Jason and Travis Kelce put their Super Bowl rivalry aside as an emotional conversation about their mom Donna brought both brothers close to tears(Image via Getty Images)
His Philadelphia Eagles had fallen 38-35 to the Kansas City Chiefs, leaving his younger brother Travis celebrating a Super Bowl victory. 15, 2023, the brothers revisited Super Bowl LVII on their New Heights podcast. Jason Kelce had just lost the biggest game of his season. Their stories revealed a side of the Kelce Bowl that the final score could never capture.
“She was on top of the world for a week,” Jason said. “She was on top of it and she shined the whole time, man,” Travis said on the podcast. “This is a lot of what we were trying to stay away from,” he said. “But my mom absolutely killed it, and she even said she didn’t want to do all of that. “I knew that you were going to feel bad for me and I didn’t want that,” he said.
But Jason’s first instinct after the final whistle was not to walk away from the heartbreak. He went to Travis, hugged him and congratulated him. When the brothers discussed that night days later, their mother Donna became the reason the conversation turned emotional. On Feb. Jason remembered the embrace he shared with Donna after the game, while Travis recalled watching their mother enjoy a week unlike any other. There was also a funny side to their recollection. Travis admitted that the family had not expected the attention to become so overwhelming. That was not a small gesture from someone who had just watched his own championship hopes disappear. Jason still had to deal with the loss, but he refused to make Travis feel guilty about winning.