During the first quarter of the Super Bowl LVIII showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce caused quite a stir when he ran up to head coach Andy Reid on the sideline following a turnover and screamed in his face, nearly knocking him over in the process. But legendary NFL quarterback Tom Brady doesn’t seem to think it was a big deal.
During the latest episode of his Let’s Go! podcast, Tom Brady downplayed the whole incident, calling it some “little family issues” and claiming that he went through many of those things himself during his own career.
“There’s always little family issues and of course I don’t mind seeing it because I was a part of a lot of those things,” Brady said according to Pro Football Talk. “Emotions are so high. You are definitely not centered and balanced. You’re not in a meditative state at that point. You are fully determined to go out there and to win. So I think a lot of the things that are said during the games, people should just let them fly off their back. And I actually think Coach Reid handled it just awesome, like he always does, because he just said, ‘I was a little off balance and Travis is such a competitor.’ And I love that because it just speaks to his leadership ability. . . .
“It speaks to the self-confidence that Coach Reid has in himself, too, because he doesn’t take that personally at all. He doesn’t look at that and feel like someone offended him. He takes it for what it is and doesn’t make it more than it is and doesn’t see someone’s trying to belittle him. Travis is not trying to do any of those things. He’s just trying to be fired up and stay in the moment.”
People had a lot to say about the incident on social media, but the greatest quarterback of all time seems to think the reaction was overblown.
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