In the traditional final game of the American football NFL league, the Super Bowl, the two undisputed best teams of this season meet on the night before Monday.
The Kansas City Chiefs won their AFC conference with a regular season record of 14 wins, 3 losses. The Philadelphia Eagles won the NFC conference by the same margin.
It will be the 14th time that the regular season winners of their conferences will meet in the Super Bowl. What is historic about the final game is that this year’s Super Bowl is the first in which the brothers play against each other.
Jason and Travis Kelce have been the elite of their gaming venues in the world for years. They also play a key role in their teams in the most followed sports event of the beginning of the year.
The brothers, who are over 30 years old, grew from competitive boys from Ohio into winners, one of whom may have his career ended in the final game played in Arizona.
Lively brothers
Travis, 33, an inside linebacker for Kansas, and Jason, 35, a center for Philadelphia, did not regularly exchange news with each other before this NFL season. However, last autumn before the start of the season, they decided to start their own podcast and things changed.
The weekly program has received a lot of attention before the Super Bowl. For example, the program became one of the most listened-to podcasts in the United States on Spotify.
The brothers’ parents visited the podcast to share their experiences of the family’s trip. Mother of boys Donna Kelce still remembers how the lively boys played as children even inside.
He wondered in an interview how the boys never broke the family TV while throwing a lacrosse ball in the family house.
– Television was the thing we cared about the most at the time. We couldn’t break it, Jason, barely two years older than his brother, answered his mother with a smile.
Athletic boys played many sports as children. Father of the brothers Ed Kelce did not give mercy to his children in yard games.
The father has said that the boys realized when Travis was about five years old that by passing the game they could beat their father.
– It was a special moment for me when they understood what team games are all about, father Kelce said In an article on The Athletic sports website (you are moving to another service).
According to Travis, the boys’ mutual games and fights always ended with Jason winning. In the Super Bowl, the little brother’s goal is clear.
– I remember my brother always winning. I definitely want to change that, Travis said to the media (you will switch to another service).
A classic big brother-little brother arrangement
The paths of Jason, who played the saxophone when he was young, and Travis, who did well in hockey, led him to college in Cincinnati. There, brothers with different personalities in many ways could play together.
Jason has been described as the calmer of the brothers, while Travis has been described as a more lively child of nature.
– Jason is more self-reflective. He is a thinker. Travis, on the other hand, is a jerk. He’s been waiting for the chance to make you laugh, having shaved his brothers’ hair for years since childhood Alex Quintana told the sports site ESPN (you are going to another service).
Coaching Travis now at Kansas Andy Reid has coached both brothers in the NFL. While coaching Philadelphia, he was signing Jason at the 2011 NFL Draft. After getting fired from Philadelphia and moving to the Kansas helm, Reid wanted to book Travis to Kansas.
– I watched him play in college and thought he had a chance to be something special, the coach legend remembered (you switch to another service) his first impressions of his younger brother.
According to Reid, both brothers are very competitive and caring people.
– I believe that Jason came to the league more mature. Travis was more immature, but he has grown a lot, Reid analyzed the brothers.
Brothers on their way to the Hall of Fame
Only the brothers who played in the NFL in their current clubs have excelled in their places of play since the last decade. Jason won the Super Bowl with the Eagles at the end of the 2017 season. Travis would go on to win the title with Kansas a couple of years later.
Jason, who has been one of the leaders of the Eagles’ offensive line for a decade, has been selected as an All-Pro All-Star five times in the last six seasons. Again, in the upcoming matchup, he will try with his line to get the quarterback Jalen Hurts space and time to build the Eagles offense.
The career of the 193-centimeter and 133-kilogram gentle giant may end when the brothers meet. He has a contract only for this season, and there has been talk in the public about the continuation of the club icon’s career. At least in public, the konkar, who has been playing for 13 seasons, has not made a decision.
– I think I know when it’s time to stop. That’s when I don’t want to play anymore. Winning the next Super Bowl doesn’t determine if I want to continue or not, Jason Kelce told The Athletic (You’re moving to another service).
On the opposite side, little brother Travis plays a key role as his trusted friend by Patrick Mahomes with. Kansas quarterback Mahomes is perhaps the biggest superstar in the franchise, and Travis has been the target of throws since Mahomes’ debut season.
The two have an extraordinary connection on the field. In 78 games played together, they have scored 48 touchdowns and gained more than 6,300 receiving yards.
– We enjoy our time on the court as much as we do off the court, Kelce described the relationship between the two after the conference semifinals.
Travis Kelce has been considered the best inside linebacker in the league for years. He holds several playoff records for his position.
There are 1467 receiving yards, or a good 86 yards per game. 15 touchdowns have been scored in 17 games. A legend of the sport Rob Gronkowski needed 22 matches in his career to do the same.
– He is one of the best, if not the best inside winger of all time. He’s made my career so much better and in the playoffs his game will get even better, Mahomes praised his friend after the same playoff.
Ed Kelce, the brothers’ father, told The Athletic that Jason advised Travis with his own experience before the Super Bowl, which ended with the little brother’s party, in February 2020. Now the brothers have emphasized that they want to win regardless of brotherly love.
The boys from Ohio, who already twisted in the family living room as children, will perhaps be able to compete at the brightest peak of the Yankee football world for the last time. Finally, the “Kelce Bowl” leaves both brothers in the history books, although only one gets the coveted Vince Lombardi Trophy.