Lest you see former Eagles star and current sports media personality Jason Kelce out there living his very goofy truth, shirtless VIP box revelry and all, then look at his wife, Kylie Kelce, and think, “one of these things is not like the other,” think again. Kylie, whose new podcast Not Gonna Lie has taken the internet by storm, is also capable of extreme silliness, a trait she said she revealed to Jason immediately upon matching with him on dating app Tinder.
While appearing on an episode of fellow NFL WAG Allison Kucharczyk’s podcast, Sunday Sports Club, published Sunday, Kylie shared the story of the terrible—yet apparently effective, as we can see six years of marriage later—pickup lines she used on her future husband on the app.
Kylie explained that she swiped right on Jason without knowing he was an Eagles player or any kind of athlete, but thinking that “he’s cute and he looks like he could pick me up.” (A desirable quality for the 5’11” Kylie.) His photos were “like, him shirtless, tailgating,” she said. “Exactly what you’d think they are.”
“We matched,” Kylie recalled. “I sent him a pickup line. I said, ‘I’ve fallen, I need life alert. I’ve fallen for you, and I can’t get up.’”
Fumble.
“He messaged back and was like, ‘No. Like, You gotta try harder.’”
And so she did. Admitting to Kucharczyk that “this is so bad, I really limit how many people I tell this to, so this is privileged information,” she described her next attempt. (Second down, some might say.)
“I then messaged, ‘If I told you I work for UPS, would you let me handle your package?'”
Touchdown!
“He was like, ‘Much better. I like that one a lot.’”
The story of Jason falling asleep drunk on their first date has been shared before, but a lesser known element is that before that fateful meeting-turned-nap, Kylie was suspicious that she was being catfished, once she and her friends did a little research about who this guy was.
“When we first matched I did not know who he was. He didn’t have any pictures that indicated that he was with the Eagles, or that he was a football player,” she said. “I kept thinking to myself that his photos looked familiar. We googled with all the information that we had and we figured out that the photos were of a Philadelphia Eagle. So my friends and I were like, it’s a catfish.”
When he invited her to meet him at a bar with his friends, Kylie grabbed a trusted pal and went, figuring it would be hilarious whether it was or wasn’t actually the Jason Kelce they’d found on the internet.
“We went to the bar, we walked in and we were like shit that’s him!” she said. They had a “just great” conversation, until: “He was so inebriated he fell asleep on the bar table like 45 minutes in. Just out.”
Jason messaged her the next day apologizing and asking for a redo, which took the form of another bar outing. This time, everyone stayed awake, and the two chatted for three hours straight. Their early love story continued with a date at a museum dedicated to medical curiosities.
“It is basically, like, a bunch of jars of body parts in formaldehyde,” Kylie said of the offbeat date spot. “This is how you know we were meant for each other. When I told him I wanted to go to a museum of medical oddities, he was in.”
And how did she know it was love? When he sent her “a picture of a monkey on a beach.” See, Jason had explained that he was leaving for a 10-day trip to Thailand and wasn’t sure he’d be able to get in touch. Kylie was suspicious that it could be a weirdly elaborate blow-off tactic, until that image showed up.
“I was like, ‘Oh, he actually went to Thailand.’ That was the moment where I was like, ‘ok.’”
And the rest is history: The two got married in 2018, just two months after Jason and the Eagles won the Super Bowl, and they are now the proud parents of his-and-hers podcasts and three (soon to be four) daughters.
