Football fans didn’t buy it when Georgia coach Kirby Smart said it last month, and they didn’t buy it Sunday night when Travis Kelce said it after the Chiefs won Super Bowl 57.
Kansas City rallied to beat the Philadelphia Eagles, 38-35, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona in an incredible game that became an instant Super Bowl classic.
And afterward, Kelce delivered yet another WWE-style rant. But the Chiefs tight end repeatedly claimed that no one believed in Kansas City and no one picked the team to win the Super Bowl.
Sure, plenty of people, like FOX’s broadcast crew, picked the favorite Eagles to win it all, but so many others — including some of us here at For The Win – went with the Chiefs. A Patrick Mahomes-led offense is awfully hard to doubt, especially after winning the 2019-20 Super Bowl and the AFC West title the last seven consecutive years.
Travis Kelce is PUMPED pic.twitter.com/7vybhjoFAk
— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) February 13, 2023
Kelce’s comments were awfully similar to what Smart said in January after the Bulldogs won their second consecutive championship, claiming everyone also doubted them. Again, ridiculous when Georgia was a title favorite throughout the season and its 25-year-old quarterback was still in red and black.
Kirby Smart says “everybody doubted (Georgia) to start the year.”
News to me. pic.twitter.com/EZtF0naSHu
— CJ Vogel (@CJVogel_TFB) January 10, 2023
Of course, football fans didn’t miss a beat.
When Kelce said everyone doubted the Chiefs, they were quick to make jokes about Smart and Georgia...
Kirby Smart 🤝 Travis Kelce
Falsely believing no
one believed in you— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) February 13, 2023
Travis Kelce must have heard from the same folks that told Kirby Smart that Georgia would finish 5-7.
“No one picked us to win this”
We need to find these people ASAP
— Bryce Koon (@bryce_koon) February 13, 2023
Kirby Smart Travis Kelce
🤝
Pretending you were ever doubted— Josh Callaway (@JoshMCallaway) February 13, 2023
Drinking that Kirby smart water https://t.co/iC97vux8Ie
— Lani ⚖️🦂 (@JusCallMeLani) February 13, 2023
Lol Kelce must have Kirby Smart in his ear, everybody knows that everyone doubted the chiefs nobody believed in them – true underdog tale 🤡😂
— Uninformed Frog (@uninformedfrog) February 13, 2023
Travis Kelce doing his best Kirby Smart, claiming not a single person picked the perennial Super Bowl favorite Chiefs to win this year.
— Austin Pendergist (@apthirteen) February 13, 2023
Travis Kelce, after Kirby Smart,
winning his 2nd after his 2nd
Super Bowl straight national
in 4 years championship
🤝
“Nobody believed in us”— Ben Stevens (@BenScottStevens) February 13, 2023
Did Kirby Smart tell Travis Kelce no one believed in the Chiefs?
— Anish Shroff (@AnishESPN) February 13, 2023
I wanna know what Kirby Smart said to the Chiefs before this game. https://t.co/CbZzg96Qym
— Ranch Racoon Pablo (@PabloEscoburner) February 13, 2023
Kirby Smart also told the Chiefs everyone doubted them.
— Joseph Hoyt (@JoeJHoyt) February 13, 2023
Travis Kelce went to the Kirby Smart school of fake underdog narratives
— Chase Dawg (@ChaseDawg2) February 13, 2023
Kirby Smart: https://t.co/cAm0nPdNGT pic.twitter.com/7voCtpLw6T
— The Dawgzilla (@TheDawgzilla) February 13, 2023
