Jason Kelce on how he fumbled first date with now wife Kylie | The Pivot Podcast

you uh you wrestle now with your family you know you mentioned being able to spend more time I have a question bro like you're a handsome guy you were in voted like one of the sexiest men on the planet that was more like a joke at one time so couldn't have been hard to to date you were in the NFL I mean you have that going for you bro why the hell was you on Tinder uh it was fun yeah I mean you're you're I'm young I'm single uh you know you're you're just having fun I don't know I lived in the city I'd go out all the time I mean when you're young you can go out I can go to practice after being out till you know 2: 3 in the morning and function just fine so that that that no longer last either that's not a thing more I remember yeah I can't definitely can't do that and then I remember Brent celic uh telling me one time like he's like man I feel like crap I ate this I drank this milkshake last night and I'm like yeah it's not the football that makes you feel like crap it's the milkshake what are you talking about bro and then I ate some ice cream and then went out to practice the next day I was like oh [ __ ] I think Cel was on something like I feel terrible today so you yeah you find out that you know eventually you can't just eat and do whatever you want but early in your career you can and um I Liv down in the city of Philadelphia Old City uh and I'd walk around go to different bars restaurants and swipe Tinder and try and have fun and um it didn't last long and cuz I met my wife and then that was that but you met your wife on Tinder and you fumbled the date one of the best Sinners for sure in the history of the game Falls to sleep MH on a woman of his dreams a woman that he thought was so captivating he called for a second date yeah how did you fall asleep on the date and what was the call like like say boo you know like I know we swiped on each other and you came to meet me and the homies yeah I ped up a little bit but I would love to do it again yeah something like that um yeah I mean so we met up after the Eagles holiday party from that year so Jeffrey lurry throws a Christmas party holiday party every year and we had already been tuned up from that party so we were going to the billiard spot Buffalo Billiards in Old City uh afterwards as I go you know just hang out and have fun so we met up after all that so I think she understood that this was something that was set in place long before we were even going to meet up and all this stuff was going to happen so we agreed to go on a second date and I was captivated with her though and I I don't like I feel like if uh if she wouldn't have been a buffalo billers maybe I wouldn't have remember Buffalo billers at all but somehow something I snapped out of it and I still remember that moment still of her walking through that door um I don't remember a lot from that night but I remember that and then um apparently Bo and had to carry me home but yeah it was uh not the best first impression I'm just say this I know Bo yeah if Bo has to carry you you in bad shape bro for sure and I think I was he said I was fighting him every step of the way like I was just like making it harder and harder for him we were dropping me and yeah so I don't know what how a Tinder Works sure but you were just swiping what why was that swipe different than the other swipes well the first swipe she was the most beautiful person I ever seen on the app so that's why it was different right away but then you start messaging and you start talking and you're vibing and you're like oh this girl is really cool and then you you meet in person the first night not a lot of discussion right I'm in bad shape um but then you you keep you know we went out on a second date um uh went ice ice skating uh you know we and then we just kept hanging out and the more you talk in person the more you realize that there's a lot of like common uh values and and and and and and principles and uh the things that we both want out of life uh are matching up and that's when it really starts to be like okay I think she's really really different not just the other stuff do you open at some point with your shirtless body cuz I've seen you more without a shirt on than I ever wanted to in my life you seem like you like to take your shirt off yeah I mean I might have been shirtless the first night I don't remember remember but there's a decent chance is it Bob's Billiards yeah Buffalo billiard Buffalo bilard I don't know that they would let me with the shirt off there but um yeah I don't know at what point the shirt came off I know I don't even know if I should I know I've like uh I embarrassed myself the second date too cuz we're going ice skating and I'm tiing my skates and the moment I sit down a fart squee out yeah not good not good guys and luckily she laughed at that and I was like okay squeezed out and Ain like that happens all the time like I'm not like I'm not like a a you know a repetitive farter or whatever I don't know but um I don't it was so embarrassing and she laughed I was like all right we're be fine she can laugh at that we'll be good I I think that's a really dope story man I all of us in the NFL right we all have moments in our lives where we we go hard like we out partying just having a good time probably doing excessively as you mentioned try to get to practice and make it through yeah but we always find that that that one person that sort of helps us slow down and changes it we're all girl dads yeah right so my daughter she melted my heart and that was the one thing that slowed me down absolutely right your wife mhm how did she make you better my wife um first of all everything he just said like when you're when when you're on your own everything you do not everything but a lot of what you do is just you know intrinsically what you want and and it's very much a lifestyle and you're going out and doing things that uh that give you Joy and give you satisfaction and give you purpose and and and and entertainment uh what my wife did for me and I think Sports does this too but nothing does it like a spouse is ultimately you know everything that you're doing comes under the lens of us both and what am I doing to fulfill her and what am I doing uh to make her happy and to give her entertainment so the moment you know what she's done for me has really caused me to look outside myself and to really focus on on that aspect on how can I you know get the most what's what's the purpose of life what's the purpose of a marriage and you know I don't think it happens like consciously like I think you should look back and it's like man I'm like such a different person now than I was before I met Kylie and that magnifies when you have children CU I mean children are even I mean they would die if you weren't there they'll just walk out and you know drown my daughter would drown in the pool if I wasn't sitting there with her like she just walks in like I'm like you know you can't swim why are you walking in the pool um I think that's the number one thing um she's made me a more compassionate a more empathetic uh a better person just in general and that's carried over to everything else