{"id":169919,"date":"2025-06-30T08:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/169919\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T08:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:43:11","slug":"happy-gilmore-star-opens-up-about-kansas-city-chiefs-te-travis-kelces-acting-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/169919\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Gilmore star opens up about Kansas City Chiefs TE Travis Kelce&#8217;s acting performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The highly anticipated sequel to the cult classic hit movie Happy Gilmore will be released on July 25th, exclusively on Netflix. <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> tight end Travis Kelce was confirmed to be making a cameo in the film, and his co-star revealed his assessment of the ten-time Pro Bowler&#8217;s skills during a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Christopher McDonald, known for the role of Shooter McGavin, spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/media\/christopher-mcdonald-on-happy-gilmore-2-travis-kelces-acting-chops\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sports Illustrated;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sports Illustrated<\/a> recently about Kelce&#8217;s appearance in the new film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I have a love-hate relationship with Travis Kelce; his team beats my <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Buffalo Bills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Buffalo Bills<\/a> way too often. And I blame the refs sometimes. You get very into football, which I am. But that&#8217;s a great team,&#8221; said McDonald, &#8220;Travis being the superstar that he is, at the end of the day, he&#8217;s a tremendous guy. I really loved the guy as a person. And, surprisingly, a very good actor. He had too much fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Chiefs notably defeated the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship game earlier this year, adding to their postseason winning streak against Josh Allen and company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kelce had expressed interest in participating in the Happy Gilmore sequel since Sandler&#8217;s appearance on the New Heights podcast last year. Sandler made it official on &#8216;The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon&#8217; with the initial teaser trailer featuring Kelce, released during the Chiefs&#8217; Christmas Day victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh-steelers\/356\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pittsburgh Steelers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> last year on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2025\/06\/29\/happy-gilmore-star-discusses-kansas-city-chiefs-travis-kelces-acting-performance\/84397274007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Happy Gilmore star discusses Chiefs&#039; Travis Kelce&#039;s acting performance;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Happy Gilmore star discusses Chiefs&#8217; Travis Kelce&#8217;s acting performance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The highly anticipated sequel to the cult classic hit movie Happy Gilmore will be released on July 25th,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[53,346,37761,7,37760,37762,118,110,2438,2437,13476,6,57,9166,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-169919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-buffalo-bills","9":"tag-chiefs","10":"tag-christopher-mcdonald","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-happy-gilmore","13":"tag-highly-anticipated","14":"tag-kansas-city","15":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","16":"tag-kansascity","17":"tag-kansascitychiefs","18":"tag-netflix","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","21":"tag-pro-bowler","22":"tag-travis-kelce"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114771434337993017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}