Travis Kelce is avoiding the Las Vegas Strip and the distractions of Sin City before the Super Bowl on Sunday – but predicts that it will become an unofficial home of football’s ultimate game.
Kelce and the Chiefs meet the 49ers on Sunday in the first ever Super Bowl in Vegas, with the tight end looking to go back-to-back after last year’s success over the Philadelphia Eagles and his brother, Jason.
The brothers reunited in Vegas this week to record a Super Bowl preview episode of their New Heights podcast and while Jason is free to indulge in the fun the city has to offer, Travis is doing his best to lay low.
‘We’ve got one week, we do what we need to do then we can party in Vegas for the rest of our lives,’ the younger Kelce brother said. ‘Everybody is pretty motivated and locked in at the task at hand. It’s wild being out here in Vegas.’
Jason then asked Travis about whether players are allowed to gamble in Vegas before the game.
Travis Kelce jokes the Chiefs can party in Vegas forever if they win the Super Bowl on Sunday
Kelce said his team are happy to avoid the distractions of Sin City before Sunday’s showdown
Kelce was talking to his brother, Jason, as part of their New Heights Super Bowl preview show
Travis and his Chiefs team are staying 30 minutes away from The Strip before the Super Bowl
‘You definitely can’t gamble. You might be able to walk in one (a casino), like if a restaurant is in one,’ he said. ‘I’m not going down the strip anytime until the game.
‘I feel like it is exciting, man – the first ever Super Bowl in Las Vegas, Nevada. The biggest entertainment Mecca in the world.
‘It is literally built for the biggest stages. This is nuts. This is insane. It just makes me want to win it that much more. makes me want to be on the right side of the history books – saying I won the first Vegas Super Bowl ever.
‘The NFL is gonna enjoy having this place as the home of the Super Bowl. So for it to be the first and just what we have been through as team, to get back to the mountain top, that expectation was set the minute we won it last year.
‘Fun ride up to this point, exciting opportunity and it makes you want to win it more than ever.’
The Chiefs and 49ers are staying around 30 minutes away from the heart of Vegas, in Henderson – a near 20 mile drive away – at the Westin Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa.
