So...Chip Kelly Was Married, To A Woman And Not Football, For 7 Years

Full, great read via the Washington Post

On a Monday afternoon nearly two years ago, a woman in her mid-forties settled into a long Metro ride, Dupont Circle to Landover, bound eventually for FedEx Field.

Jennifer Jenkins hadn’t been to an NFL game since she was a little girl, football making so much noise during one part of her life that for a long time she tuned it out. But this day in September 2013 was different: Chip Kelly was coaching his first NFL game, his Philadelphia Eagles playing the Washington Redskins.

Kelly coaches football in a way that calls attention to himself, but he keeps much of his life off limits. Even the profiles that have been written give little sense of him away from the field, apart from the occasional mention of how he is a lifelong bachelor, seemingly married to the game.

Wearing neither team’s colors, Jenkins reached the stadium that afternoon and an old friend from her native New Hampshire pushed a ticket into her hand. She found her seat near the 50-yard line, behind the Philadelphia bench, surrounded by the hopeful, the jeering and the curious.

A while before the game, she pulled out her cellphone and sent a text message to the Eagles’ rookie head coach, the man who had been her husband for seven years.

So people are going bananas over the notorious closeted bear bachelor Charles “Chip” Kelly having a wife for 7 years. Big whoop. Should we even care about this? Listen, I respect the shit out of Chip Kelly. Not only for his football mind, community endeavors, and ironclad testicles (I call the one that hangs more south the CSS Virginia), but for essentially saying FU to anyone who asks about his personal life. It’s gotta be difficult to be that much in the public eye and have things stay quiet. The dude keeps everything on the downlow. Am I interested in what makes this man tick? Of course. But as long as he’s not electrocuting dogs, banging sheep, or being a mole for Jerry Jones, Chip can do whatever he wants with his private life.

It may be is selfish, but I’m glad Chip ditched the dead weight and went back to being married to his one true love: Football. The pieces of the puzzle are starting to fit together even more…KNOCK KNOCK.