Jason Kelce’s words regarding the National Football League carry weight after 13 seasons with the Eagles and a Super Bowl title.
Now, through the “New Heights” show with his brother Travis Kelce, he helps shape the NFL’s biggest weekly conversations.
That made his latest warning sharper, as he questioned whether the league’s growing spread of non-Sunday games is weakening the habit that made football feel like an event.
Jason Kelce worries NFL is drifting from Sunday roots
Speaking on the latest episode of the “New Heights” show, Kelce said: “Sunday is the day of football, right? Outside of going to church in the morning, if you’re still religious and you do that, Sunday is when so many games happen and that’s what you grow up in.
“You gear your entire week around watching football on Sunday. It’s an institution at this point, the NFL playing games on Sunday. With every day that we keep adding in there, we’re getting away from that just a little bit.”
The 38-year-old then added: “And I worry because I think one of the reasons the game got so popular and big was because it was an event. Sunday is the NFL and everybody sets their week apart to tune into their games that were happening on Sunday, and you’re watching kind of all of them now take place across the Sunday ticket, right? I worry that we’re getting away from that just a little bit.”
The NFL has recently leaned further into Thursday, Friday, holiday, international and streaming windows.
Kelce’s concern is simple: while that shift can mean more revenue, it can also make the sport feel less like a weekly institution.
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