{"id":2028100,"date":"2025-09-17T04:50:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2028100"},"modified":"2025-09-17T04:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:50:01","slug":"travis-kelce-facing-backlash-after-wearing-controversial-t-shirt-ahead-of-kansas-city-chiefs-game-star-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/travis-kelce-facing-backlash-after-wearing-controversial-t-shirt-ahead-of-kansas-city-chiefs-game-star-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Kelce Facing Backlash After Wearing Controversial T-Shirt Ahead of Kansas City Chiefs Game \u2013 Star Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2570px;\"><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">ZUMAPRESS.com \/ MEGA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/tag\/travis-kelce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Travis Kelce<\/strong><\/a> is no stranger to making headlines, but this time, he\u2019s found himself in the hot seat.<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 35, was spotted wearing a T-shirt with a photo collage of his teammate <strong>Rashee Rice<\/strong> and the words \u201cFree 4\u201d emblazoned across the front before the team took on the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, September 14.<\/p>\n<p>Rice, 25, was driving a Lamborghini Urus SUV at high speeds in March 2024 before crashing on the North Central Expressway in Dallas, Texas. He and his former college teammate, <strong>Theodore \u201cTeddy\u201d Knox<\/strong>, were allegedly racing one another at the time and their aggressive maneuvers in traffic triggered a chain reaction of car accidents involving six cars.<\/p>\n<p>The accident left several people injured, and authorities said that Rice left the scene without checking on the other drivers.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2025, Rice pleaded guilty to two third-degree felony charges: collision involving serious bodily injury and racing on a highway causing bodily injury. He was given five years\u2019 probation and 30 days in jail, and the following month, Rice was suspended from playing six games and he\u2019s prohibited from practicing with the Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>Kelce and his teammate <strong>Tyquan Thornton<\/strong> both sparked outrage from <strong>Kathryn Kuykendall<\/strong> \u2014 who was injured in the crash \u2014 and her attorney slammed the Super Bowl champs for wearing the shirts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI respect that Kelce and Thornton support their teammate, but the \u2018gym teacher\u2019 needs to talk with the history teacher,\u201d Kuykendall\u2019s attorney <strong>Marc Lenahan<\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/09\/16\/travis-kelce-rashee-rice-crash-victim-lawyer-free-4-shirt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> said in a statement to <em>TMZ<\/em><\/a> on Monday, September 15, referencing Kelce and <strong>Taylor Swift\u2019s<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/taylor-swift-reveals-engagement-to-travis-kelce-shows-off-diamond-ring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent engagement announcement<\/a>. \u201cRashee isn\u2019t Nelson Mandela or Pepe Mujica, men who fought for what they believed in. Free Rashee? He already thinks he\u2019s getting away scot-free. He\u2019s not paid a single cent of the $1.1 million judgment he already owes our client, who is living anything but pain-free.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20273\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1660px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20273\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/travis-kelce-rashee-rice-shirt-02.jpg\" alt=\"Rashee Rice in a mugshot photo wearing a black hoodie with visible neck tattoos and long dreadlocks.\" width=\"1650\" height=\"2262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/travis-kelce-rashee-rice-shirt-02.jpg 1650w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/travis-kelce-rashee-rice-shirt-02-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/travis-kelce-rashee-rice-shirt-02-747x1024.jpg 747w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/travis-kelce-rashee-rice-shirt-02-768x1053.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/travis-kelce-rashee-rice-shirt-02-1120x1536.jpg 1120w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/travis-kelce-rashee-rice-shirt-02-1494x2048.jpg 1494w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\"\/><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mega Agency<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rice previously issued a statement apologizing for the accident he caused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast March, I was involved in a high-speed accident in Dallas,\u201d he said in a statement through his attorney, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kmbc.com\/article\/rashee-rice-sentenced-five-years-probation-30-days-of-jail-time\/65438754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per KMBC 9 News<\/a>. \u201cThere have been a lot of sleepless nights thinking about the damages that my actions caused, and I will continue working within my means to make sure that everyone impacted will be made whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source starmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZUMAPRESS.com \/ MEGA Travis Kelce is no stranger to making headlines, but this time, he\u2019s found himself in the hot seat. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 35, was spotted wearing a T-shirt with a photo collage of his teammate Rashee Rice and the words \u201cFree 4\u201d emblazoned across the front before the team took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2028101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Travis-Kelce-Facing-Backlash-After-Wearing-Controversial-T-Shirt-Ahead-of.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}