Jason Kelce ; Inset: Taylor Swift Mitchell Leff/Getty Picture ; Inset: Kevin Mazur/TAS24/Getty Photographs
Jason Kelce’s abilities as an NFL middle apparently don’t translate to these of a kicker.
Kelce, 36, made a visitor look on ESPN’s Faculty Sport Day on Saturday, November 2, the place he was challenged to kick a subject objective on behalf of hurricane reduction funds.
“New Heights!” Kelce bellowed as he tried the objective, a nod to his and brother Travis’ podcast of the identical identify.
The kick, nonetheless, did not land in between the goalposts. Cohost Pat McAfee then provided Kelce a second probability to earn huge bucks for the worthy trigger.
Dustin Satloff/Getty Photographs; Jamie Squire/Getty Photographs Jason Kelce is defending his brother, Travis Kelce. Jason, 36, admitted that it’s arduous for him to witness Travis, 34, dealing with criticism for getting off to a gradual begin this soccer season. “There ain’t no person that I’ve ever performed sports activities with and no person that anyone’s ever been on a […]
“Bear in mind what you say about kickers?” McAfee, 37, reminded Kelce of earlier podcast feedback he made lately, which disparaged the soccer place as unimportant. The sports activities broadcaster then instructed Kelce that he had it on “good authority” that $200,000 can be donated to reduction funds if he made the objective.
“No strain. For the folks!” McAfee teased.
Regardless of the gang hyping him up, Kelce, sadly, missed the objective once more.
Assume @JasonKelce has some new admiration for kickers 😅@PatMcAfeeShow | @newheightshow pic.twitter.com/pOzYWHcVG2
— Faculty GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) November 2, 2024
“This man sucks,” McAfee joked, earlier than including, “Jason, you didn’t let everyone down.”
Forward of Kelce’s two kicks, McAfee couldn’t resist asking if he can be attending “your future sister-in-law’s live performance tomorrow evening.” (Travis, 35, is relationship pop star Taylor Swift, who’s within the midst of a three-night residency in Indianapolis on her Eras Tour all through the weekend.)
“Feeling 22, brother,” McAfee added, referring to Swift’s tune of the identical identify.
Kelce, who didn’t reveal any potential Eras attendance, did settle for defeat for his lackluster kicking abilities.
Kathryn Riley/Getty Photographs; Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Photographs Taylor Swift has discovered one other fan in boyfriend Travis Kelce’s older brother, Jason Kelce. “I’ve been lucky to satisfy Taylor now, she’s superior, down-to-earth, real individual,” Jason, 36, instructed NFL Community’s Cameron Wolfe on the 2024 Professional Bowl on Sunday, February 4. Jason famous that Swift’s persona is refreshing […]
“I’ve obtained an entire new respect,” he stated. “I suck at kicking, OK!”
Kelce beforehand went after the NFL place on “New Heights” final month.
“Kickers are making 60-yarders prefer it’s routine,” he instructed Travis on the October 11 episode. “We have to slim these subject goalposts. It’s too straightforward to kick subject targets proper now. We obtained to go to rugby goalposts.”
Kelce added, “Kickers shouldn’t be influencing soccer video games as a lot as they’re proper now. We have to make kickers manner much less invaluable. This isn’t what soccer is about. … Simply throw the ball by the uprights! Why do we’ve got to have this man come out right here and kick it that doesn’t belong on the soccer subject?”
In line with Kelce, he didn’t need the athletes hitting the sphere in “soccer footwear.”
“And you’ll’t contact them,” Kelce lamented. “We’re making believing, like, it is a soccer play.”
Kelce did give a shout-out to his former Philadelphia Eagles teammate Jake Elliott.
“He’s an amazing kicker, I simply disagree with every little thing about it,” Kelce famous.