WHEN TRAVIS KELCE was a young man, his college football coach pulled him aside one day and told him the secret of life: Everybody you meet in this world is either a fountain or a drain.
“I need fountains,” the coach growled at Kelce. “I don’t need f—ing drains. Travis, you’re f—ing draaaining me!”Something stunning happened in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s Kansas City Chiefs game: a pass from Patrick Mahomes to Travis Kelce fell incomplete.
For any other tandem in football, this is a normal occurrence. But nothing about this season has been normal for Kelce. The incompletion snapped a streak of 29 consecutive passes directed to him that Kelce had successfully hauled in.
