Andy Reid, Travis Kelce vow to return to Chiefs subsequent season

LAS VEGAS — The partnership between Andy Reid and Travis Kelce will proceed for a twelfth season, with each saying after the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ 25-22 additional time win over the San Francisco 49ers in Tremendous Bowl LVIII that they’d return for an additional season relatively than retire.

Their relationship went via one other tough patch within the second quarter. After Chiefs operating again Isiah Pacheco misplaced a fumble, Kelce bumped Reid and screamed in his face on the sideline earlier than being led away by operating again Jerick McKinnon.

This wasn’t the primary confrontation between the 2 and possibly will not be the final, given their plans to return to the Chiefs subsequent season. This one was fairly vivid, with Reid virtually getting knocked off his ft.

He mentioned afterward he appreciated the veteran tight finish’s ardour.

“He caught me off steadiness,” Reid mentioned, indicating the contact was worse than it regarded. “I wasn’t watching. He was actually coming over [and saying], ‘Simply put me in, I am going to rating. I am going to rating.’ So, that is actually what it was. I really like that. It isn’t the primary time. I respect him.

“The half I really like is he likes to play the sport and he needs to assist his crew win. It isn’t a egocentric factor. That is not what it’s. I perceive that. As a lot as he bumps into me, I get after him and we perceive that. He simply caught me off steadiness.”

Kelce mentioned his feelings received the higher of him.

“I did not care about my catches,” he mentioned. “I simply wished to … I wished the rating to be totally different. Coach has requested us to talk our minds and I simply wished to let him understand how a lot ardour I had for this crew.

“He is top-of-the-line leaders of males I’ve ever seen in my life. And he is helped me quite a bit with that, with channeling that emotion, with channeling that zeal. I owe my whole profession to that man and having the ability to type of management how emotional I get and simply love him.”

The Chiefs polished their legacy by outlasting the 49ers. They’re the fourth franchise to win three Tremendous Bowl video games in 5 seasons and the primary to win back-to-back Tremendous Bowls in 20 years.

“I do know this is without doubt one of the best groups of all time, to go back-to-back,” Kelce mentioned. “This can be a as soon as in a lifetime alternative that I have been in a position to undergo thrice now and it will get sweeter and sweeter each time. You possibly can name us a dynasty. You possibly can name us no matter you need. I do know what we have is one thing extra particular than actually what you’ve got seen within the NFL.”

Quarterback Patrick Mahomes polished a legacy of his personal, becoming a member of Tom Brady and Joe Montana as the one quarterbacks to win three Tremendous Bowl titles and two regular-season MVP awards.

He was solely afterward about speaking about his crew’s place in historical past.

“I hope individuals keep in mind not solely the greatness that we’ve got on the sphere, however the way in which that we have finished it,” he mentioned. “I really feel like we take pleasure in it each single day. We have now enjoyable, we play arduous and it is not all the time fairly, however we simply proceed to battle to the very finish.

“I do know [some fans] get fatigue generally of 1 crew profitable, however we attempt to take pleasure in it and simply benefit from the second that we’ve got collectively and revel in simply type of what we will do each single day to carry the perfect out of one another.”