{"id":89780,"date":"2025-09-22T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=89780"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:11:58","slug":"travis-kelce-fined-for-obscene-gesture-during-chiefs-vs-eagles-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/travis-kelce-fined-for-obscene-gesture-during-chiefs-vs-eagles-game\/89780\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Kelce Fined for \u2018Obscene Gesture\u2019 During Chiefs vs. Eagles Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"137\" data-end=\"312\">Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce has been fined $14,491 by the NFL for making an obscene gesture during the team\u2019s 20-17 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on September 14.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"314\" data-end=\"604\">The tight end celebrated a 23-yard gain by gesturing toward his groin area \u201cin an animated fashion.\u201d While on-field officials did not call a penalty, league offices later determined the action violated NFL rules against gestures deemed \u201cunsportsmanlike, violent, and sexually suggestive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"606\" data-end=\"844\">The fine is a drop in the bucket for Kelce, who reportedly earns $17.25 million annually from football alone, excluding sponsorships and advertising deals. Fellow NFL star Saquon Barkley was also fined $46,371 for unnecessary roughness.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"846\" data-end=\"1078\">Fans took to social media to react to Kelce\u2019s fine, with many calling it excessive. One tweeted: \u201cImagine getting fined for an amount you make in 15 seconds,\u201d while another added, \u201cSo he was fined for celebrating a catch? Got it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1080\" data-end=\"1349\">The news comes shortly after Kelce\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, Taylor Swift, drew attention for arriving at an Arrowhead Stadium game behind a $6,000 bullet-resistant shield, sparking questions about privacy and security following the assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce has been fined $14,491 by the NFL for making an obscene gesture during the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":89781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1088],"class_list":["post-89780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-travis-kelce"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}