Jason Kelce Recalls Getting into a Physical Fight with Ed Kelce as a Kid: ‘I Feel So Bad for Dad’

Jason detailed the childhood exchange on the April 22 episode of ‘New Heights’

Jason Kelce feels bad about a confrontation he had with his dad back in the day.

On the Wednesday, April 22 episode of his and brother Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast, Jason recalled getting into a physical fight with Ed Kelce as a teen.

“We were in the house, and I did something where I was mouthing off to him, I’m sure,” the father of four shared. “I don’t know what I said to him to get him so riled up. And he just like, ‘You think you’re oh, the big, tough football guy. You think you’ve like, you’re the big guy?’ ”

Jason said his dad then “tried to, like, wrestle me to the ground,” but the move didn’t work.

“He just kinda, like, fell and, like, was ankle biting me, basically,” Jason recalled. “And I just, like, fell down because I was like, ‘Oh my God. I feel so bad for dad.’ ”

Jason’s story followed Travis’s account of a time he got into a physical fight with an adult coach while playing hockey.

“I scored like five goals and was talking s— to their bench,” Travis recalled. “Then their player f—ing hit me. I hit him. Then I got into a brawl with the players. The coach that was in the line, shaking hands, grabs me by the back of my jersey.”

Travis said the momentum of the moment led him to hit the coach, saying, “Now it looks like he just got knocked out by an eighth grader.”

The Kansas City Chiefs tight end said that Ed got mad at him for the exchange as his mom, Donna Kelce, was with Travis at the time.

“He’s like, ‘Don’t ever do that when I’m not there. Don’t you ever put your mother in that situation,’ ” Travis recalled. “I was like, ‘I don’t plan on hitting a grown-ass man ever again in my life, Dad.’ ”

The Kelce brothers are close with both of their parents and have been open through the years about their impact on their lives.

“My Dad was my role model growing up,” Jason shared on a Feb. 2025 episode of The Steam Room podcast. “I thought he was the smartest guy in the world. I thought he was the most impressive human being. Everything he said, I took like it was the God’s truth. He instilled so much of a toughness and a work ethic and a mentality in me and my brother that I’ll always be indebted and grateful to him.”