On SNL Monologue, Super Bowl winner Travis praises Kelce Pot

Smoking pot can get you suspended from a team — but you can still win the Super Bowl twice, Travis Kelce said in so many words during his monologue on NBC’s Saturday Night Live (SNL) show Sunday night .

With a second Super Bowl title under his belt, Kelce became the 34th athlete to host SNL, joining the ranks of athletes like Michael Jordan, Tom Brady and Ronda Rousey, ESPN reports. The Kelce family attended the taping of SNL at Studio 8H in Manhattan.

Philadelphia Eagles center and Kelce’s brother Jason joined for one of the skits on SNL. The brothers were one of the hot topics of Super Bowl week in Glendale, Arizona – after all, they had to compete against each other. Both brothers started the game with a Super Bowl ring, but younger brother Travis was the one who got away with a second ring in a 38-35 nailbiter.

“Jason and I have played soccer together since we were kids, and he’s always been better than me at everything,” Kelce said during his monologue. “In high school, he was an honors student. And I got kicked off the team for failing French. And English too. But French sounds much better. And then when we were in college, I actually got kicked off the team for testing positive for marijuana. So it just shows you, if you smoke weed and do badly in school, you can win the Super Bowl twice.”

Kelce said his mother gave him and his brother a ride home after Super Bowl LVII, resulting in an awkward drive.

Kelce has been smoking weed for a while since he gambled in college. In 2010, Kelce was suspended from playing for the University of Cincinnati Bearcats for a full year after testing positive for THC. “I got kicked off the team for having a little too much fun off the field,” he said, as reported by The Kansas City Star. He nearly “gave up football” over the ordeal, but the incident doesn’t seem to have affected his attitude towards cannabis.

But thankfully, Kelce didn’t stray from his path to the Super Bowl and continued to play despite the setback of missing a full year. The Enquirer reported in 2021 that the Bearcats turned Kelce into a tight end. The rest is history.

Pot and the NFL

Numerous former National Football League (NFL) players have spoken to High Times about the benefits of pot, including Ricky Williams, Eben Britton, Kyle Turley, Jake Plummer, and the list goes on. Many of them have invested in cannabis brands.

Things are slowly changing when it comes to cannabis in the NFL. As of April 18, 2021, NFL players will no longer have to fret about testing positive for cannabis on random league drug tests.

It’s a new era in the NFL thanks to a new collective bargaining agreement negotiated last year that set out a new drug policy for the league.

The NFL announced in a Feb. 1 press release that it would provide $1 million to two different researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Regina (UR) in Canada. Both research groups will focus on how cannabinoids can help with general pain management, with some other targeted studies.

Players like the Kelce brothers don’t have to worry as much about testing positive for pot these days.