Kelce

Yeah? You ready for bedtime?

Do you wanna hear a story?

Oh, the places you'll go!

Congratulations! Today's your day. You're off to great places. You're off and away.

You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!

There are points to be scored. There are games to be won.

And the magical things you can do with that ball

will make you the winning-est winner of all.

Wherever you fly, you'll be the best of the best.

And wherever you go, you will top all the rest.

Except when you don't. Because sometimes you won't.

You can get all hung up at a prickle-ly perch

and your game will fly on, you'll be left in a lurch.

You'll come down from that lurch with an unpleasant bump,

The chances are, then, that you'll be in slump.

And when you're in a slump, you're not in for much fun.

Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too.

Games you can't win because you'll play against you.

Be your name Buxbaum, Bixby, or Bray

or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea.

- You're off to great places. -

Today is your day. Your mountains are waiting. So get on your way.

94 WIP HD One, Philadelphia Sports Radio 94 WIP.

Good morning, everybody! Welcome to the WIP Morning Show.

We are broadcasting live.

Right here in this seat between me and Al

is the most popular and beloved Philadelphia sports figure,

Mr. Jason Kelce.

Uh, Jason, you have no idea what you mean to this city, man.

You embody this city perfectly. Jason, we love you here in Philadelphia.

Thank you, Josh. I appreciate it.

I got to tell you, the outpouring of love today,

I've been doing this 33 years, Jason, nothing's close, nothing's close.

We're not screening these, are we?

No we're not-- they're in order.

No I, I, I am sitting next to my favorite Eagle

in my lifetime.

I can die happy.

Because you and your teammates,

- won us a Super Bowl. - Yeah, I--

It's the greatest thrill I ever had as a fan ever!

- I, I snapped the ball. -

Nick Foles won that Super Bowl.

Okay, let's, let's start on the parade.

You ever see things after that speech?

- What happens at parades now? - Yeah.

Like you changed the whole--

- You changed parades. -

It changed everything.

If you love the Philadelphia Eagles, let me get a "hell yeah!"

Hell yeah!

I'm gonna take a second to talk to you about underdogs.

- The Mummer outfit, - Yeah.

that had to be something you thought of before you even started it.

- Yeah. - What-- when did that come to you?

I was like, "Man, it's a parade. I got to do it Philadelphia style," you know?

No one wanted us!

No one liked this team!

No analysts liked this team to win the Super Bowl. And nobody likes our fans.

You're a bunch of underdogs.

And you know what "underdogs" is?

It's a hungry dog. Hungry dogs run faster.

For 52 years, you've been starved of this championship.

Everybody wonders why we're so mean.

Everybody wonders why the Philadelphia Eagles aren't the nicest fans.

If I don't eat breakfast, I'm fucking pissed off.

What does it mean to look out and know you changed all of those lives?

Just in that one moment.

I didn't really think about whether it would be well-received,

but at every meaningful part of my life, where I've questioned my own self-worth,

I've had people there to reaffirm me, whether it's my parents,

whether it's my family members or like this whole city. They've been there.

I think the best thing, like a human being can give like another human being is,

is belief.

You know what I got to say to all those people that doubted us?

To all those people that count us out,

and everybody who said we couldn't get it done?

What my man Jay Ajayi just said, "Fuck you!"

I'm really sorry to interrupt.

- You're going to be-- you're going back-- - Hey!

- but Travis Kelce is in the house. - Oh my gosh.

- Jason's brother is in the house here. - Travis Kelce is here.

You won it after Jason did.

I do not mean in any way to insult you. I admire you as a player,

but I don't even know if you gave a speech at the rally.

The funny thing is I'm right there, I don't even know if I gave a speech.

Travis, when you win one, does it make you feel

less pressure to do it again or hungrier to do it again?

I feel like when you win one and the next year you don't win it again,

it's almost like that following year is, you want it more than you ever wanted it.

-Because it's like uh, - Yeah.

you just feel the taste of the mountaintop, man.

Like going into this year, I want this year more than I've ever wanted any year.

And it's just because, you know, you--

You know what it takes. You know you can get there and--

And the Eagles had an awesome offseason, Jason.

- Yeah. - Do you harbor the dream, is it possible?

- It's definitely possible. - Yeah.

I hope you win again so--

'cause I would like to see a sequel to that speech.

- Oh, man. - If you win it, like this year,

that would be a lot-- that would be pressure, wouldn't it?

- It would be a lot of pressure. - Ah, man.

Jason, I can't begin to thank you for, as always, just delivering for this city

and being such a big part of what we do.

But I have to ask it now 'cause you have a 121 consecutive games streak.

- Oh my-- yeah. - Right. This is your 12th season.

- Mm-hmm. - Is it your last?

Set.

Down. Go.

Move your feet. Move your feet. Move your feet.

- Ready! -

There aren't many guys on a NFL roster that are over 30.

As an older player, it just gets harder and harder to to do on a daily basis.

For an offensive lineman, you're hitting every single practice.

Even when you don't have shoulder pads on, you're hitting somebody else.

So I've had at least seven surgeries.

I've torn my MCL, ACL, my knee.

Let's see, left ankle, right hand, two elbows.

I've broken my right foot, toes, and fingers

and everything has at least, a small amount of arthritis.

So, yeah, I mean, this is my 12th year,

and I play a position where I hit my head on every single play.

Physically, I'm in good shape.

For an average person that's 35 years old,

not good shape.

This tries to pump...

the soreness out.

I feel like I'm half cyborg, like I have to plug in.

But yeah, early in my career, I didn't have to do any of this stuff.

I didn't have to warm up before I went out there.

You know, you're just ready to go at all times.

I'm at the point where I can't play football

without, like, heavy anti-inflammatories.

So, I think I know that my time is coming to an end.

There's a good chance this is probably my last season.

Losing seasons suck.

If this is my last year, I don't want it to be bad.

I want to go out with a good season and a good team.

We ended the season before really hot with Nick Sirianni.

We made a lot of great acquisitions this offseason.

They get A.J. Brown, they sign Haason Reddick,

they draft Jordan Davis.

I think we got a really fucking good roster.

I love A.J. Brown, I love DeVonta Smith.

The offensive line has been rebuilt, if they can stay healthy.

But Jalen Hurts struggles with turning the ball over entirely too much.

I do not believe that he's advanced enough at throwing the football.

Jalen Hurts, I mean, being a running quarterback,

you know, he's-- he's dealt with a lot of criticism.

He's called everything like,

"can't throw the ball, too small, system quarterback."

The question that the Eagles have,

"can he take us to the championship?"

I don't believe he can.

But you have to have like the maturity to...

truly understand what you need to improve on

and which criticism you should take and be like, okay,

I can use this to try and get better.

And which criticism you can take and be like,

you know, fuck that guy, he doesn't know what he's talking about.

I think last year, they maybe raised expectations by getting to the playoffs,

uh, maybe a year too soon, in my opinion. I don't think they make it this year.

The beautiful thing about football you know, you can bitch and complain

as much as you want about somebody's opinion of you.

You're gonna end up right in their narrative.

Somebody can write an article about how undersized you are,

how weak you are.

At the end of the day, what we go out there and do

is what they're going to have to fucking write.

Still got the Mummer suit.

You know, hoping to be able to wear that again.

If I was a Super Bowl ring, where would I be?

No. Not there.

This is how I look. I just kind of like, start moving stuff,

and then usually something will just remind me. Oh, okay!

That didn't work right there, but usually that's how it works.

Alright.

He reads the defense very, very well

and calls productions very effectively.

So, he'll go out there and see everything on a football field but,

he cannot find his keys if they're in his pockets.

Probably in a pocket in one of the pants upstairs.

No dice.

This is what it's supposed to be in.

This is the box they give you so that you're not doing this.

It has the confetti from the game, but not the ring.

He won't let me lie about this. We met on Tinder.

Jason, 27.

None of the pictures showed Eagles football,

but my friends and I, we were like, "This guy looks kind of familiar."

And we find on Google images,

him and we're like, "Okay, so it can't be him. It's a catfish."

So when he said,

"Oh, come meet us at this bar," my friend was like,

"It's either going to be him

or it's going to be someone who is pretending to be him.