Travis Kelce Says He Is not Retiring Anytime Quickly

Travis Kelce has a good suggestion about how he’ll realize it’s time to hold his cleats. 

On Wednesday, June 19, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish, 34, and his brother, newly retired Philadelphia Eagles star Jason Kelce, mentioned the “R phrase” on their New Heights podcast. 

The subject got here up with a point out of Travis’ teammate, defensive deal with and “buddy of the present,” Chris Jones.

After profitable the Tremendous Bowl in February, which helped to safe his contract, Jason, 36, mentioned Jones, 29, was requested about retirement. 

“He was additionally requested about retirement, and he mentioned, ‘As soon as you start fascinated with issues like that, you get in to feed the thoughts, these kinds of ideas.’ He mentioned, ‘I do not even wanna take my thoughts to go that far to the R phrase. We have got extra years,’ ” Jason mentioned. 

Pondering on Jones’ quotes, Jason quipped, “I do not know although. Travis is fairly f—– previous.”

Travis mentioned the thought doesn’t cross his thoughts except he’s requested about it, however his newly retired massive brother insisted that “you concentrate on it generally throughout actually onerous occasions of your physique.”

Nonetheless, the 34-year-old assured his sibling that he’s not contemplating leaving his professional soccer profession simply but. 

“It is a thought that is like, I like taking part in this sport on the highest degree potential. And I like taking part in at it at a degree the place I do know I can have a bunch of success. I do know I can nonetheless go on the market and mow down dudes in the long run zone. I do know I can go on the market and catch a flat route and switch it right into a 15-, 20-yard sport and make a number of guys miss,” Travis mentioned. 

“The second that I can not try this, I believe that is once I’m simply gonna be like, ‘Alright. What am I doing this for?’ ” he defined. 

The NFL expertise shared that he nonetheless will get a rush out of the game.

“I get pleasure out of catching a ball, splitting a bunch of defenders, and getting an enormous first down when no person anticipated me to do it. You realize? Or I scored an enormous landing in a playoff sport, within the This fall when the workforce wanted it probably the most.”

In the meantime, Jason confessed that he determined to step away from the soccer discipline as a result of he felt he couldn’t “execute [plays] the best way I wished to.”

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Elsewhere of their dialog, the brothers addressed the Chiefs Tremendous Bowl LVIII championship ring typo after the workforce was gifted the jewellery at a June 13 ring ceremony on the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Artwork in Kansas Metropolis.

“I believe it makes it extra distinctive. Like, ‘Oh, yeah, we made it actually detailed, and, oops, we screwed up,'” Travis advised his brother, including that it “makes it extra unique.”