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“At his home stadium, Tucker’s warmup was disrupted by several Kansas City players, including Kelce throwing his helmet and wide receiver Marques Valdez-Scantling kicking a placeholder out of the way.”
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Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker wasn’t just encroaching on the Kansas City Chiefs’ warmups before Sunday’s AFC Championship. As Travis Kelce told his brother Jason on this week’s episode of their New Heights podcast, the NFL legend was actually playing head games.
‘Don’t look at me as the bad guy,’ Travis told Jason, the Philadelphia Eagles center. ‘He was poking the bear.’Prior to the Chiefs’ 17-10 victory over the Ravens, Kelce was seen furiously moving Tucker’s gear while the celebrated kicker was stretching at Kansas City’s end of the field just a few feet from Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes. NFL Network’s James Palmer caught the exchange on his cell phone and the footage quickly went viral.
‘I had multiple people text me at the end of the game, middle of the game, like: ”What’s Travis doing?”’ Jason said.On their podcast, Travis pointed the finger at Tucker: ‘If you’re trying to go onto the other team’s designated area, you kind of stay out of their way. You don’t interfere with what they have going on…
That’s the unwritten rule. If you want to be a f***ing d*** about it, you keep your helmet, and your football, and your f***ing kicking tee right where the quarterbacks are warming up. And they’re dropping back [to pass] eyes are looking left and they got a helmet down by their feet
Jason was quick to point out, ‘it’s actually kind of dangerous,’ while agreeing with his brother about the kicker.’Tucker is known for this,’ Jason said. ‘He’s a legendary kicker and he knows how to poke the buttons.