Jason Kelce is about to make one Kansas City Chiefs fan happy!
As he partied the night away after brother Travis Kelce and his team’s 2024 Super Bowl win, the Philadelphia Eagles star wore a yellow and red luchador mask — which he credited on his New heights podcast earlier this week to take the celebration to the “next level.”
The mask turns out to belong to a Dallas eighth grader named Elijah Smith, who wants his piece of Super Bowl 2024 history back.
“Operation ‘Give Elijah his mask back’ is underway!” Kelce, 36 years old, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Friday morning link to Dallas-Fort Worth station KXAS-TV news. “I appreciate everyone bringing this to my attention and look forward to reuniting Elijah with his mask. Your mask really brings great wealth, I owe you a lot of time, I’m sorry it was misappropriated.”
Jason Kelce Says Super Bowl After Party Went ‘Next Level’ After Finding Luchador Mask: ‘I Transformed’
While Kelce claimed on his podcast that he found the mask on the floor of the nightclub, Smith disagreed.
“I gave him my mask and then he dropped it and then he picked it up again,” Smith told the station. “Then I got a picture of him wearing it and then I was just hanging next to them for five to 10 minutes, they were dancing and everything.”
But when it came time for the high schooler to pick up his mask — which he says has brought him good luck in the three previous Chiefs Super Bowl games he’s attended with his parents — Kelce had already moved on to the next party.
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“I saw Instagram footage this week of him wearing it to the next afterparty he went to, so apparently he never took it off all night,” Smith said, according to the outlet.
For Kelce, the mask not only complemented his situation in the yellow and red Chiefs jumpsuit, but also added to his experience of celebrating his brother and the Chiefs victory.
“It didn’t start going to the next level until I found that luchador mask,” the father of three said on a podcast he co-hosts with his brother. “There’s something about finding that luchador mask that really changed the night. It was as if I had transformed.”
But for Smith, the mask has sentimental value.
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The teenager’s parents, Thad and Sarah Smith, are longtime friends of Chiefs president and CEO Clark Hunt and his wife, Tavia, his mother noted in an Instagram post that included her own photos from an after party in Las Vegas.
Last year, while the family was celebrating the Chiefs’ 2023 Super Bowl win against the Eagles, Elijah had Chiefs cornerback Trent McDuffie sign the mask and “it has a big autograph on the side,” Elijah said.
Now that Jason is ready to return the special mask to its rightful owner, Elijah has one last request: “It would be pretty cool if you signed it and sent it back,” he said.
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