What was all in good enjoyable to Justin Tucker was a nuisance to Travis Kelce.
The Baltimore Ravens kicker and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish received right into a quarrel throughout pregame warmups of the AFC Championship Sport on Sunday at M&T Financial institution Stadium. Whereas Tucker was warming up on the Chiefs’ half of the sector, which is allowed for particular groups gamers, he received right into a heated dialogue with Kelce and quarterback Patrick Mahomes after Kelce tossed Tucker’s gear apart of Kansas Metropolis’s drills.
On “New Heights,” Kelce and his brother Jason’s podcast, Travis mentioned, “Specialists, due to the wind issue, they get an opportunity to kick at each subject targets. However it’s all the time, when you’re making an attempt to go on the opposite staff’s designated space, keep out of their manner.”
“That’s the unwritten rule,” Jason mentioned.
“You don’t intrude with what they’ve happening,” Travis mentioned. “If you wish to be a f—— d— about it, you retain your helmet and your soccer and your f—— kicking tee proper the place the quarterbacks are warming up. Eyes are wanting left they usually received a helmet down by their toes. Should you’re not gonna decide that up, I’ll fortunately transfer that for you.”
Travis shared his facet of the pregame interplay with Justin Tucker
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Travis mentioned Tucker was “being a d— about it, making an attempt to get beneath the pores and skin,” however he and Mahomes “simply weren’t in a joking temper.”
Tucker had already moved his gear as soon as earlier than Travis threw it apart. Tucker mentioned Mahomes requested him to maneuver his helmet whereas Tucker was on the bottom stretching, and Tucker “fortunately received up” and moved it out of the way in which.
“A minimum of, I believe it was sufficient out of the way in which,” Tucker mentioned Monday, as he and his teammates cleaned out their lockers a day after the season-ending 17-10 loss to the Chiefs. “After which Travis comes over and simply kicks my stuff and he throws my helmet. I simply thought it was all some gamesmanship, all in good enjoyable. However it appeared to be taken somewhat extra significantly.”
It was.
“Justin, sorry if we took it to a stage that you just didn’t assume it’d get to, however when you’re going to be a d—, I promise you, I can one-up ya each time,” Travis mentioned.
The rivalry between the 2 appears to have been extinguished. Tucker mentioned Monday he’s superb letting the incident go, calling Travis — who handed Jerry Rice for probably the most postseason receptions of all time within the AFC title sport with 152 — and Mahomes “two of the very best gamers which have ever performed the sport at their respective positions.”
Travis echoed the sentiment, ending the podcast phase calling Tucker — who’s made 90.2 p.c of his regular-season subject targets and collected 1,649 regular-season factors — “arguably among the best (kickers) we’ve ever seen within the NFL.”
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