Kelce was interviewed by Vegas Sports Today prior to the Super Bowl, where he asserted, “We will do whatever it takes to win. There will be no relenting, no turning back.”

Travis Kelce says he wants no part in white people thinking he created the fade.Kelce was interviewed by Vegas Sports Today ahead of the Super Bowl on Tuesday (Feb. 6). A reporter asked him about The New York Times report that the Kansas City Chiefs star “revolutionized” the fade haircut. The tight end thought the ordeal was “ridiculous”, insisting that he doesn’t want to take any credit in starting or trailblazing the popular Black haircut.

“That’s absolutely ridiculous,” he said with a smile, laughing off the Times‘ story. “And to do it on February 1st and throw me to the wolves like that, that’s messed up, man. I don’t want anything to do with that, man. I got a good fade, though, if you need it. I get a No. 2 on top with a high to mid fade with a taper in the back. But I didn’t invent that. I just asked for it.”

Kelce previously addressed the idea that he somehow Christopher Columbused an already known haircut. During a recent episode of Shannon Sharpe and Chad Johnson’s Nightcap, the former athletes talked about white

“Ocho, I’ve been getting a fade since ’86,” Sharpe said. “Wait, he don’t have a fade, he got a buzz cut. Like when you go to the Army bro, how bro,” Johnson responded. Shannon then aimed his criticism at the NYT. He called out the publication for “doing this during Black History Month.” “So, New York Times, so that’s how you start Black History? Giving Trav — and that’s my nephew — you gonna give him credit for the fade? We’ve been seeing the fade for years!”

Travis caught wind of the video and stated that he wasn’t the creator of the timeless cut. He also called the headlines “wild” and said that the haircut was something that existed before he did. “These headlines are wild,” Kelce wrote. “The fade has been around long before my life even began.”