Travis Kelce and Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid are seemingly placing their heated sideline second behind them after the crew’s Super Bowl victory.
After profitable the Sunday, February 11, sport towards the San Francisco 49ers, each Kelce, 34, and Reid, 65, have been each requested concerning the now-viral confrontation, with Kelce hinting that he needed to maintain the small print beneath wraps.
“Oh, you guys saw that?” he joked throughout a postgame interview. “I’m gonna keep it between us unless my mic’d up tells the world, but I was just telling him how much I love him.”
Reid gave an equally lighthearted reply whereas chatting with CBS panelists after the sport. “He keeps me young,” the coach mentioned of Kelce. “He caught me off balance. Normally I’d give him a little bit [back], but I didn’t have [my] feet under me.”
The incident occurred when Kelce was briefly taken off the sector within the second quarter of Sunday’s sport. Chiefs operating again Isiah Pacheco misplaced a fumble within the purple zone, prompting Kelce to stumble upon Reid on the sideline, who stumbled backward as Kelce shouted in his face.
Reid shed extra gentle on what was mentioned, acknowledging that Kelce’s ardour for the sport is certainly one of his strongest attributes. “He was really coming over [and saying], ‘Just put me in, I’ll score. I’ll score.’ So, that’s really what it was,” he defined after the crew’s victory, per ESPN. “I love that. It’s not the first time. I appreciate him.”
Despite the chatter on social media — Kelce’s outburst was extremely debated all through the rest of the Super Bowl — Reid asserted that the athlete’s conduct wasn’t “selfish.”
“The part I love is he loves to play the game and he wants to help his team win. … As much as he bumps into me, I get after him and we understand that. He just caught me off balance,” he continued.
Kelce sang his coach’s praises in a postgame press convention of his personal, noting that his feelings obtained the very best of him within the tense second. “I didn’t care about my catches. … I wanted the score to be different,” he mentioned. “Coach has asked us to speak our minds and I just wanted to let him know how much passion I had for this team.”
He went on to name Reid “one of the best leaders” he’s labored with, including, “He’s helped me a lot … with channeling that emotion, with channeling that passion. I owe my entire career to that guy and being able to kind of control how emotional I get and just love him.”
The Chiefs turned the primary crew in NFL historical past to win back-to-back Super Bowls following their 2023 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. They are solely the fourth franchise to win three Super Bowl video games in 5 seasons. (The Chiefs beforehand got here out on high after they confronted off towards the 49ers within the 2020 Super Bowl.)
Kelce gushed over being a part of “one of the greatest teams of all time” after the milestone victory. “This is a once in a lifetime opportunity that I’ve been able to go through three times now and it gets sweeter and sweeter every time,” the athlete, who celebrated the win with girlfriend Taylor Swift on the sector, advised reporters. “You can call us a dynasty. You can call us whatever you want. I know what we’ve got is something more special than really what you’ve seen in the NFL.”