Travis Kelce is revisiting a moment he’d like to forget — but didn’t —from Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills.
The Kansas City Chiefs star, who took a brutal helmet to the chest just before halftime, was evaluated for a concussion, he shared on the Wednesday, Nov. 5 episode of New Heights.
“It knocked the wind out of me,” Kelce, 36, told his brother Jason, who turned 38 on Wednesday, about Bills safety Cole Bishop’s tackle. “He caught me. I got kinda sandwiched in there.”
In the moments after he hit the end zone turf, the tight end added that he knew he was “okay,” but that it took a few seconds to get his breath back.
Kelce was taken into the blue tent on the sidelines so that trainers could evaluate whether he had a concussion — all of which was seemingly confusing to the star.
“Why? Why I am I in the blue tent?” the 13-year NFL veteran said he pondered at the time. Kelce then went to the locker room just before halftime where he underwent further testing, fielding questions from concerned staffers.
With the season at its midway point, he joked to Jason on the podcast that he wouldn’t know what team they played the previous week, even if he hadn’t hit his head.
“We’re in Week 9. Are you kidding me?” Travis said. “You’re gonna make me sit here and f—— ask who did we play last week? The Commanders. We played the Commanders.”
Just before Travis aced the test that would have had him entering concussion protocol, he made sure to let Bills fans — who were cheering his potential injury — know he was there for the moment. As he left the field, he cupped his hand to his ear, jawing with members of the Bills Mafia.
“He keeps saying, ‘I love it, I love it,’ as they give him a little business,” play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz said, referring to the crowd’s behavior.
