal substance like marijuana, that's ok. It doesn't make him a bad guy. It just makes him really cool and relatable to children.