Travis Kelce takes over podium during Kansas City Chiefs' White House visit
As the Kansas City Chiefs visited President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday, Travis Kelce finally got his chance to take the podium. Remember, during last year’s visit, Patrick Mahomes wouldn’t let him speak when the team headed to Washington, D.C.
But on Friday, when the president called him up to the podium while celebrating the team’s Super Bowl victory, Kelce had jokes.
Biden said he was going to bring Kelce up to the microphone, although he “didn’t know what he was gonna say” when he got there. Apparently, the Pro Bowl tight end got a stern warning from the Secret Service, so it was a brief visit to the podium.
“My fellow Americans, it’s nice to see you all yet again,” Kelce said. “I’m not gonna lie, President Biden, they told me if I came up here, I’d get tased. I’m going back to my spot.”
Friday was the second straight White House visit for Travis Kelce and the Chiefs after pulling off back-to-back Super Bowl titles, and they’ll look to become the first team in NFL history to pull off a three-peat this season. Kansas City addressed arguably its biggest question mark this year by bringing in some wide receiver help, headlined by Marquise “Hollywood” Brown and rookie Xavier Worthy out of Texas.
As for whether the Chiefs will be able to pull off such a feat, Tom Brady noted it won’t be easy by any stretch.
“All these teams in the NFL are very competitive,” said Brady, who’s preparing for his first season as a color analyst on FOX. “They’re all well-coached. The margin of error is razor-thin. So to win one Super Bowl is extremely difficult – to win two back-to-back with the Chiefs as done as we know in the history of the sport nearly impossible. To win three in a row, there’s a reason why no one’s done it.
“… To put three of those together in back-to-back-to-back seasons with drafting last, a very hard schedule, all the turnover in free agency, guys continuing to be motivated, it’s a big challenge and that’s nothing to say that the Chiefs couldn’t accomplish that. Beleive me, everybody would probably put them as the odds-on favorite to do. But even that there’s not a 50 percent chance of that happening, there’s way less than that. Those players are going to have to show up every day. They’re going to have to put the work in like they have.”