Travis Kelce Delivers Emotional Apology To Fans For “Tough” Super Bowl 2025 Loss

Typically ebullient brothers Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce kicked off the latest episode of their podcast New Heights on a subdued note, addressing Travis’s Sunday Super Bowl 2025 loss with his team, the Kansas City Chiefs.

“I couldn’t find a lick of momentum,” Travis said during the episode, published Wednesday, of the Philadelphia Eagles trouncing the Chiefs 40-22. “I’m kicking myself for some of the tiny, tiny decisions I made on the field.”

He continued to say that he “wasn’t the best leader that I could be in motivating my guys,” and appeared to assign himself more than a little responsibility for the team’s overall performance “as the guy that’s been in the building for 12 years and seen a lot of football.”

“It’s a tough pill to swallow,” he said. “It’s a hard reality, man. I love my teammates, I love my coaches. Chiefs Kingdom, I’m sorry for how it ended.”

He emphasized how lucky he is to have a support system, including the crowd of 50 or so friends and family who came to New Orleans to watch the game, and were there for him after the difficult loss dashed the team’s hopes of an unprecedented third Super Bowl win in a row.

“I have a beautiful life,” he said. “I have loved ones, I have the most amazing family in the world that supports me in everything that I do. They were all there, cheering me on and hoping for the best on Sunday.”

Among that cheering squad were girlfriend Taylor Swift, mom Donna Kelce, and Jason and his wife Kylie Kelce. (Donald Trump was also in attendance at the game, but was presumably not one of those who comforted Travis post-game.)

Jason, too, got visibly emotional discussing the game during the episode. Jason, who is just shy of two years older than Travis, retired from the NFL after last season, having spent his entire career with the Eagles. Ahead of the game, both he and wife Kylie talked about their conflicting feelings going into the matchup, rooting for both their family and their football family, and knowing that only one of the two could ultimately prevail. (Their three daughters, watching back at home, were set to wear “Go Uncle Trav” shirts.)

When Travis asked how it felt to watch the game, Jason had an immediate, one-word answer: “Terrible.”

“It was very, very hard to watch,” Jason said, a sentiment that he repeated, calling it a “fucked-up emotion” and adding that “It ended up just not being a fun game to be a part of or watch,” and even more difficult than he’d imagined.

“I didn’t know what it was going to feel like going through the game,” he said. “I thought I did.”

“The further the game went on, I just got more and more upset,” he said. “I just don’t know how to articulate that I’m happy for some of the Eagles, but at the same time I was miserable during the game watching you not achieve your success again. That’s the reality of it. I didn’t enjoy any part of that. It fucking sucked.”

Travis comforted his brother, telling him, “I know who Jason Kelce is, and I know my brother and what his intentions are, and nobody can ever fucking confuse that. You can’t let these jamokes online let you think that you’re in the wrong for what you’re saying. I hear it. I hear it, loud and clear.”

Travis, who said he was “compartmentalizing” the loss,” offered some perspective on his brother’s position, and the loss in general, even as retirement speculation swirls.

“You can still be happy and you can still be sad for somebody, and it is what it is,” he said. “It’s fucking football, man, and I know I’m saying it like that because I just lost the fucking game and I’m going to act like it didn’t mean the entire world, but it’s my third in three years. I’ve had so much success playing this game, it still means the world, and it always will, and this one’s gonna fucking hurt…but this game, it’s just. It’s just our jobs.”

“My life is still beautiful,” he said. “I come home to an amazing household of family and friends that absolutely love me, and that’s the beauty of going through a hard time like this, is that I can still have happiness and still have an amazing time in life even when something like this happens, because I got the support that I do.”