This one’s kinda going over my head. Is this a CTE joke? I get that it’s referencing 50 first dates but I don’t know why
It is a joke based on both the movie 50 First Dates because the ending has the movie a morning thing and Kelce is in a sport with a lot of brain injuries that frequently lead to memory loss.
So yeah, CTE + a com com.
I don’t think it went over your head.
That’s my guess, too.
I initially read it as, “Travis Kelce is so lucky that Taylor Swift feels obligated to remind him every morning.” CTE makes more sense, but isn’t quite as amusing.
That’s as much as I got from it too. I did manage to find an old article where he had a concussion with memory loss.
Oh look, a traumatic brain injury joke. So funny.
I guess this is one of those “The Onion is Boomer humor” pieces I have heard so much about.
EDIT: I am not a fan of jokes that target people’s ethnicity, sexual preference, or disability, and that definitely includes traumatic injury. If that makes me a buzzkill, then so be it.
Nah, it is funny in the context of how fine society is with brain injuries from sports. Dark humor, not boomer humor.
TBI is awful but I don’t see why it’d be off the table? They’ve not shied from sensitive topics in their whole history.
isnt it also in their standard of “bringing light to terribly true things” by making satire of it?
If they see this as “making fun of disabilities” - that might be more on them.
Dude hasn’t gotten brain damage from an accident or born with it. He’s gotten repeated brain damage to entertain millions of people in a game.
I think “bringing light to terribly true things” is an appropriate description for referencing the detrimental medical effects of professional football on the players.
Should we joke about when he attacked an old man because Kelce himself screwed up a play. Very normal behavior of a well adjusted definitely not man child.
‘Attacked’ is disingenuous. He got confrontational and right up in the coach’s face and personal space while shouting. But no hands were thrown, and afaik the coach did not get pushed back or have to catch his footing.
Travis was completely unjustified and hugely overreacted about sports, but you should be honest.
Assuming that’s real, yes, yes we should. Or The Onion writers should.
I know nothing of the man. Literally zero other than the fact that he plays football and dates Taylor Swift. I just don’t find jokes about disabilities, including traumatic brain injuries, funny.
