{"id":7710,"date":"2024-03-05T15:15:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T14:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=7710"},"modified":"2024-03-05T15:15:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T14:15:45","slug":"unexpected-jason-kelce-officially-announced-his-retirement-from-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=7710","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected: Jason Kelce officially announced his retirement from the NFL."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Kelce just announced he\u2019s retiring from the NFL THROUGH TEARS! He\u2019s given so much to the game. Sending love to one of the greats!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s see how long this lasts,\u201d remarked Kelce, sporting a sleeveless Eagles T-shirt, before breaking down in tears and needing some time to gather himself at a press conference that his brother Travis, who was wearing sunglasses, and parents Ed and Donna attended inside the auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>Before he eventually announced his retirement, Kelce took 45 minutes to go over his career, from his early years in Ohio to his last days with the Eagles, replete with tears, humor, and heartfelt gratitude to his biggest inspirations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy entire career, I have been the underdog,\u201d he declared. \u201cAnd I still wish I was, and I mean it when I say it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one likes us! No one likes us! No one likes us! We don\u2019t care,\u201d Kelce exclaimed that day in February 2018. \u201cWe\u2019re from Philly! (Expletive) Philly. No one likes us! We don\u2019t care!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\ud83d\udea8 JASON KELCE ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT FROM THE NFL \ud83d\udea8 | The Pat McAfee Show\" width=\"820\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rWZkAcPPDc4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Kelce just announced he\u2019s retiring from the NFL THROUGH TEARS! He\u2019s given so much to the game. Sending love to one of the greats! \u201cLet\u2019s see how long this lasts,\u201d remarked Kelce, sporting a sleeveless Eagles T-shirt, before breaking down in tears and needing some time to gather himself at a press conference that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7711,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710\/revisions\/7711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}