Travis Kelce was very entertained watching his brother, Jason Kelce, dance prior to the Atlanta Falcons-Philadelphia Eagles game on “Monday Night Football” on Sept. 16.
“We also got to look at some new moves. Jason, showing off some moves. One move is actually new to me. I’ve only seen you hit one of these two moves before. That is 100% a new move. I haven’t seen that one yet,” Travis Kelce said on the Sept. 18 episode of their “New Heights” podcast while discussing the running man dance his brother did on a stage before he appeared on ESPN’s “Monday Night Countdown.”
“It wasn’t my best running man. I’ve been better at running man,” Jason Kelce said, while Travis Kelce laughed.
“That’s what I’m saying. These knees and this kind of bounce doesn’t work unless you have like, 10 beers, dude,’” Travis said.
Jason Kelce then gave some backstory on why felt the need to bust a move.
“What happened is, we were supposed to be on that stage to start ‘Countdown,’ and I walked over there way too early,” he said. “I had to kill 30 minutes before the show started and I’m just up there with these DJs, just standing there like, ‘I got to do something. I can’t just stand here, like a jabroni. I got to bring the energy.’”
“I don’t even know what I’m doing,” he added.
“You have the greatest running man of all time, dude,” Travis Kelce joked.
“I keep watching it. I keep crying laughing, man. I was so proud. I was so proud. Everyone thinks I’m the dancer. Dude, you are the f——- most electric dancer I’ve ever met in my life. You can put a smile on anybody’s face by dancing. It is so good. And when you get in that mode where you go full send, oh my gosh,” he added.
His brother said he’s been taken aback by the reaction and the teasing he’s been subjected to.
“Do you know how devastating it is to open X and just see a bunch of people quoting tweets of you dancing and putting clown emojis above you?” he said.
“Just countless people quoting a picture of you dancing and saying, ‘This is a full grown adult male with kids, and he’s doing this in public,’” he continued. “You know what? I mean, you got a good point. It’s ridiculous. I don’t know that I got a rebuttal for that.”
ESPN previously shared a clip of a green tracksuit-wearing Jason Kelce showing off his high-energy dance moves on a stage. Swaying left to right, doing the running man, high-knee moves and fist pumping, the former NFL star was having the time of his life as EDM played over the speakers.
“Jason Kelce is BACK in Philly,” the sports network captioned the video.
Patrick Mahomes retweeted the video, adding a slew of laughing-crying emoji and writing, “go crazy then!! @JasonKelce.”
The Barstool Philly account also wrote, “This is Jason Kelce‘s world. We’re just lucky enough to be living in it.”
Another fan of Jason Kelce’s moves wrote: “Jason Kelce just having the time of his life and I’m here for it!”
Another video of Jason Kelce kicking off “Monday Night Football” showed him pumping up the crowd onstage.
“Jason Kelce’s intro to Monday Night Countdown was insane,” tweeted @PhillyFanLife. “The best intro ever to a sports television program.”
In a follow-up video, which saw Jason Kelce making his way to the NFL analyst table for “Monday Night Countdown.”
“I don’t know if I have any more energy, guys,” Jason Kelce said as he sat down.
Later, when he was asked about his velour tracksuit look, Jason Kelce revealed he’d been a little warm during his antics onstage.
“I was a little sweaty when I was up on that stage, I’m not gonna lie,” he laughed. “Not the most breathable material.”
The former football star made his big debut on the ESPN pregame show “Monday Night Football,” on Sept. 9. Brother Travis Kelce even poked fun at him when it was revealed that Jason Kelce forgot his travel bag in the trunk of his car and had to go to the mall to buy a shirt.
Jason Kelce, meanwhile, is known to get the crowd pumped. He hyped himself up so much that he even took off his shirt — and got the Kansas City Chiefs fans riled up — after brother Travis Kelce’s touchdown against the Buffalo Bills during a playoff game.
“NO. 1 HYPE MAN,” the official X account for the Chiefs posted along with the video.
Most recently, he also cheered on Taylor Swift after the MTV Video Music Awards. Jason Kelce was asked about the pop star’s multiple VMA wins on the “94WIP Morning Show” Sept. 12, and he said she was “so talented it’s ridiculous.”
“Not only as a singer, a songwriter — production-wise, she’s so involved in every facet of it,” he continued, naming her among the “big names in music,” which included Bruce Springsteen.
“What’s so impressive about her is that it’s so self-controlled. She’s so involved in all of it,” he said. “I think that a lot of these guys, again, they were great artists and that’s what the profession is. But when you can be the great artist as well as the great business manager as well as the great producer, when you wear all of those hats, it’s just remarkable to me that she can do all of that.”
