Usually when people call Travis Kelce a game changer, they’re talking about football.
But the gridiron seemed to be the last thing on anyone’s mind on this balmy Thursday night inside the Guild KC, a chic Crossroads event space brimming with Kelce’s friends and family, philanthropists, statuesque models and 20-something socialites (and social climbers), savvy media agents and personalities, and even a few impossible-to-ignore Chiefs players.
It certainly was for Mary Esselman, with her sunrise of a smile and rather unassuming presence.
Standing a few feet from Kelce and his $4,000 Gucci suit, Esselman — bobbed, bespectacled and draped in a modest black top and floral cardigan, leaned close and extolled: “Events like tonight really help open up what we do to a community that might not be so familiar.