Travis and Jason Kelce Reveal Holiday Traditions: ‘After Thanksgiving's Over, You Put the Christmas Tree Up’

Mar. 15, 2025

Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce at an NBA game on May 11, 2023.Photo:Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty

Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty

Travis KelceandJason Kelceare ready for the holiday season.

Speaking in a new episode ofNew Heights with Jason and Travis Kelcepodcast, released Wednesday, Nov. 20, the brothers answered a series of questions from fans — including a query about the holidays.

Asked when the appropriate time was to put up a Christmas tree, Jason, 37, said, “I think Thanksgiving has always been the date.”

“In the Kelce household Thanksgiving was the day,” Travis, 35, added, to which Jason said, “Yeah, I mean preferably you put it up on Thanksgiving."

The retired Philadelphia Eagles center, added, “I like the tradition, we’ve never done it at our house, but maybe we’ll actually get it done this year, where after Thanksgiving’s over you put the Christmas tree up. I like that tradition, I think that’s a really good one.”

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Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce smiling together.Travis Kelce/ Instagram

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“Thanksgiving is really the start of Christmas season,” he said, to which Travis added, “We would have the Christmas [tree] already up though."

Jason replied, “No but you got the Christmas tree, you’ve bought it already but it hasn’t been put up.”

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However, Travis was “pretty sure” they would put up the Christmas tree a few days before, “and then you’d dress the tree.”

“Thanksgiving is definitely the pinnacle day, that’s the start of Christmas season,” Jason said. “I sit here advertising Thanksgiving.”

Meanwhile, Travis expressed that he didn’t want to see Christmas lights at the start of November.

source: people.com