Heights Hotline | Surviving Super Bowl Hoopla, Keep Sake Jock Straps and How to Stay Locked In

Summary

Podcast Summary:

New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Episode: Heights Hotline | Surviving Super Bowl Hoopla, Keep Sake Jock Straps and How to Stay Locked In
Date: January 30, 2026
Hosts: Jason Kelce (Philadelphia Eagles), Travis Kelce (Kansas City Chiefs)

Overview

In this bonus episode, Jason and Travis Kelce dive into questions from their "Heights Hotline" centered around Super Bowl experiences. They offer candid, humorous insights into the less glamorous parts of Super Bowl week, share stories about odd keepsakes, and explain how NFL players stay mentally focused amid the media circus leading up to the big game. The brothers’ trademark banter, authenticity, and brotherly ribbing are on full display as they answer questions from their dedicated listeners ("92 percenters").

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Least Glamorous Part of Super Bowl Week

(Timestamps: 01:08–02:53)

• Media Obligations: Both agree that "media day" (now a week-long event) is the biggest drag, describing it as a necessary evil more tedious than glamorous.

  • Jason: "It's easy. It's the media." (01:36)
  • Travis: "Media day is the most, like, necessarily unnecessary thing ever." (01:38)
  • Jason notes some elements are fun, particularly when creative outlets like Nickelodeon are involved, but the monotony and repeated questions wear thin.

• Sponsorship Events & Hoopla:

  • Jason recalls a particularly overblown event at the Mall of America that was essentially "just a giant appearance that was a pain in the ass." (02:11)
  • Travis summarizes: "I call it hoopla. You just got a bunch of hoopla during the biggest game." (02:29)

• Memorable Quote:

  • Travis (joking about spelling): "G L A M O O U R O U S. There’s not two O’s. There’s no O U R…Fergie knows how to spell it." (02:54)

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2. Weirdest Super Bowl Souvenirs Kept

(Timestamps: 03:23–06:10)

• Player Keepsakes:

  • Jason kept the jock strap of a teammate (Brent Celek) and intended to mount it with his game jersey, admitting it's probably his weirdest souvenir.
    • "I want to say I got Selick's jock strap from the game. I was gonna mount it with his jersey that I had." (04:38)
  • Jason is also collecting and displaying various game jerseys, including Travis’s.
  • Travis and Jason both mention saving confetti from the field post-Super Bowl.
    • Jason: "I have confetti from the 2017 game." (05:49)
    • Travis: "I definitely got some confetti. I grabbed some off the floor, threw it in my pocket." (05:55)

• Display Preferences:

  • They muse on whether to encase jerseys in glass or just hang them to keep the "dirt and sweat" real.
    • Travis: "I'm not even in on, like, putting them in glass. I want to be able to touch the fabric." (05:33)

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3. How Players Stay Mentally Focused for the Super Bowl

(Timestamps: 08:28–14:03)

• Routine & Structure:

  • Jason: Reiterates the importance of sticking to a weekly routine, even around Super Bowl week, to keep mentally locked in and limit distractions.

    • "The routine and schedule did a great job…making you lock in on the game and avoid, you know, all the media and family things..." (08:54)

  • Travis: Explains how teams have two weeks to prepare, with the bulk of playbook work done at home before the team even travels to Super Bowl city.

    • "You pretty much know your playbook before you even go down to the kind of the circus that is the Super Bowl." (09:58)

  • Both: Emphasize that the process is "the same thing over and over again," which brings comfort and focus. The excitement and distractions can be real, but routine prevails.

• Practice Week Breakdown:

  • Tuesday: Film review, team intro

  • Wednesday: First lift, install 1st/2nd down plays ("base game plan")

  • Thursday: Install passing, special situation plays

  • Friday: Red zone install, two-minute plays; fast walkthrough

  • Second week is about reinforcing the same, often with some tweaks and muscle memory application.

  • Jason: "Friday is when we would do the bulk of the red zone install. And then you're gonna repeat all of those days when you're on site." (13:00)

• Addressing "Dead Week":

  • Both clarify there's no “check-out.” The week after clinching the Super Bowl berth is just as structured and essential, with no time off or relaxation.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Media Day:

  • "Media day is the most, like, necessarily unnecessary thing ever." — Travis (01:38)

• On Keepsakes:

  • "I want to say I got Selick's jock strap from the game." — Jason (04:38)
  • "Can't wash them. You got to feel the dirt and the sweat. I'm not even in on putting them in glass." — Travis (05:33)

• On Super Bowl Preparation:

  • "You mentally prepare for it the same way you do every week...Even though there are a lot of distractions...you really fall back to the same training that got you there." — Jason (08:54)
  • "You get two weeks, you get a week at home and then you get a week at the Super Bowl...mentally, you have everything before you even go down." — Travis (09:58)

• Banter Highlight:

  • Jason, on displaying Travis’s jersey: "You're gonna put my jersey up there?"
    Jason: "Of course."
    Travis: "You don't know where my jersey is."
    Jason: "I know exactly where it is." (05:13–05:17)

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Segment Timestamps

• 01:08: Least glamorous part of the Super Bowl — media obligations
• 03:23: Weirdest souvenir kept from the Super Bowl
• 08:28: How players mentally prepare and focus leading up to the game
• 11:10: The question of "dead week" and scheduling
• 12:09–13:44: In-depth breakdown of typical Super Bowl prep week
• 13:55–14:10: Final takes and lighthearted banter

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Tone & Overall Feel

Jason and Travis blend frank, behind-the-scenes NFL insights with humor and laid-back banter. They never miss a chance to tease each other, but their answers are genuine, detailed, and relatable. For fans and non-fans alike, this episode demystifies some of the Super Bowl “hoopla” and gives a grounded look at what elite athletes actually experience before the biggest stage in football.

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For listeners who want the inside scoop on what’s real (and not) behind Super Bowl week—the Kelces keep it honest, irreverent, and highly entertaining.

Transcript

[Brandon]

Do you practice next to the electrical substation?

[Travis Kells]

No, you can't. You got to stay the away from that dude.

[Brandon]

I'm all in on this.

[Jason Kells]

Somebody's going to be at the the afc.

[Travis Kells]

It's the Patriots.

[Jason Kells]

Is it always just switch or does it go to the team with the best record? That's the home team.

[Travis Kells]

I would. I think it switches every year because it's whoever the home team is for the Super Bowl. Hey, guys. Welcome to this bonus episode of New Heights, a wonder show brought to you by Allstate. We're your host. I'm Travis Kells. This is my big brother. Same name, same name. Subscribe on YouTube wonder plus wherever you get your podcast. Probably on one drew plus already. So hey now, how about that? Follow the show on all social media. Ewhightshow with 1s. If you didn't know, you could also visit The New Heights Kelseyclub.com where you can get anything. New Heights and anything. Kelsey and Jason, why don't you tell the people what we have coming up on this amazing bonus episode of new heights.

[Jason Kells]

Well, 92 percenters, on today's bonus episode, we are going to check the heights hotline to answer your super bowl questions. That's right. We've asked you to submit them. You have. We will now listen to them. Let's get right into it. Heights hotline, super bowl edition.

[Caller]

Hey, Jason and Travis. No dumb question. What's the least glamorous part of the super bowl that fans never think about but players deal with all the time? Thank you.

[Jason Kells]

Least glamorous.

[Travis Kells]

I mean, everything about the super bowl is glam. There's nothing that's like, the least glamorous. The least glamorous is probably, I mean, playing the game. Yeah, I think she's asking, like, what's the are like, one part of the super bowl that we don't enjoy if we're in it, maybe.

[Jason Kells]

Oh, it's easy. It's. That's the media.

[Travis Kells]

The media day is the most, like, necessarily unnecessary thing ever.

[Jason Kells]

I mean, there's part some of it's cool just because there's, like, so many people there and it's like, that's fine. It just is a long thing that you're done with, and by that point, you don't want to answer the same questions you've been asked a thousand times. There's some people that go to it and, like Nickelodeon ones that have some interesting questions that make it kind of worth it. But I don't know. I, I, that's probably the Part that you're more. Most like, I'm kind of over this.

[Travis Kells]

Yeah, it's definitely the one that the players hate the worst or. Yeah. Hate the most.

[Jason Kells]

There was also something we did where there was, like, a lot of, like, corporate sponsors that I think was at, like, a Mall of America at one point, and it just was like, another. It was like a. Basically just a giant appearance that was a pain in the ass. But, yeah, basically all the stuff that doesn't involve you just playing football and doing what you always want.

[Travis Kells]

I call it hoopla. You just got a bunch of hoopla during the biggest game. And the hoopla means something to the excitement of the game, for sure. Like, a lot of the sound bits and everything. And to be honest, it was kind of fun when we were in the super bowl together because we got to just talk about our family and how amazing our mom and dad and the city of Cleveland Heights were. But it can definitely get pretty.

[Jason Kells]

It's just a long week.

[Travis Kells]

Yeah. Glamours. G L A M O O U R O U S. There's no two. There's not two O's. There's no O U R. There's no. There's only one. Whoever said Glenn, they just spelled it wrong. Fergie knows how to spell it.

[Jason Kells]

G L A M O R O.

[Travis Kells]

U S. Somebody first class up in the sky. All right, let's get to the next one.

[Caller]

Jason and Travis, I know you guys have been to your fair share of Super Bowls and notoriously gotten those re as, you know, memory souvenirs and everything, but I was wondering, what is the weirdest item that you've gotten or kept for yourself from one of the Super Bowls that you've been to? Okay, let me know, bud.

[Travis Kells]

Oh, I almost just fucking choked on laughing.

[Jason Kells]

Do you have a. You have a good.

[Travis Kells]

I mean, we're still. Do you still have that Luchador mask?

[Jason Kells]

Oh, man, I. I owe that back. That's not a Super bowl that I was in, though. I don't think I can count that.

[Travis Kells]

You can't count that super bowl that I was in? I mean. No, not really.

[Jason Kells]

I feel like I. There's got to be something that I kept that I just. Is very weird.

[Travis Kells]

I have it in a box in storage or something. The media days, everybody comes up to you and get a few. You'll get a handful of souvenirs here and there. So I definitely remember grabbing some stuff and being like, oh, that'd be cool to keep. And, like, look at.

[Jason Kells]

Later on, I want to say I got Selick's jock strap from the game.

[Travis Kells]

Oh, jock straps.

[Jason Kells]

I was gonna. I was gonna mount it with his jersey that I had his game jersey.

[Travis Kells]

Where the. Are you gonna put. Jason? Do you even. Are you gonna even gonna have anywhere in your house where you're gonna mount your teammates jerseys? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Jason Kells]

Am I.

[Travis Kells]

Am I?

[Jason Kells]

Yeah, in the weight room.

[Travis Kells]

Oh, all right. Nice. Nice. I didn't know you were. That you were a show off your jerseys kind of guy. Nice.

[Jason Kells]

I mean, I'm. I'm generally not, but. No, I do plan on displaying a lot of the jerseys I've acquired over the years. Nice. Especially guys that I play with.

[Travis Kells]

You're gonna put my jersey up there?

[Jason Kells]

Of course.

[Travis Kells]

You don't know where my jersey is.

[Jason Kells]

I know exactly where it is. I have all my jerseys stored downstairs. They're all in the same.

[Travis Kells]

You are downstairs.

[Jason Kells]

No, no, no. There's a downstairs to this. This is the den. There's a basement. I. Nope. I do not wash anything.

[Travis Kells]

Can't wash them. You got to feel the. You got to feel the dirt and the sweat. You got to feel that. I'm not even. I. I'm not even in on, like, putting them in glass. I kind of want to just. I want to be able to, like, touch the. The. The fabric.

[Jason Kells]

Oh, that's interesting. Just put on a hanger and hang it on the wall.

[Travis Kells]

Yeah. Hang them. Yeah.

[Jason Kells]

I have confetti from the 2017 game.

[Travis Kells]

There you go.

[Jason Kells]

Yeah, I got a conf that doesn't.

[Travis Kells]

Have a su bowl, but you got the confetti. That's good shit. Yeah, the confetti. I definitely got some confetti. I grabbed some confetti off that floor, threw it in my pocket.

[Jason Kells]

All right. Anything else that's kind of crazy and wacky?

[Travis Kells]

No, nothing too crazy.

[Jason Kells]

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[Jason Kells]

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[Travis Kells]

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[Brandon]

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[Travis Kells]

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[Caller]

Good morning, Jason. Good morning, Travis. This is Candace. And here's my not so dumb question. With all of the excitement and media obligations and other things surrounding the weeks prior to the super bowl, do the players, as professional athletes, mentally prepare and focus for the biggest game of their lives? Hope I hear an answer. Thank you so much.

[Jason Kells]

All right. You mentally prepare for it the same way you do every week. That's one of the things that, like the. The NFL schedule and like the way you operate each week, it becomes so routine and so kind of second nature that you just are locked into it. And even though there are a lot of distractions and there are things that are easy to get you out of your comfort zone, you really fall back to, like, the same training that got you there, and you're on your second week of it. At that point, the Same week of the Super Bowl. So, like, you're. You're kind of just going through the same thing over and over and over again. You're going to. Everything you do that Tuesday is same thing you did the Tuesday before. Everything you did the Wednesday that week, same thing you did the Wednesday before. So I think that routine and schedule kind of always did a great job for me at least, of making you lock in on the game and avoid, you know, all the media and family things and whatnot that end up just being, like, a lot of outside things that can distract you from the task at hand.

[Travis Kells]

Couldn't have said it better myself. I think the biggest thing is that you get two weeks, you get a week in Kansas, you get a week at home, and then you get a week at the Super Bowl. So mental preparation, you typically get the entire playbook. It might switch. They might get a maybe four or five new different plays when you get down to the super bowl, but you pretty much know, or at least this is how we did it in Kansas City, is that you know your playbook before you even go down to the kind of the circus that is the super bowl with the media and all that stuff. So mentally, you have everything before you even go to the.

[Jason Kells]

Already rep.

[Travis Kells]

Exactly. So you kind of already have that aspect of it, and then when you get down there, you just can't lose focus on. On, you know, the game and can't let the excitement of it get too big or can't let your mind wander at all. The stuff that comes with the super bowl, which can be pretty challenging for a lot of people, no doubt.

[Brandon]

Can I ask one follow up?

[Jason Kells]

Oh, God, Brandon.

[Brandon]

The week. That weird dead week. Do you guys, like, check out in that week and then start, like, get back into the super bowl after that weekend, or is it like, as soon as you know you're in, it starts?

[Jason Kells]

No, that's what Travis was saying. So the week. The week. This week right now, the Patriots and the Seahawks, they're on a vacation right now. They're doing.

[Travis Kells]

Literally right now, they're practicing.

[Jason Kells]

They're doing the exact same thing they would do if the game was going to be played this Sunday.

[Brandon]

Okay. That's kind of what I'm asking.

[Jason Kells]

Yeah, no, I know. We also kind of just said this, so it's fine. We'll answer it again, though. Oh, okay. The exact same thing you do for a normal work.

[Travis Kells]

Well, Brandon, anything. We're saying, Brandon, I have other stuff going on. What do you got, birds outside? There's some.

[Brandon]

There's some cool birds outside.

[Jason Kells]

I'm like, well these fucking brown eyed warbler outside.

[Brandon]

Scrub Jay fuck out of my face. All right, I'll take my answer off the air. Jesus.

[Jason Kells]

So typically the way the NFL schedule works is like there's something to do on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday are a structured schedule of like Tuesday you're going to come and get introductory to the team you're playing. You're going to rewatch last week's film.

[Travis Kells]

Also like nice recovery day. Yeah, nice flush.

[Jason Kells]

Wednesday you're getting your first lift in for the week and you're also watching, you're doing, you're installing first and second down plays. Right. Typically the run game especially is a Wednesday.

[Travis Kells]

Call it the base game plan the majority of the plays you're going to be running. Yes.

[Jason Kells]

Thursday is a day where you're repping most of the passing game. Right. So you're doing like third down, second and long plays.

[Travis Kells]

It's a little more special situation like third down, fourth down, short yardage, goal line backed up. It's all those kind of special. And obviously this differs with every team. Some teams might do red zone on a different day, some teams may do those special situations on a different day. But typically you take one day for base pass game, third down, short yards, specific situations and then red zone.

[Jason Kells]

Yeah. And then Friday is when we would do the bulk of the red zone install. On Friday you would hit your two minute plays that you're thinking about repping in the game. A lot of those other specialty plays that are the last ones and that's more of like the fast Friday you're in and out. It's a super quick day, a lot of heavy walkthrough potential and then you're gonna repeat all of those days when.

[Brandon]

You'Re, when you're on site, wherever you're.

[Jason Kells]

At in the show. That's why what Trav was saying, like you're kind of doing the same thing again, but you've already ripped it once so you don't need to be as like locked into it. You're kind of just re engineering and kind of bringing that back.

[Brandon]

Just going back through muscle memory. But in a new location, you're sharpening.

[Travis Kells]

It, you're sharpening it up.

[Jason Kells]

Yeah.

[Brandon]

All right. That's all I wanted to know.

[Travis Kells]

Maybe getting a different look than you didn't get in the week prior.

[Jason Kells]

They'll do that too. Yeah, they'll give you. If you're.

[Travis Kells]

They'll ask the scout team. Yeah, they'll ask the scout.

[Jason Kells]

They might give you a nickel wrap or they'll give you, you know, a certain type of blitz or something like that that they might do at a high rate in that situation. Whatever it is.

[Brandon]

Look at this detailed answer we just gave. Look at that. We got a little extra on that. I feel like I've learned something. Yeah. Jake, get the out of here.

[Jason Kells]

What do you guys do the the week before you go to the super bowl, though? Okay, off, Jake. All right, that wraps up another edition of heights hotline. Once again, heights hotline was brought to you by offstate. We'll have some more bonus content for you all in February. So stay tuned to what that might be.

[Travis Kells]

Once again, new heights, a wondry show. If you didn't know, follow the show on all social media at new height show with 1s. Don't forget to check out Kelsey clubhouse for anything new heights and Kelsey. And thank you to our production and crew for always making us look better and to making sure that we answer the questions precisely and we get everything out of this show that we possibly can. Thank you guys. I love you guys. 92 percentage will see you guys next week. Super bowl week.