Jason Kelce had a enjoyable time celebrating brother Travis’ Tremendous Bowl LVIII victory in a Kansas Metropolis Chiefs luchador masks — however now he is doing the proper factor and returning the masks to its rightful proprietor.
On the Tremendous Bowl after-parties on Sunday, Jason was noticed partying arduous within the masks — alongside along with his purple and yellow checkered Chiefs overalls and a “Big Yeti” shirt in honor of brother Travis — and he opened up about how he got here throughout the epic accent on his and Travis’ New Heights podcast this week.
“Found the mask on the dance floor at the first after-party spot,” Jason recalled. “I picked it up and right away I was like, ‘Oh. Hell. Yes.'”
“Sorry to whoever I stole that from,” he continued. “That’s part of the beauty of this whole thing. It appeared out of nowhere… You see a luchador mask, you don’t ask questions. You just put that thing on, baby.”
Nevertheless, as footage of Jason within the masks circulated this week, Elijah Smith, a Texas eighth grader and main Chiefs fan, realized it was his. In response to Elijah, he and Jason really met on the Tremendous Bowl get together and even snapped a pic with Jason within the masks earlier than the Philadelphia Eagles heart ended up partying the remainder of the evening, nonetheless in possession of the masks.
In an interview with Dallas’ NBC affiliate, Elijah shared his recollection of occasions.
“I gave him my mask and then he dropped it and then picked it back up,” he remembered. “Then I obtained an image with him carrying it after which I simply frolicked subsequent to them for 5 to 10 minutes, they have been dancing and all the things.”
He said he lost track of Jason in the confusion of the party, and realized later that the NFL star had been wearing the mask all night.
Now, Elijah and his parents have said they’d like the mask back. For one, it has an autograph from Chiefs player Trent McDuffie on one side. And it’s also been a bit of a good luck charm as the Chiefs have won back-to-back Super Bowls.
“Final 12 months once I wore it in Arizona, I really feel like each single time I put it on we’d rating a landing,” the student recalled. “It might be fairly cool if he autographed it and despatched it again.”
For his part, Jason has seen the interview and on Friday, he took to X (formerly Twitter) to promise that Elijah would get his mask back soon.
“Operation ‘Get Elijah His Masks Again’ is underway!” he wrote. “I recognize everybody bringing this to my consideration, and look ahead to uniting Elijah along with his masks as soon as once more. Your masks certainly brings nice fortune, I owe you large time, sorry it was commandeered.”
On the New Heights episode, Jason also opened up about another surreal moment from the Super Bowl — when Travis’ girlfriend, Taylor Swift, introduced him to rapper Ice Spice.
“I used to be launched to her as Ice,” Jason shared. “She was very good.”
And that’s not the only headline-making musician that Jason bumped elbows with at the big game.
“I am watching the sport, sitting with Miles Teller, watching the sport, speaking soccer, and all the sudden I hear Taylor behind me like, ‘Jason, flip round!’ And Paul McCartney is standing proper there,” he recalled. “I am like, ‘What the heck is that this?! There’s royalty within the workplace?!’ Oh my gosh.”
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