Jason’s viral moment came after a day of tailgating with former Bills player Eric Wood and the Bills Mafia fandom.
“Here’s what happened,” he explains. “I wanted to take my shirt off at the tailgate. And because we kinda got pushback on the tailgate front, I didn’t get to have my shirt off there and then when I entered the box, I noticed, ‘Hey, I can jump out of this box and I’ll be outside, and if I take my shirt off. then I’m outside and I’m part of the Buffalo Bills pageantry.'”
He continues, “Dude, it was something about the entire day. I got caught up in the magic of Bills Mafia. It is — it is electric. The energy, the shenanigans. I’m like, ‘I gotta have my shirt off at some point.'”
Travis jokes that the whole situation was “pure pandemonium” but ultimately meaningful.
“Everybody’s saying, ‘Put that thing in the Louvre,'” Travis says of the photo snapped of Jason in the moment. “Honestly, I might get somebody to make that f**king portrait. That is epic and a moment that I’ll never forget man, and I didn’t even see it until afterwards.”
While Jason admits that after a tough end to his own season last week, he was eager to spend some time blowing off steam.
“Listen, we just got done obviously with a very grueling season in Philadelphia, mentally and physically,” he shares. “This was an opportunity to honestly go someplace and forget all of that. Just go have fun and root on your brother. I haven’t had the opportunity to go to a game of yours in like two years now because of the Super Bowl and other circumstances. I was excited to go to Buffalo, one, to cheer you on, but also to experience the legendary Bills Mafia.”
As it turns out, Jason’s plan apparently worked.
“Ah, man, well,” Travis continued. “Tay says she absolutely loved you.”
“She was already telling me to be on my best behavior because we were meeting Taylor,” Jason said on Wednesday’s episode of the siblings’ New Heights podcast. “She was like, ‘Do not. Be on your best behavior.’ I was like, ‘Kylie, when I met you, the first day I met you, I was black-out drunk and fell asleep at the bar.’ This is part of the charm. This is part of the Jason Kelce charm. I want to make my best first impression… This is my best chance.”
