{"id":9962,"date":"2025-01-10T15:27:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=9962"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:27:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:27:41","slug":"breaking-news-travis-kelce-slams-rumor-the-chiefs-lost-a-game-on-purpose-to-kick-cincinnati-bengals-out-of-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=9962","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Travis Kelce Slams Rumor the Chiefs Lost a Game on Purpose to Kick Cincinnati Bengals Out of Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Travis Kelce<\/strong>\u00a0addressed the rumor that the Kansas City Chiefs threw a game in order to keep the Cincinnati Bengals out of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/01\/08\/14\/93870271-0-image-a-23_1736345446271.jpg\" alt=\"Travis Kelce slams claims the Chiefs deliberately lost to stop the Bengals  making the NFL playoffs | Daily Mail Online\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, the Chiefs lost a game against the Denver Broncos. The team rested some of their star players after already clinching a spot in the lead up to the 2025 Super Bowl. Their loss effectively shut the Bengals out of competing.<\/p>\n<p>During a new episode of his\u00a0<em>New Heights<\/em>\u00a0podcast,\u00a0<strong>Travis<\/strong>\u00a0made it very clear that their loss was not intentional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ain\u2019t scared of f-cking nobody,\u201d\u00a0<strong>Travis<\/strong>\u00a0told his brother and cohost\u00a0<strong>Jason<\/strong>\u00a0when he brought up the rumor. \u201cI wanted [the Bengals] in the f-cking playoffs. I want to slay every dragon one by one, like\u00a0<em>Mortal Kombat<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/photo\/2024\/1231\/r1433397_1296x729_16-9.jpg\" alt=\"Travis Kelce scoffs at idea Chiefs lost to end Bengals' hopes - ESPN\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He continued, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t even want this to be like we play the lowest seed. Just give me the best teams\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll go through every f-cking one of them, just giving them my best f-cking effor. I ain\u2019t scared of a single soul, man,\u201d he said, adding that he would play the Bengals \u201cat the Walmart parking lot\u201d during the offseason.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Travis<\/strong>\u00a0also paid the Bengals a compliment, saying, \u201cThe Bengals were a fun-ass f-cking team to watch there towards the end of the season. And it\u2019s a shame they didn\u2019t make it in the playoffs, because they would have made the playoffs that much f-cking crazier and that much more fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please enable cookies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kansas-city-chiefs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING NEWS: Travis Kelce Slams Rumor the Chiefs Lost a Game on Purpose to Kick Cincinnati Bengals Out of Playoffs - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=9962\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING NEWS: Travis Kelce Slams Rumor the Chiefs Lost a Game on Purpose to Kick Cincinnati Bengals Out of Playoffs - 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