Jason Kelce’s skills as an NFL center apparently do not translate to those of a kicker.
Kelce, 36, made a guest appearance on ESPN’s College Game Day on Saturday, November 2, where he was challenged to kick a field goal on behalf of hurricane relief funds.
“New Heights!” Kelce bellowed as he attempted the goal, a nod to his and brother Travis’ podcast of the same name.
The kick, however, failed to land in between the goalposts. Cohost Pat McAfee then offered Kelce a second chance to earn big bucks for the worthy cause.
“Remember what you say about kickers?” McAfee, 37, reminded Kelce of previous podcast comments he made recently, which disparaged the football position as unimportant. The sports broadcaster then told Kelce that he had it on “good authority” that $200,000 would be donated to relief funds if he made the goal.
“No pressure. For the people!” McAfee teased.
Despite the crowd hyping him up, Kelce, unfortunately, missed the goal again.
Think @JasonKelce has some new admiration for kickers 😅@PatMcAfeeShow | @newheightshow pic.twitter.com/pOzYWHcVG2
— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) November 2, 2024
“This guy sucks,” McAfee joked, before adding, “Jason, you didn’t let everybody down.”
Ahead of Kelce’s two kicks, McAfee couldn’t resist asking if he would be attending “your future sister-in-law’s concert tomorrow night.” (Travis, 35, is dating pop star Taylor Swift, who is in the midst of a three-night residency in Indianapolis on her Eras Tour throughout the weekend.)
“Feeling 22, brother,” McAfee added, referring to Swift’s song of the same name.
Kelce, who did not reveal any potential Eras attendance, did accept defeat for his lackluster kicking skills.
“I’ve got a whole new respect,” he said. “I suck at kicking, OK!”
Kelce previously went after the NFL position on “New Heights” last month.
“Kickers are making 60-yarders like it’s routine,” he told Travis on the October 11 episode. “We need to narrow these field goalposts. It’s too easy to kick field goals right now. We got to go to rugby goalposts.”
Kelce added, “Kickers should not be influencing football games as much as they are right now. We need to make kickers way less valuable. This is not what football is about. … Just throw the ball through the uprights! Why do we have to have this guy come out here and kick it that doesn’t belong on the football field?”
According to Kelce, he didn’t want the athletes hitting the field in “soccer shoes.”
“And you can’t touch them,” Kelce lamented. “We’re making believing, like, this is a football play.”
Kelce did give a shout-out to his former Philadelphia Eagles teammate Jake Elliott.
“He’s a great kicker, I just disagree with everything about it,” Kelce noted.
