And portion the Kansas City Chiefs person held onto an undefeated play aft 5 games, the choky end—whose ain show is being criticized, with immoderate pointing to his narration with Taylor Swift arsenic the cause—Travis worries a nonaccomplishment volition mean a barrage from naysayers.
“I conscionable got to support winning,” helium noted during the Oct. 16 episode of his and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast. “If we suffer a game, it’s going to f--king rainfall down, baby.”
He continued with a smile, “So we gotta support winning, staying connected top.”
The 34-year-old’s comments came aft the episode’s impermanent Pat McAfeespoke to the mode Travis and Taylor’s narration has impacted the crippled of football.
“I presume you perceive it a batch Travis, you and Taylor's narration is large for the sport,” Pat told Travis. “It is getting introduced to truthful galore people, and you person been the cleanable practice for our sport, too. Genuinely I deliberation there's nary different quality that could bash what you're doing.”
The erstwhile NFL pro continued, arsenic Jason nodded along, “And however you’re doing it is awesome. And I request you to cognize that each of america are incredibly arrogant of the mode you’re representing each of us.”
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But erstwhile it comes to Travis himself, the seasoned subordinate tin grip the pressure—and, successful effect to those who’d allege helium was excessively distracted with Taylor successful the disconnected season, he’d accidental helium knows conscionable however overmuch helium tin handle.
"It's not needfully pressure," Travis told E! News in October of his feelings heading into this NFL season. "I'm my ain worst professional and I definitely, I decidedly instrumentality that into account."
He continued, "Understanding however overmuch clip I had, however overmuch remainder I needed, I've gotten a beauteous bully gauge implicit the past 10 years [of] being successful the NFL, that I recognize what I request to bash to get acceptable for the season."
Meanwhile, Jason—who precocious became an ESPN commentator aft retiring from the Philadelphia Eagles earlier this year—has besides come to his brother’s defense.
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"Optics are that helium is each implicit the place," Jason said earlier the Chiefs' Oct. 7 crippled against the New Orleans Saints, noting, "Football has ever been the astir important happening successful Trav's life."
"He has ever lived his beingness to the fullest," the 36-year-old continued, referencing Travis’ clip distant from the field. "He has enjoyed his off-seasons precise overmuch adjacent earlier Taylor Swift and everything other that was going connected successful our lives."
But arsenic Jason added, "He is ever going to find a mode to marque shot the fig 1 priority."
And successful the meantime, Taylor is trying to get to arsenic galore games arsenic she can to enactment her feline connected the Chiefs. For a look backmost astatine her crippled time style, support reading.