Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce are feeling very high school.
When Jason asked Travis if he favored Disney cartoons or Disney Channel Original Movies back in the day, the brothers tapped into their inner children.
“What was better,” the retired Philadelphia Eagle player wondered during the June 12 episode of their New Heights podcast. “The Disney cartoons or the Disney films? Like Brink and Johnny Tsunami?
Travis, 34, chose the movies without hesitation, telling his co-host, “Dude, those were so good.”
“I really liked Brink,” Jason said. “Brink was so good.”
Jason’s enthusiasm for the 1998 television film, which followed Erik von Detten’s Andy “Brink” Brinker and his rollerblading team as they competed for prize money to help Andy’s family, was quickly matched by the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, who joked, “We were big time rollerbladers in the Kelce household.”
As the brothers discussed their other favourite films that broadcast on the station, Jason pulled up a list that he was less than happy with, especially because they had ranked their beloved Johnny Tsunami at number 11.
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“I just saw what they put ahead of Johnny Tsunami,” the 36-year-old admitted, “and they are missing the mark.”
Nonetheless, the rating prompted a journey down memory lane for childhood favourites such as Smarthouse, Alley Cats Strike, and Luck of the Irish. Jason even said that he would prefer 1998’s Halloweentown over the annual Halloween classic Hocus Pocus.
“I kinda like [Halloweentown] low-key more than Hocus Pocus, even though Hocus Pocus—much better acting,” he said. “It was a better movie, but that one felt more connected to our childhood.
Finally, the NFL stars remained loyal to their number one, with Jason stating, “I’m sticking with Brink.”
“I’m with you,” Travis agreed. “I believe Brink was one of my favourites. “For sure.”
Continue reading to learn more fun facts about Travis, including his post-NFL aspirations.
Nothing beats Travis Kelce’s humorous yet protective friendship with his older brother, Philadelphia Eagles centre Jason Kelce. Mom Donna Kelce and dad Ed Kelce have been divorced for a long time, but the family remains tight, and the parents “divide and conquer,” Ed told the Los Angeles Times, so at least one of them attends each of their boys’ games.
Travis is also the “perfect uncle,” according to Jason, who has three daughters: Wyatt, Elliotte, and Bennett with his wife Kylie Kelce.
“My girls, they’re so pulled to him immediately—partly because he’s stunning,” Jason told E! News at the premiere of the Prime Video documentary Kelce, “but also because he’s just a pleasant human being. He is exciting. He’s had energy for days.”
Travis’ eldest niece may still require persuaded. In a cute video Jason uploaded, Wyatt sternly warns her uncle that he is not permitted to have pink hair because, she says passionately, “You’re naughty and sneaky!” Sigh, but Travis may be able to win Bennett over, since Kelce captured the moment he first held her.
Travis has recalled two “humbling” occurrences in his past that taught him there were more important things than having a good time.
Travis, who grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was kicked off his high school football team for failing French, so he missed Jason’s final year. And “even more embarrassing, when it means more,” Travis remembered on the Jan. 10 episode of The Pivot podcast, the same thing happened at the University of Cincinnati, where he was suspended for the whole 2010 season after testing positive for marijuana.
He felt he had shamed not only his family, but the entire community that had backed him, he explained. So when it came time to work his way back onto the team (and switch from quarterback to tight end), “I had parameters I had to go through,” he said, “and it instilled routine and structure in my life that I hadn’t taken seriously up until that point. Once I discovered that habit, I started using it in other aspects of my life.”
Travis returned triumphantly for the Bearcats and was named Tight End of the Year by the College Football Performance Awards following the 2012 season. Despite expectations that he would be a high choice in the 2013 NFL Draft, he was not selected until the third round.
Jason ultimately put in a good word with incoming Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid, who had previously worked with the elder Kelce brother on the Eagles and was ready to take a chance on Travis’ reputation.
Knowing his sibling, who also let him move in when he lost his scholarship, vouched for him in college and the NFL, Travis told Vanity Fair this year, “I’m forever in debt to this guy for putting his name, our name and his honour on the line to get me another chance.” I truly believe that I owe everything to him.
Though they can now laugh about it, Travis joked in his SNL monologue, “Just goes to show you, if you’re bad at school and smoke weed, you can win the Super Bowl twice.”