Travis Kelce Swats Away Fan Reaching for His Glove Before Chiefs Opener

Travis Kelce is used to attention, but Monday night at Arrowhead he got a little more than he bargained for. As he walked off the field before the Chiefs-Broncos opener, video shows him pulling off his right glove and fist-bumping fans along the rail. One eager spectator grabbed at the glove, and Kelce swatted the hand away and let the fan know about it. Social media split right down the middle, with some saying he should not have carried the glove in that hand and others saying it looked like he was handing it over.

The moment went viral fast, mostly because everything involving Kelce and Taylor Swift does these days. Swift watched from the stands with both sets of parents, his brother Jason, and Tom Cruise, marking their first NFL game since their July wedding at Madison Square Garden. Whatever you think of the glove exchange, the man still had a job to do, and he did it. Kelce, 36, and the Chiefs beat Denver 31-10.

Here’s the part worth chewing on: there is a right way to ask for memorabilia and a wrong way, and grabbing at a player’s hand falls firmly in the wrong column. That said, players know a glove dangling in front of a stadium full of people is going to draw some reach. Either way, it’s a reminder that game day boundaries run both directions.

So what do you think? Did Kelce overreact, or did that fan cross a line?