Travis Kelce made his ideas on the NFL referees and a few of their seemingly questionable calls identified throughout a digital cameo on his brother Jason Kelce’s They Name It Late Evening present forward of the 2025 Tremendous Bowl.
“Be trustworthy, if [the Kansas City Chiefs] would have misplaced, would you be right here proper now?” Jason, 37, requested his sibling, 35, on the Saturday, February 1, episode of his ESPN speak present.
In response to Travis, he would have “100%” proven up in particular person had the Chiefs misplaced to the Buffalo Payments within the AFC championship earlier this month. (Kansas Metropolis gained 32-29, securing their third consecutive Tremendous Bowl look.)
“Dammit, Josh [Allen], why’d it’s important to damage this?” Jason quipped.
Opposite to what your common sports activities fan may inform you, NFL referees don’t truly care who wins the video games they’re calling — however that doesn’t cease followers from crying “repair” when a name goes towards their group. It additionally doesn’t cease Jason Kelce from needling his brother, Travis Kelce, on accusations that his Kansas Metropolis […]
Travis then instructed his older brother to not blame the 28-year-old Payments quarterback, who the tight finish mentioned “performed his tail off.” Jason then jokingly questioned if the sport’s referees have been responsible as a substitute.
“What? I assumed it was truthful,” Travis diplomatically responded.
All through the 2024-2025 season, some NFL followers have accused officers of favoritism and bias towards the reigning Tremendous Bowl champions. (The Chiefs gained back-to-back in 2023 and 2024, and at the moment are hoping to take dwelling the Lombardi Trophy for a 3rd consecutive time — the primary NFL group to ever win three in a row.)
Different members of the Chiefs group have additionally denied that the powerhouse group is getting preferential therapy.
“We are able to stick with false narratives or focus on this — KC was seventeenth in % of scoring drives that have been aided by a penalty for a primary down on such drives in [a] common season,” longtime Chiefs radio announcer Mitch Holthus mentioned in a social media assertion earlier this week. “No 1? Look forward to it…Buffalo. 33% of scoring drives have been aided by penalty for a primary down on 86 scoring drives.”
The Chiefs, in the meantime, are at present focusing their efforts on Tremendous Bowl LIX on Sunday, February 9 — a rematch of the 2023 Large Sport towards the Philadelphia Eagles — later this month.
“I’m wishing the perfect for these guys [and] go birds,” Travis mentioned on Saturday earlier than noting how the Chiefs are getting ready for the matchup. “This group nonetheless feels hungry and it feels new virtually. We received a whole lot of new gamers, received a whole lot of completely different faces from the earlier two Tremendous Bowl runs and it’s a very completely different identification on the offensive aspect.”
Travis Kelce responded after Lil Wayne aired his beef with the “dishonest” Kansas Metropolis Chiefs on social media. Through the Chiefs’ NFL Divisional playoff sport towards the Houston Texans on Saturday, January 18, Wayne, 42, took to X and let his emotions about Kelce’s squad be identified. “I hate the dishonest azz chiefs,” the rapper […]
In response to the Chiefs tight finish, the offensive line has a “new mindset” going into the Tremendous Bowl, whereas the protection gamers stay “fairly stout.”
“It’s a brand new journey,” Travis added.
In a while the published, Travis performed coy in regards to the Chiefs’ sport plan — or whether or not he’d be dealing with the kickoff coin toss. (Travis is a group captain, alongside Patrick Mahomes, Chris Jones, Nick Bolton, Harrison Butker and James Winchester.)
“I can neither affirm nor deny,” Travis coyly joked of the coin toss. “I feel it’s going to be heads or tails.”
