{"id":177800,"date":"2025-07-03T08:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T08:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/177800\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T08:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T08:45:14","slug":"travis-kelce-open-to-calling-nfl-games-in-post-playing-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/177800\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Kelce open to calling NFL games in post-playing career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travis Kelce says he wants to call an NFL game one day.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve speculated on his sports media future<\/a> before, and given that his brother Jason is already a fixture on Monday Night Countdown, Travis won\u2019t be lacking in opportunities, if that\u2019s the path he chooses. He could just as easily pivot to Hollywood or the WWE. But wherever he lands, don\u2019t expect him to be rattling off ad reads anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Reading, as it turns out, isn\u2019t exactly his strong suit.<\/p>\n

Kelce knows how to entertain. He can act, he can improvise, he can command a stage. But reading? Please, for the love of God, don\u2019t ask him to do that. On a recent appearance on Bussin\u2019 With the Boys, the FanDuel-sponsored podcast hosted by Taylor Lewan and Will Compton, Kelce admitted that hosting Saturday Night Live<\/a> was a serious challenge, not because of the spotlight or pressure, but because of the table reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe table reading, for a guy that can\u2019t really read that well, it was kind of a f*cked situation,\u201d he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And if that\u2019s how he felt about SNL, how would he handle live commentary in the booth?<\/p>\n

Lewan joked that he probably saw Tom Brady\u2019s 10-year, $375 million broadcasting deal, and Kelce didn\u2019t deny it. \u201cEveryone saw it,\u201d he laughed. But if he\u2019s going to be under the same kind of weekly scrutiny Brady faces, it better be for what he called \u201ca f*ck ton of money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to see what calling a game feels like,\u201d Kelce said. \u201cYeah, I want to see getting in the booth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\ufeff<\/p>\n

He\u2019s always mimicked broadcasters growing up and thinks it would be fun. But ask him to do a table read or dive into improv again? He\u2019s not exactly sprinting toward it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always feel like [I] impersonated guys that call the games and stuff like that growing up,\u201d Kelce continued. \u201cI don\u2019t know, I thought it would always be fun. Just jump in there.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s signing up for anything scripted. Kelce made it clear he has little interest in improv or another round of table reads. The SNL experience was enough of a challenge, and while he\u2019s open to trying live commentary, reading from a teleprompter, or impersonating one of the many broadcasters of his youth might not be in his wheelhouse.<\/p>\n

Even the basics of calling a game \u2014 like pronouncing names correctly \u2014 might be a stretch.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlayer names is where I would get f*cking ruined,\u201d Kelce said.<\/p>\n

Well, Chris Russo has made a 40-plus-year radio career out of butchering names.<\/a> So if Kelce is afraid of reading names wrong, he\u2019s in good company, and probably overthinking it. The truth is, no one\u2019s hiring Travis Kelce to be Cris Collinsworth. They would be hiring him to be Travis Kelce.<\/p>\n

And in today\u2019s sports media landscape, that might be worth a f*ck ton of money all by itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travis Kelce says he wants to call an NFL game one day. We\u2019ve speculated on his sports media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6314,7,6,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-177800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-bussin-with-the-boys","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-travis-kelce"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114788429838782244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177800","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=177800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}