Terry Bradshaw had a simple reason for feeling for Andy Reid when the Chiefs’ head coach was bumped and berated by Travis Kelce during the Super Bowl.
Bradshaw appeared on “The Rich Eisen Show” on Thursday and gave his two cents on the dustup.
“I felt bad for Andy because Andy had had hip surgery,” Bradshaw said, as covered by Awful Announcing. “He had his game plan in his hand. And when Kelce went over, Kelce didn’t push him, Kelce went over and he accidentally bumped him, I don’t think he pushed him or anything. It was an accident, but it looked bad on television.”
Bradshaw added that he texted Reid after the Chiefs pulled off the victory, and was surprised to hear back promptly.
“Nothing about Kelce,” Bradshaw said of the text exchange with the Chiefs’ head coach. “Kelce felt bad and it’s over. They won the football game.”
During the second quarter of the Super Bowl, Kelce was irate after running back Isiah Pacheco fumbled on a play where Kelce was not in the game.
While cameras showed him visibly irate during the scene, it is unlikely we will ever know exactly what Kelce said to his head coach.
As The Post reported earlier this week, two high-level sources in sports media suspected the Chiefs effectively forbade NFL Films from making the audio public.
On “Inside the NFL” last week, the program cut from a clip of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes talking to Pacheco after the fumble to the video of Kelce bumping and screaming at Reid, but with audio of CBS announcer Tony Romo’s commentary from the game.
A lip reader told The Post that Kelce said something to the effect of, “Hey, come on, you f–ker, put me on.”