This KC Chiefs star player will appear on ManningCast for Monday Night Football
Between hosting Saturday Night Live, co-hosting an immensely popular podcast with his brother and the worldwide sensation he’s become through his relationship with Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce generally is recognized as the most prominent showman of the Chiefs.
Just the same, Kansas City defensive lineman Chris Jones is every bit the personality and entertainer Kelce is — something any Chiefs fan has seen about any time Jones sees a microphone or camera or takes the field.
Case in point among hundreds: circa Christmas 2017, when Jones somehow got going in the Chiefs’ locker room about his birthday being on July 3.
“When I was born, fireworks were popping and everything,” he said then, with his nearly perpetually bemused demeanor, adding, “It was a day of independence, and this beautiful spirit came into the world to not only change this world but do it in such a way that he brightens things around him.”
Which helps explain why the two-time All-Pro will be among the guests Monday night on the season debut of the ManningCast, The Star has learned, as the New York Jets visit the San Francisco 49ers.
The Omaha Productions sideshow alternative to Monday Night Football is hosted by former NFL quarterbacks and brothers Peyton and Eli Manning and broadcast on ESPN+ and ESPN2.
The show has won an Emmy in each of its first three seasons, and the attention lavished on it has included being spoofed on SNL.
Jones will be the third Chiefs player, behind Kelce and Patrick Mahomes, to take part in the show, which this year will feature at least one new element: Former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick will join the Manning brothers for what is expected to be the first half of each game.