Jason Kelce denied falling asleep at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour show in Miami last Friday after a viral photo showed the former NFL player appearing to doze off from his VIP box at Hard Rock Stadium.
“You took a nap at the Eras Tour. What is that all about?” Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, asked his brother in Wednesday’s episode of their “New Heights” podcast.
Jason, 36, immediately shut down his brother’s assumption, telling him he did “not take a nap.”
“Travis, you know I didn’t take a nap. I did not take a nap,” Jason asserted.
Travis, 35, continued to roast the retired Philadelphia Eagles center over the viral moment, asking him how he could take a snooze during such an “electric” show.
“It’s the greatest show that’s ever been onstage, and you’re over here falling asleep?” he pressed.
Jason took the opportunity to explain how he was snapped with his eyes shut at the “insane” and “exciting” concert.
The older Kelce brother said he felt like he was “in a fishbowl” with everyone at the show staring at him, so he decided to sit down in his seat.
He claimed to have been dancing with his daughter Elliotte until she went over to his wife, Kylie Kelce, and the ex-athlete then decided to immerse himself in the music.
“I’m just, like, sitting here, and I’m just, like, feeling it, and I’m, like, tapping my thigh, and I’m just, like, in the moment listening to the song, and then all of a sudden I go on Twitter and I see this f–king picture,” he said of the snap posted on X by former NFL player Beau Allen, who had joined him in the box.
“I’m like, ‘Dude, what the f–k? I’m not even sleeping, and I can prove it to you,’” he added.
Jason argued there was “evidence” in the photo that proves he was wide awake.
“My hand is hovering. You can’t sleep with your hand hovering above your knee,” Jason said. “It’s impossible.”
He continued, “I’m not Major Payne. I can’t sleep with my eyes open, much less with my hand hovering above my knee. I was slapping my knee.”
Jason pretended to razz Allen, 32, for putting him on blast, saying he was “betrayed by one of [his] best friends.”
“That’s how it happens. That’s not betrayal. That’s just being a friend,” Travis said.
Jason agreed, responding, “You’re right. That’s just called being a friend.”
Travis — who had to skip the show due to his Kansas City Chiefs game against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday — admitted he had “FOMO” (fear of missing out).
“It was incredible,” Jason said.
The ESPN analyst attended the concert with Kylie, 32, and two of their three daughters: Wyatt, 5, and Elliotte, 3. They also share 1-year-old Bennett.
The Kelce family’s matriarch, Donna Kelce, also checked out the show, marking her first Eras Tour appearance.
