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The most popular free of charge agent in athletics broadcasting has officially uncovered his home.
A lot less than two months following he introduced his NFL retirement, Jason Kelce has landed a job with ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown, according to a Monday, April 29 report by The Athletic.
Kelce, 36, experienced been very sought-right after for a television function right after his 13-year career with the Philadelphia Eagles came to an conclusion in March.
Monday Evening Countdown is the studio display — with some on-web-site broadcasts — that precedes Monday Evening Football. Kelce is envisioned to be joined by host Scott Van Pelt and analysts Marcus Spears and Ryan Clark. Robert Griffin III is not predicted back again, for each The Athletic.
Kelce’s identify experienced been joined to ESPN since a March 27 report by The Athletic disclosed the network was warm on his tails. At the time, it was documented that Kelce was also being courted by CBS, NBC and Prime Video, the past of which is the residence of Thursday Evening Football.
Jason has been a seemingly natural match for tv for a even though now, primarily supplied the large achievement of his podcast, “New Heights,” which he cohosts with brother Travis Kelce.
In April 2023, Jason was just one of 25 existing or former gamers to attend the NFL’s Broadcasting and Media Workshop, a three-working day application in which players practiced calling game titles on radio and tv, as properly as paying time understanding the ropes of becoming a studio analyst.
“This is all new territory for me. I have even more regard for it now,” Jason advised the Related Push about the expertise. “It’s extremely difficult to do one thing stay, reactive of stimulus that just happened and getting a thing intelligent and meaningful to say.”
Though Jason soaked in every little thing he could from the workshop, he admitted there was one difficult aspect that stood out: remembering players’ names.
“It’s a ton less difficult when you are sitting down on the sofa or have read the identify more than and in excess of,” Jason reported. “Certainly some of the names are challenging to remember on the location.”
Monday Evening Countdown has also been a wise location for Jason provided the proximity of ESPN’s studios in Bristol, Connecticut, to his dwelling in Philadelphia.
Jason and wife Kylie Kelce share daughters Wyatt, 4, Ellie, 3 and Bennett, 14 months.
The long term Hall of Fame middle announced his retirement in an psychological March 4 press meeting.
“Stepping on the area was the most alive and free I had ever felt,” Jason claimed. “There was a visceral experience with soccer, unlike any sport. The hairs on my arms would stand up. I could strike any person, run around like a crazed lunatic and then get explained to, ‘Good career.’ I like soccer.”
