New investor Travis Kelce dreams up own Cedar Point coaster, with loops, drops and dangling feet

SANDUSKY, Ohio – What would a Travis Kelce coaster look like?

It would have “a few drops,” “definitely loops,” and possibly dangling feet, because “being a big guy, I don’t gotta worry about my height being an issue on this thing,” the NFL star and new Six Flags investor said on a recent podcast.

Kelce, egged on by older brother Jason, was recently asked to consider what a Kelce roller coaster might look like. “Let’s play in the land of make-believe,” the older Kelce said.

And so they did.

Travis Kelce, the Cleveland Heights native and two-time Super Bowl champ with the Kansas City Chiefs, made headlines in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere last week after joining a group of investors taking a major stake in Six Flags, the troubled amusement park operator and parent company to Ohio’s Cedar Point and Kings Island.

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It’s unclear how involved Kelce plans to be in the company, but he said on his New Heights podcast, which he co-hosts with Jason, that he has his Six Flags season pass ready to go and looks forward to exploring new parks when the NFL season is over.

“I’m going to try to get to as many as I can in the off-season,” he says, “and lay my eyes on everything Six Flags has to offer outside of just Ohio.”

Kelce makes no mention of whether his famous fiancée, pop star Taylor Swift, might join him on this park tour.

A spokesman for Six Flags, Gary Rhodes, declined to comment on any role, current or future, that Travis Kelce might play in the company.

The brothers spent nearly six minutes at the beginning of last week’s show reminiscing about Cedar Point, Geauga Lake and Kings Island, which they visited when they were both students at the University of Cincinnati.

They said their mother, Donna Kelce, worked at Geauga Lake, as did an uncle. (There was no mention of the abrupt closure of Geauga Lake in 2007 by Cedar Fair, which merged with Six Flags last year.)

Jason Kelce, a former center for the Philadelphia Eagles, acknowledged on the show that he too has become an investor in Six Flags.

“I’m investing too, brother — I’m just going to keep riding your coattails,” he said. “The moment I heard about Six Flags, those memories came back.”

But the most fun comes when the two start talking about what kind of roller coaster Travis might want built in his honor.

While Kelce voices support for a drop or two, he wants “nothing crazy like Millennium Force,” which stands 308 feet above the pavement at Cedar Point.

He also said he likes Raptor, with dangling feet and trains that hang below the track; shoulder harnesses; and indoor rides (“those were some of the coolest ones,” he says.)

At the end of the discussion, Jason says, “I’m excited to see what becomes of this.”

He’s not the only one.

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