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Jason Kelce Stuns ESPN Colleagues With On-Brand Joke About Dallas

Kristen Wong

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Jason Kelce may have briefly forgotten he was live on Monday Night Countdown for the Dallas Cowboys-Cincinnati Bengals game and not in the comfort of his own home taping his New Heights podcast.

Kelce dropped a bit of on-brand toilet humor before the game's kickoff that didn’t exactly elicit the reaction he was hoping for and he quickly found himself eating his words.

The former Philadelphia Eagles center called Arlington and Dallas, Texas, the “butthole and armpit of America,” which immediately caused his ESPN crew members to react in a bewildered and negative way.

“It was a joke!” Kelce immediately said, explaining that he was playing off of a wisecrack ESPN analyst Mina Kimes made moments earlier.

Looks like the toilet humor doesn’t work so well on Scott Van Pelt, Marcus Spears and company.

“We’re having fun here. I love Dallas,” Kelce added, not very convincingly.

Next time, maybe save it for the pod.

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KRISTEN WONG

Kristen Wong is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. She has been a sports journalist since 2020. Before joining SI in November 2023, Wong covered four NFL teams as an associate editor with the FanSided NFL Network and worked as a staff writer for the brand’s flagship site. Outside of work, she has dreams of running her own sporty dive bar.

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