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Travis Kelce fined $14K for emulating Tony Gonzalez’s signature goalpost dunk

Travis Kelce’s milestone catch🐟 on Christmas Day has come with a fine.

The ꦕtight end’s touchdown catch in Kansas City’s win over Pit꧃tsburgh was the 77th of his career, moving him past Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez on the Chiefs’ all-time list.

After the touchdown, Kelce — Taylor Swift’sജ famous boyfriend — dunked the ball over the goal post, which was a violation of NFL rules.

Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs celebrating a touchdown during a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Travis Kelce was fined $14,069 by the NFL. Getty Images

The league announced Saturday thaꦅt it fined Kelce $14,069 for “Unsport🌠manlike Conduct Use of Prop,” .

Gonzalez, who was inducꩵted into the Hall of Fame in 2019,✱ thanked Kelce for the recognition and offered to pay his fine.

Swift — who was not in attendance for Kelce’s milestone touchdown — found time to like Instagram posts from the Chiefs account and the account for her boyfriend and brother J꧟ason’s “New Heights” podcast that shouted out Travis for the achievement.

Before the l🦂eague made it illegal, Gonzalez made the goalpost dunk a signature move after every one of his touchdowns throughout his career that was em𓆉ulated by many other receivers at the time.

Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs celebrating a touchdown during a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Acrisure Stadium
Travis Kelce’s touchdown against the Steelers marked the 77th of his
career. Getty Images

But in 2013, Saints tight end J꧂immy Graham caused a game to be delayed when he knocked the goal post off balance with a dunk.

In the followin🌟g offseason, the NFL made the mov❀e a penalty, aka “The Jimmy Graham rule.”

Gonzalez played for the Chiefs fr🐽om 1997-20ꦰ08, and Kelce joined Kansas City in 2013.