Kansas City Chiefs tight end, Travis Kelce has a strong message for fans in the Philadelphia area: Don’t dress the Rocky Balboa statue in a Chiefs jersey. The statue has the image of actor Sylvester Stallone as his role in the original “Rocky” movie. The statue has worn several jerseys from opposing teams of the Philadelphia Eagles and it hasn’t worked out well for those opponents so far.
Back in 2018, someone put a Minnesota Vikings jersey on the statue before the NFC championship game which ended in a 38-7 win by Philadelphia as they made their way to a Super Bowl title. This year, a New York Giants jersey and San Francisco 49ers jersey were on the statue prior to their respective games. The Eagles went on to win over the Giants in the divisional round 38-7 and the 49ers, 31-7, in the NFC championship.
With all of that being said, Travis Kelce had a message for fans on his New Heights podcast, “Chiefs [fans], do not touch the f—ing Rocky memorial. Do not do that. Definitely don’t put an 87 on there.”
Meanwhile his brother and opponent Jason Kelce who is also on the podcast added, “I’m convinced there’s a Philadelphia fan who is putting these shirts on the Rocky statue just to get everybody fired up, And it’s working. It’s working tremendously. So keep doing it. … It’s happened every single game. The Giants did it, the 49ers did it. There will probably be a Chiefs jersey on it this week.”
Jason concluded in saying, “Did we think it was going to be both of us? I don’t know. I thought it could happen. But I didn’t ever really fully anticipate it happening until pretty much last week, I was like, ‘Man, this could really happen. We could really have a ‘New Heights’ Kelce Bowl, and we could actually be doing this.'”
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