There’s nothing quite like brotherly love — just as the Kelce brothers.
Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce and former Eagles standout center Jason Kelce are two of the most popular siblings in sports. The pair each have impressive careers in the NFL, with the Kansas City member owning three Super Bowl rings while the former Philadelphia star has one.
Because both Kelces played on offense, neither got the chance to go head-to-head against one another on the gridiron. While their teams played against each other numerous times, including Super Bowl LVII where the Chiefs won 38-35, Jason and Travis weren’t getting physical against one another.
That’s not to say the two haven’t had their competitive scraps in the past. Jason detailed a fight the two had that changed their relationship forever — for the good.
Here is more on the childhood fight that resulted in punches flying between the Kelce brothers.
Kelce brothers fight
Jason sat down with former NBA sensation Shaquille O’Neal during a Feb. 19 episode of “The Big Podcast with Shaq.” However, a recent post on X, formerly Twitter, resurfaced the conversation where Kelce got into details about a violent fight he had with his younger brother when they were youngsters.
“We were out in the backyard [playing basketball], and he started doing this stupid little hook shot over his shoulder and he is making it every single time and I can’t do anything to stop him,” Jason said. “So, of course, I resort to fouling him — the only way I know how to stop it. He says, ‘That’s bulls—, that’s a foul.’
“I’m like, ‘I don’t see any refs out here, I don’t see anyone calling it.’ He picks the ball up, throws it at me, goes in the house. So, I go in there, I grab him on the shoulder and I punch him.
“Listen, we would fight all the time. This is only the second time I had ever punched him. I don’t know how it got that heated. I punched him in the face … He took this punch, scooped me up off my feet and slammed me on the kitchen floor so hard that the oven got knocked off what it was sitting on.”
The scuffle in the house got so bad that their father, Ed, had to step in to stop any more fisticuffs from occurring between the pair.
“Dad comes behind me to break it up, grabs me, and Travis pushes me back on top of dad,” Jason said. “The only thing that stopped the fight was my dad screaming, ‘Oww my ribs!’ We thought that we had hurt him so we snapped out of it.”
Since then, the former Eagles star admitted that the two haven’t fought.
“Seeing dad like that, thinking we had hurt him, that was a wake-up call,” Kelce said. “That’s the last time we’ve ever gotten in a fight.”
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