Travis Kelce has been hit with an enormous positive after the NFL decided the tight finish made “obscene gestures” throughout the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs's first house sport.
Throughout Kansas Metropolis's sport in opposition to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, September 14, Kelce, 35, appeared to rejoice a 23-yard run by miming juggling his personal testicles as a taunt to the opposing staff.
Although the second initially went unnoticed by referees, it was caught on digicam and shared widely online. As reported by NBC News on Saturday, September 20, league officers caught wind and slapped Kelce with a $14,491 positive.
The start of the NFL season has been a testy one for Kelce. Throughout the identical sport, Kelce was caught telling his teammates, “I'm sick of this s***” earlier than the Fox broadcast went to interrupt. The Chiefs in the end misplaced the sport 20-17 and are presently 0-2, the worst begin for the franchise since 2014.
The loss was partly attributed to a mistake Kelce made throughout the sport's fourth quarter, when he flubbed a move from quarterback Patrick Mahomes, which allowed the Eagles' Andrew Mukuba to intercept the ball. The Eagles ended up scoring a landing off the play, which boosted the rating to 20-10 of their favor.
The sport prompted Shannon Sharpe to tear into Kelce on his “Nightcap” podcast the identical day.
“Kelce has been lazy,” Sharpe, 57, mentioned. “He's getting lazy along with his head and he's getting lazy along with his eyes. He is aware of in that space of the sphere, he has to snap his head. He is aware of, I don't know why he's so lazy along with his head.”
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Sharpe, a former tight finish for the Chiefs, continued: “There may be no person inside, and [Reed] Blankenship has bought you manned. Why are you so lazy? Your head, you've got to snap it round, you recognize that. And also you took factors off the board. In different phrases, you don't get factors and so they go down and so they get factors.”
The retired footballer additionally mentioned that Kelce's teammate Mahomes, 30, wants extra expertise round him on the sphere. “There may be nothing particular about anyone on that staff proper now offensively apart from Patrick Mahomes,” Sharpe insisted.
Travis Kelce is beginning to present the indicators of his uncharacteristically gradual begin to the season. Kelce, 34, was noticed by NBC's Sunday Night time Soccer cameras trying despondent because the clock wound down within the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs' 22-17 victory over the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, September 22. Regardless of the Chiefs incomes their third victory […]
Kelce himself has acknowledged the struggles he's confronted to date this season.
“I do know it's kinda sounding like a damaged document from final yr's Tremendous Bowl, however that's on us as leaders,” he mentioned on the September 10 episode of his “New Heights” podcast after the Chiefs misplaced their first sport of the season. “I'll take probably the most accountability myself. I wasn't prepared for that first drive.”
