Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce brought their brotherly bond (and football prowess) to the annual Big Slick KC charity event.
Travis, 35, and his Kansas City Chiefs teammate Patrick Mahomes appeared in a star-studded skit at the local T-Mobile Center on Saturday, May 31, in which Jason, 37, delivered a surprise cameo to roaring applause. (The event raises funds for KC’s local children’s hospital.)
“Patrick, which one of us would you like to hike the ball?” Saturday Night Live star Heidi Gardner, a Kansas City native, asked the Chiefs quarterback, 29, per social media footage.
Immediately, Chiefs tight end Travis, 35, threw his hat in the ring — but so did Gardner, 41, and fellow celebrity fans Jason Sudeikis, Paul Rudd, Eric Stonestreet and Rob Riggle. Before the quarterback had a chance to respond, Jason came strutting onto the stage with a football in one hand and a can of his Garage Beer in the other to do the honors.
Both Kelce brothers had the chance to throw and catch passes during the event, which were some of Jason’s first public plays since he retired from the NFL in March 2024 after 13 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Jason and Travis have also found that they have more time to connect during the league’s offseason.
“I don’t know that [our relationship] changes,” Jason exclusively told Us Weekly at the Amazon upfronts last month. “I think we have more time to do things outside of football [than we do] in football season.”
He continued, “We’re both so focused on the season that’s happening, whether it’s the Eagles [and] Chiefs or the NFL landscape for the podcast. Once we’re done with the football season, then we can kind of just refocus back on family and do some of the things that we get enjoyment [from] outside of the game.”
Jason and Travis, who cohost their weekly “New Heights” podcast, usually live far away from one another. While Travis is based in Kansas City, where he plays for the Chiefs, Jason lives in Philadelphia with wife Kylie Kelce and their four daughters. (Jason and Kylie, 33, share Wyatt, 5, Ellie, 4, Bennett, 2, and Finnley, who was born in March.)
“I mean, now I’m more experienced,” Jason quipped to Us about welcoming another baby girl. “Travis and I didn’t have any sisters. We had no first cousins growing up, so I was not around a lot of young girls. So it’s been new for me, but now it’s pretty standard.”
While all four Kelce girls are “so young,” Jason is looking forward to every milestone down the line.
“I just can’t wait to watch ’em grow up together,” he told Us. “Wyatt is now starting to get older, get into sports [and be] more active, more out and about. So, [I’m] definitely looking forward to the summer, getting her in summer camps and starting to really embrace that next phase of growing up.”
Jason and Kylie even recently hosted Travis in Philly, where he and girlfriend Taylor Swift joined their family’s Mother’s Day celebration in May.
