It was a nightmare Tremendous Bowl for the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, which included the worst statistical Tremendous Bowl of Travis Kelce’s profession.
Kelce, 35, had solely 4 catches for 39 yards within the Chiefs’ 40-22 blowout loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in Tremendous Bowl LIX on Sunday, February 9. The long run Corridor of Famer had by no means caught fewer than six passes in his 4 earlier Tremendous Bowl appearances.
In final yr’s Tremendous Bowl victory over the San Francisco 49ers, Kelce had 9 receptions for 93 yards. When the Chiefs performed the Eagles within the 2023 Tremendous Bowl, Kelce caught six passes for 81 yards and a landing. He had 10 catches for 133 yards towards the Buccaneers in 2021 and 6 catches for 43 yards and one landing towards the 49ers in 2020.
The Tremendous Bowl marked the top of a statistically down yr for Kelce, who had common season profession lows in each receiving yards (823) and touchdowns (3).
Neglect in regards to the officiating, the most important controversy of Tremendous Bowl 2025 was the brand-new Fox scorebug. Fox debuted a brand new bug on the backside of the display screen through the Sunday, February 9, sport between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles, which featured “KC” and “PHI” in large letters towards a stark, empty background. Suffice […]
Kelce’s underwhelming Tremendous Bowl efficiency got here in entrance of his girlfriend, Taylor Swift, who misplaced all six Grammys she was nominated for on Sunday, February 2.
Within the days main as much as Tremendous Bowl LIX, Kelce was requested to reply to critics who claimed he had “misplaced a step.”
“That’s motivation proper there, isn’t it?” Kelce mentioned Thursday, February 6 whereas pounding the rostrum throughout his media availability.
He added, “I’ve been consuming clear, I haven’t been consuming as a lot. Slightly decrease on the kilos this week. So hopefully I can run away from some [Philadelphia] Eagles on the market.”
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After a gradual begin to the season, which noticed Kelce catch solely eight passes for a complete of 69 yards throughout Kansas Metropolis’s first three video games of the season, the Chiefs tight finish defined how he stopped worrying a lot about private backside line.
“I ended caring about stats about 4 or 5 years in the past,” he informed brother Jason Kelce on their “New Heights” podcast in September. “I simply went on the market and began to play free and play for my guys. Positive sufficient, I believe that’s the higher mentality. You consider it extra play by play and what your job is on that particular play.”
Kelce continued, “For no matter motive, these previous two video games it hasn’t gone that method for me. That’s soccer, man. I’m not about to sit down right here and get annoyed about it. I used to get actually, actually pissed off and virtually lose my cool plenty of the time from not having that success figuring out I demand that out of myself. I identical to to play the sport to such a excessive stage of accountability that it’s robust for me to cope with me being mediocre or having stats that signify that.”
