Chip Kelly’s wife Jennifer Jenkins was interviewed in 2015, well after their divorce, by the prestigious Washington Post about her seven-year marriage with the Chip. Nobody knew he was even married, apparently. According to her, every media account of him was that he was a bachelor, and all her friends would ask her what the deal was with that. This really is pretty odd. I mean, he’s not a 23 year-old John Lennon, guys. He doesn’t have a massive army of teenage girls buying posters of him and lusting after him. Or…maybe he does? The mystery revealed…
According to Chip Kelly’s ex-wife, the guy who was just fired from the Philadelphia Eagles organization spent a summer running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. That’s pretty cool– very Hemingway. It was also mentioned that while Kelly was the coach of Oregon, he lived in a house with almost nothing in it except a big-screen television. Hey, he’s like Steve Jobs in the 1980’s. He’s the Steve Jobs of football coaching, you’ll see! Anyway, Jennifer Jenkins is still friends with Chip, and she thinks a lot of the marriage cover-up is pretty funny. She said it hurt, as if seven years were washed away, but now it’s mostly funny to her.
The couple met back in 1989 when Chip Kelly’s ex-wife was a senior at New Hampshire College. They got hitched in 1992, and, like I said, the marriage went for about seven years. Jennifer keeps a photo of their wedding on her iPhone just to prove the whole thing happened since no one believed her. They got divorced in 1999 because football was straining their relationship. Anyway, this is all sort of ancient history, and Chip clearly never got married again. His real wife is football. Jennifer now runs a company that sells little care packages for people with the flu or colds, and it’s named after her mom. I think that’s pretty cool, and I like it as a business idea.
