Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce playfully trolled Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens’ courting after the couple raised eyebrows over who’s the easier “catch.”
Throughout the Wednesday, January 17, episode in their “New Heights” podcast, Jason, 36, published that Travis, 34, is nominated for Athlete of the Yr on the 2024 Other folks’s Selection Awards.
“Look at the company the Big Yeti is in. Coco Gauff. LeBron James,” Jason mentioned, whilst appearing the checklist of best athletes competing for the award. When Jason noticed Biles’ title, he joked, “How is Simone Biles on this … but her boyfriend isn’t?”
Travis set free fun, replying, “Owens?” He hinted that Owens’ play time as a security for the Inexperienced Bay Packers would possibly no longer had been sufficient to get him at the checklist. “He’s played some good ball over there, I guess,” Travis quipped.
Jason couldn’t forestall giggling, joking that it’s “so weird” that Biles, a four-time Olympic gold medalist, can be nominated and no longer her partner.
Travis additionally contemplated, “How am I in this?” ahead of his brother requested their listeners to vote for the Kansas Town Chiefs tight finish. “This is pretty cool. Let’s get this thing rigged. Let’s start voting up the Big Yeti,” Jason added.
The Kelce brothers’ remarks about Biles, 26, and Owens, 28, got here after Owens claimed that Biles landed him and no longer the opposite direction round.
“I always say that the men are the catch,” Owens declared on a December 2023 episode of “The Pivot” podcast. “She did [pull me], though, because I was fighting it. … At the time, I was afraid to commit. I was like, ‘This is my third year [in the NFL], I’m trying … it’s kind of early,’ but, you know, it happens when you least expect it.”
Owens defined that Biles messaged him at the relationship app Raya in 2020. He alleged that he didn’t know a lot concerning the gymnast after they began speaking. Simplest after Biles drove 45 mins to Houston, the place Owens lived, did they cross out.
Biles used to be provide for the podcast and laughed off her husband’s remarks. On the finish of the recording, she teased that during a “few years” she might be referred to as “Jonathan Owens’ wife” greater than he is referred to now as “Simone Biles’ husband.”
Lots of Biles’ fanatics, alternatively, have been outraged via Owens’ insinuation that his occupation is extra spectacular than his spouse’s. Biles is, finally, probably the most adorned Olympic gymnast in historical past.
The couple, who tied the knot in April 2023, didn’t give into any destructive feedback. As an alternative, they fueled the fireplace via revealing who they believe is the “better athlete” of their area.
“I think we’re good at our own sports,” Biles mentioned throughout an interview on Peacock’s Again That Yr Up in December 2023. “We’ve tried to pin each other against [one another] on, like, difficulty, ability and all that stuff. So, at the end of the day, gymnastics is harder — if he agrees or not.”
She confessed, “We fought over it a couple of times, and then we vowed once we got married, we wouldn’t talk about it again. But it keeps coming up every time, but he has done my workout in the gym and he can barely do it, and then I went to their NFL workout and I crushed it.”