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Kristen Wong

Pat McAfee Had Two-Word NSFW Translation of Travis Kelce’s Chiefs-Refs Comments

ESPN analysts Pat McAfee before the game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Penn State Nittany Lions in the Orange Bowl at Hard Rock Stadium. | Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images

Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce navigated his way through some tough topics on Super Bowl opening night from his plans to propose to Taylor Swift to his NFL retirement timeline. Unsurprisingly, the topic that made the most headlines on Monday surrounded Kelce’s blunt comments on the Chiefs-refs conspiracy theory this postseason.

Kelce unabashedly called out the NFL media for “leaning into the whole ref thing” during the Chiefs’ Super Bowl run, which saw Kansas City receive several calls that went their way during playoff wins over the Houston Texans and Buffalo Bills.

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