{"id":755792,"date":"2026-07-11T01:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T01:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/755792\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T01:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T01:57:08","slug":"travis-kelce-regrets-how-he-spent-his-first-nfl-paycheck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/755792\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Kelce Regrets How He Spent His First NFL Paycheck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Super Bowl champ explained, his goal in life was to live a \u201cballer lifestyle,\u201d but that unfortunately that castle was crumbling down after only a year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe money was just flying out of the account,\u201d he recalled. \u201cLearning from my experiences was the best thing for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, he was able to make a change, mostly because he was fortunate enough to still get another paycheck. But the memories of his first experience are still with him, adding, \u201cAvoiding the rent lady when I make over six figures? Not the best feeling in the world. Embarrassing moment again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, the guy on the Chiefs is grateful for his early experiences, even if he doesn\u2019t always approve of them in retrospect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely been a journey and an experience that I kind of appreciate over the course of time,\u201d Travis explained. \u201cBecause those embarrassing moments in my life helped me figure out exactly how to spend, how to save, how to invest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more athletes who also figured out how to manage their salaries, keep reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Super Bowl champ explained, his goal in life was to live a \u201cballer lifestyle,\u201d but that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-755792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}