Travis Kelce Teases Brother Jason Kelce Over His ‘Neanderthal’ Fashion

Travis Kelce realizes that from the surface, followers might not assume he and his brother Jason Kelce have a lot in frequent.

Throughout a sit-down with Good Morning America‘s Will Reeve that aired on Thursday, June 6, the 34-year-old NFL star opened up concerning the success of he and his brother’s New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce podcast, explaining that he launched it in hopes that followers might perceive their bond.

“In case you checked out us on two completely different groups, you actually didn’t even assume we had been brothers; we simply had the identical final identify,” Travis mentioned, throwing a playful jab at Jason’s fashion. “Simply because he’s like, the neanderthal that wears flip flops within the winter and doesn’t even care what he appears to be like like and I wish to throw on modern stuff and have enjoyable.”

That is modified after the 2 — Travis with the Kansas Metropolis Cheifs and Jason, previously with the Philadelphia Eagles — launched their podcast in September 2022. It is since turn into an enormous hit, and in March was named podcast of the yr at iHeartMedia’s 2024 iHeartPodcast Awards.

“Once I let you know I couldn’t even imagined it will get to the purpose it’s in the present day,” Jason informed Reeve. “And I’m so lucky that everyone form of latched on to me and my brother’s household dynamic as a result of that’s actually what my purpose was after we began the podcast. … By the podcast we’ve been in a position to present everyone simply how shut we’re as brothers.”

New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce drops new episodes weekly. The podcast usually options the brothers discussing their life and careers.

Travis and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs are making ready for a brand new NFL season, the place they’ll defend their back-to-back Tremendous Bowl championships

Past his success on the soccer discipline, Travis has been laborious at work on his exterior endeavors this offseason. Between visiting girlfriend Taylor Swift on her worldwide tour, the tight finish has accomplished filming his scenes for the upcoming Ryan Murphy collection Grotesquerie, and wrapped taking pictures on Are You Smarter Than a Celeb?, which he’ll be internet hosting for Prime Video.

The Chiefs have discovered themselves the topics of a newsy offseason since their win over the San Francisco 49ers in Tremendous Bowl LVIII, with kicker Harrison Butker making headlines for his controversial graduation speech at Benedictine School’s commencement ceremony and a handful of gamers navigating authorized allegations.

Butker, 28, decried varied “diabolical lies informed to ladies” about subjects together with abortion, in vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy, in addition to President Joe Biden throughout the Might 11 commencement ceremony on the Catholic faculty.

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After Butker’s feedback went viral on social media, Travis addressed the backlash towards his teammate throughout an episode of New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce.

“I cherish him as a teammate,” Travis mentioned of Butker. “He’s handled family and friends that I’ve launched to him with nothing however respect and kindness. And that’s how he treats everybody. When it comes right down to his views and what he mentioned at [Benedictine’s] graduation speech, these are his,” the tight finish continued. 

“I can’t say I agree with nearly all of it or simply about any of it exterior of simply him loving his household and his youngsters. And I don’t assume that I ought to decide him by his views, particularly his spiritual views, of learn how to go about life, that’s simply not who I’m,” Travis added.

Furthermore, the upcoming NFL season can be Travis’ first within the league since Jason retired from soccer in March.

Jason, 36, introduced his retirement in a tearful 40-minute speech through which he mirrored on taking part in alongside his brother since they had been youngsters. “We received numerous Tremendous Bowls in our minds, earlier than even leaving the home,” Jason mentioned, recalling their days taking part in soccer, armed with Capri Solar drinks which their mother, Donna Kelce, packed for them.

On the June 5 episode of their podcast, Jason informed Travis he is nonetheless adjusting to retired life. “It feels bizarre, not, , going into the constructing and man, it is simply the little conversations you could have,” Jason mentioned of his first offseason after retiring. “You will notice it, Trav, as soon as it is gone,” he added.

Travis jokingly replied, “I am by no means doing it. Not after that.”

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