Retired center Jason Kelce can do no wrong in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Eagles legend was already a hero in the City of Brotherly Love, and furthered his already heroic status by appearing to help squash a recent motion to ban the Tush Push.
Kelce was asked by the Eagles to attend the recent NFL owners meeting, where the future of the controversial play would be voted on. After the motion fell just two votes short of being passed, it’s widely believed that Kelce’s words may have been telling. The former player has since spoken of his “surreal” experience at the meeting.
Jason Kelce Likens NFL Owners Meeting to the Illuminati After Helping To Save the Tush Push
Kelce had been asked to attend the recent NFL owners meeting after rumors surfaced during a previous meeting that he had retired due to the physical toll of the play. There was a growing belief that NFL owners were set to ban the play from 2025 due to game pace and player safety concerns.
Kelce was asked to give owners an insight into the Tush Push from a player’s perspective, with no one more qualified to do so than the former Eagle. Whatever Kelce said during the meeting appears to have paid off, as the play survived by just two votes, with a 75% majority needed for a motion to pass.
Speaking about the meeting in a recent interview with the “94WIP Morning Show,” Kelce described his experience of the event.
“It was awesome to just see how the proposals work, how guys take the floor, there’s back and forth. Roger (Goodell) is obviously leading everything, and then there’s the committees, and Dr. Allen Sills, and the health aspects of it. I really enjoyed the entire thing.
“It felt really surreal to even be in that room. It was like I was in some inner sanctum. I don’t know if the Illuminati is real, but I feel like that room really is close to that. It was wild. It was wild.”
Kelce Claims He’d Unretire If He Only Had To Run the Tush Push
Prior to flying out to Minnesota for the meeting, Kelce discussed the upcoming vote with his brother, Travis, on their “New Heights” podcast. The former Eagle stated that the maneuver had no impact on his decision to retire, claiming it to be safer than a regular short-yardage play.
Doubling down on his take, Kelce claimed that he would come out of retirement if he would only have to perform the Tush Push.
“I’ll tell you this right now,” he said. “I’ll come out of retirement today if you tell me all I’ve gotta do is run 80 Tush Pushes to play in the NFL.”
Once a Philadelphia hero on the field, Kelce is doing a great job of continuing those heroics in retirement, as the Tush Push lives on.