The star tight end was captured on camera screaming at his coach during the second quarter of the Super Bowl. “I was just telling him how much I love him,” Kelce joked after the game.
The Kansas City Chiefs edged the San Francisco 49ers, 25-22, in overtime to win Super Bowl 58 in a game filled with drama from start to finish. One of the most surprising moments came when Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce got in the face of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid in the second quarter.
The team’s offense had been unable to get into any kind of rhythm when a frustrated Kelce was spotted yelling at and bumping into Reid.
“He caught me off balance. I wasn’t watching. (A) cheap shot. That’s all right,” Reid said while chuckling in the postgame press conference.
“He was really coming over just to go, ‘Just put me in, I’ll score. I’ll score.’ You know, so that’s really what it was. But I love that. I mean, it’s not the first time, so, listen, I appreciate him.”
Reid also said he and Kelce share a connection that goes beyond the heated confrontation.
“Then he came over and gave me a hug and said, ‘Sorry about that,’” he told ESPN after the game. “But you know what? He just wants to be on the field and he wants to play. And, so, there’s nobody I get better than I get him. He’s a competitive kid. You know, he loves to play and he makes me feel young.”
Kelce was a non-factor in the game’s first half as the 49ers jumped out to a 10-3 halftime lead, with a defense that stifled the Chiefs.
He wound up getting involved in the passing game, though, finishing with a team-leading nine catches for 93 yards, helping to propel the team to victory and celebrating with girlfriend Taylor Swift, who raced to the game from her “Eras Tour” in Tokyo.
After the game, Kelce didn’t want to make too much of what happened with Reid.
“I’m going to keep it between us unless my mic’d up tells the world, but I was just telling him how much I love him,” Kelce joked with ESPN after the game.
