Travis Kelce Asks Chiefs Assistant to Call His Mom to Get Mac and Cheese in Hilarious Throwback Video

Mar. 15, 2025

Travis Kelce and Donna Kelce in 2023.Photo:Steve Granitz/FilmMagic

Steve Granitz/FilmMagic

Travis Kelceis a man of taste.

In honor of theKansas City Chiefs tight end’s 35th birthday on Oct. 5, thefootball team’s official Instagram accounthas been sharing lots of Kelce content — including a particularly delicious clip.

The throwbackReelfeatures snippets of Travis, captioned, “No better day to pull out some of @killatrav’s greatest hits 🎙️.” The video starts with Travis — sporting a longer hairstyle at the time — requesting a Chiefs assistant on the sidelines to call his mom,Donna Kelce, about what he wants for dinner.

“Can you call my mother for me from that phone right there?” Travis asks. The assistant tells the football player he doesn’t know if he can “use it from the sideline.”

Nevertheless, Travis continues, “and tell her that I don’t want the macaroni and cheese with the regular noodles. I want the gnocchi.”

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He then wonders aloud how to pronounce the pasta shape, going back and forth with the assistant about how to properly say it, incorrectly settling on “ganache.”

“I’ll get right on that,” the assistant deadpans.

“Yeah, not the regular noodles,” Travis says one more time. “The ganache noodles.”

Travis Kelce and Donna Kelce in 2023.Christian Petersen/Getty

Donna is no stranger to feeding hungry football players.She previously spoke with PEOPLEabout Travis and his brotherJason Kelce’s voracious appetites growing up. Jason, 36, previously played for the Philadelphia Eagles from 2011 until his retirement following the 2023-2024 season.

“They ate a lot,” Donna said of her kids in October 2023. “They could sit down and eat an entire chicken in high school each — not together; each one of them could finish a chicken.”

She added that she would constantly need to buy milk since her sons drank it every day, and there was no chance of leftovers sticking around. “Even if you put your name on it and put a rubber band around the carton,” it would be devoured, Donna said.

Travis Kelce and Donna Kelce in 2023.Barry Brecheisen/Getty

Barry Brecheisen/Getty

Donna is also known for her cookie recipe, which shefamously made for Jason and Travisahead of the 2023 Super Bowl when the Eagles and Chiefs faced off in Arizona.

source: people.com