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Getting engaged is usually cause for celebration. Unless your name is Taylor Swift, and the internet is more concerned about what this could mean for your fiancés career. After announcing her engagement to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, some unsolicited commenters were quick to speculate that this could signal Kelce's retirement from the NFL. Surely these upcoming nuptials were to blame, and not his 12-year long career (for reference, the average NFL career is just over three years ).
While we certainly wouldn't call Kelce an average player, his professional football career is nearly four times longer than most. Blaming Swift for Kelce's unconfirmed retirement validates what we already know: it's not always eas