Jason Kelce's Wife Told Him to Be on His 'Best Behavior' Around Taylor Swift at Chiefs Game, His Response to Her was Gold
Editor’s Note: Our readers responded strongly to this story when it originally ran; we’re reposting it here in case you missed it.
If you watched the Jan. 22 NFL playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs, then you probably saw a shirtless Jason Kelce celebrating his brother’s touchdown.
If you missed it, here’s a quick recap: Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce scored. Then his shirtless older brother, who plays for the Philadelphia Eagles and thus had the weekend off, let out a shout, pounded a beer and jumped from the box from which he had been watching the game — with Travis Kelce’s girlfriend Taylor Swift — and into the crowd.
NO. 1 HYPE MAN!!!!@JasonKelce x @newheightshow pic.twitter.com/S9k3shjOf5
— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) January 22, 2024
If you saw it, your reaction may have been similar to a lot of people’s: a smile or a laugh at the enthusiastic support of one brother for another, no matter who was watching.
That is not, however, how Jason Kelce’s wife, Kylie Kelce, apparently viewed the incident.
The Kelce brothers discussed Jason’s actions — and his wife’s reactions — on the latest episode of their podcast, “New Heights.”
“I watched this [Jason Kelce’s celebration] and it was pure pandemonium,” Travis Kelce said on the podcast. “Just pure pandemonium.”
He added that he wished he’d been able to see Kylie Kelce’s reaction to her husband’s antics, but it didn’t appear to be captured by any of the cameras in the stadium.
“I gave Kylie a heads-up,” Jason Kelce told his brother. “The moment we got into the suite, I said, ‘I’m taking my shirt off and I’m jumping out of that suite.’ And she said, ‘Jason, don’t you dare.’
“I was like, ‘Hey, just letting you know it’s happening. I’m not asking for permission, I’m doing this,'” he said.
“She was already telling me to be on my best behavior because we were meeting Taylor (Swift). … I was like, ‘Kylie, when I met you, the first day I met you I was blackout drunk and fell asleep at the bar. This is part of the charm. This is part of the Jason Kelce charm.'”
The Eagles center joked that his strategy was to make a terrible first impression, so that expectations for his future behavior would be low.
That worked with Swift, apparently, as Travis Kelce told his brother that “Tay said she absolutely loves you.”
Kylie Kelce’s reaction was a little different, apparently.
“I don’t think she was happy about it, to be honest with you,” Jason Kelce said.
Jason Kelce only knows one way to make an impression
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— New Heights (@newheightshow) January 24, 2024
Interested readers can watch the entire podcast episode here or subscribe to the Kelces’ podcast here (but note the language is not censored on the full version the way it is in the shorter clips the brothers use for promoting the podcast).
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