Cameras caught an interesting moment on the sideline early in Super Bowl LVIII – Travis Kelce appeared to bump Andy Reid hard and get in his face!
It was such a thing that Eagles receiver AJ Brown Tweeted ‘if that were me, I’d get kicked out of the league,’ but what did another actual NFL player, our own BMitch, think of it?
“I would just normally let it slide with like coaches and players get into stuff, and when I get a chance to have a conversation with him, I don't know where and his mind is,” BMitch said. “I think it looked like he was going up to try to grab his arm and he kind of bumped him real hard and he stumbled, but people gonna make what they want of it. But I’ve seen worse than that.”
“I think it's an embarrassing moment for Kelce – I imagine postgame, he kind of owned up to that,” JP replied. “I do think that these sorts of things happen when the pressure gets amped up, and Kelce and Mahomes play at a really high emotion level, and obviously, he lost his cool.”
Maybe, but is too much being made of it?
“If you watch him, he’s trying to hold his arm, not trying to knock him down; h’s aggressive with it, and I'm not making any excuses for him, but you can see where he was upset at something, and Andy went right away from it,” BMitch said.
And then, it was rant time.
“I've listened to a lot of people this morning talking about it, and I'm just going to say this: I did not know so many people had no emotion in their lives,” Brian said. “I thought it's a bad situation the way it looks, but I would love to hear both of those guys have a conversation about it today, instead of listening to all these damn pundits.”
Reid himself downplayed it a bit in his postgame comments, saying Kelce wanted to get in the game to score, and even if he didn’t mean it, he went to bat for his player.
“What I’ve heard from a lot of people is Andy Reid lets people be who they are, and with a guy like Kelce who is immensely talented, you have to take the good with the bad,” JP said.
“People will say Reid wasn’t saying what he really feels, but I could care less what people think, because they just won the Super Bowl,” Brian replied. “Football is an emotional game, and the people that want to always police it are those that don't have the same emotions for the most part. When I'm looking at it, I'm watching him come over like, coach put me in, and he grabbed him a little bit and Andy was off-balance. He was pissed, but that happens in sports. No one plays this game just totally under control, and if you do, you're probably not that damn good. I think it looks a lot worse than what it is.”
Take a listen to their entire discussion on the situation above, including a remembrance of a very similar thing happening here in DC three decades ago!