Jason Kelce

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Jason Kelce, Eagles Center, discusses climbing Mt.Kilimanjaro and "Hungry Dogs Run Faster"

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00:00Who else climbed with you guys?

00:01So it was me, Chris, Bo, and Haloti Nata were the four guys that have played with the Eagles.

00:06And Haloti?

00:06They said Haloti and Bo were the two heaviest guys that they've ever seen climb the mountain.

00:10And he announced his retirement at the peak, at the summit.

00:14After the climb, the mountain is now $16,000.

00:19Right over here is Jason Kelsey.

00:21How you doing so far?

00:24You enjoying the offseason?

00:26Yeah, it's good.

00:26We just started up again about two weeks ago.

00:29This week was the first week on the field with the coaches.

00:32So, you know, we're kind of back at it.

00:34It kind of seems like there's really not any sort of real offseason these days.

00:38The nature of the beast is that you just keep at it.

00:41Yeah, especially when you're playing playoff games and stuff like that.

00:43It shortens down.

00:45You know, we're probably seven months out of the year working.

00:49But, you know, that's pretty intensive work for seven months.

00:53Jason, is it a case of, I mean, is this sort of better that way?

00:56Because you've got to do more getting up to speed if you take too much time off.

01:02And if you kind of sort of keep at it, you're always just a tick off, you know, fighting weight, basically.

01:08Yeah, I think most guys lift year-round pretty much.

01:10I mean, you'll take a few weeks off here or there, go on vacation, whatnot.

01:13But most guys are always staying in shape.

01:15This time of the year is especially important for all the new free agents that we got in,

01:18all the guys that are trying to learn the terminology, the new playbooks.

01:22Well, your brother's, like, one of the best tight ends in the league.

01:26He does a great commercial, by the way.

01:28But he's tackling an eagle in that commercial.

01:31Or, you know, have we talked about this yet?

01:33He's dancing in the commercials, the commercial that I'm talking about,

01:36where he's sort of fantasizing and he's doing, like, an end zone dance.

01:39And then you realize that he's, like, standing in the middle of a store or whatever.

01:43So I wanted to ask you, because you guys are both at the top of your games

01:46and the top of your positions, who's the actual better athlete?

01:49Oh, Travis is not even close.

01:50Oh, right.

01:51Not even close.

01:53You got to call him as you see him.

01:55Yeah, yeah.

01:56Honestly, he's living it out in fantasy and you're doing it.

01:59Yeah, yeah.

02:00No, he's a special athlete and he always has been,

02:03even no matter what it was, basketball, baseball.

02:06You know, he just had a knack for sports.

02:10I think that, you know, I've always been big, fast, and strong.

02:13But the type of athlete he is, how fluid he is, the way he moves,

02:16his ability to change direction and things like that.

02:19But in spatial awareness, I mean, he's a tremendous athlete.

02:25Jason, you and Nick share something in common.

02:27You guys have both climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

02:30You climbed Mount Kilimanjaro?

02:31I did.

02:32Yeah, I did it for charity as well.

02:33The organization you guys did it with was Chris Long and Bo Allen.

02:36The Water Boys is a fantastic organization.

02:38And, you know, when I did it, I thought I never want to do it again.

02:43Same here.

02:44Yeah.

02:45It's the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

02:48But now it's been several years and I want to do it again.

02:51And part of the reason why I want to do it again is because of the work you guys have done

02:55for such a great organization.

02:57And I love philanthropic climbs at all.

03:00And to do it and make it that challenging is really impressive.

03:03Tell me your impressions of the climb itself.

03:06Same as you.

03:06The moment I started going up that last night, about halfway through, I was like, what in

03:11the hell am I doing?

03:13You're in the pitch black.

03:14You're going.

03:16What route did you go up?

03:18We did Ombwe.

03:19Ombwe?

03:19Yeah.

03:19We did Rongai, which is the only one from, like, the north side.

03:23Yes.

03:24It's the shortest, but I think.

03:25Is it steeper?

03:26I think it's at the top.

03:27It's a little bit steeper.

03:28Because everyone says it's, like Nick was saying, that basically as climbs go, it's a gradual.

03:33But there was one route that at the end, that's probably what you did, that it becomes

03:37a lot steeper.

03:37The summit is the hardest part of the climb.

03:40And you're already tapped out because you've done a climb for several days in a row.

03:43And then it becomes the steepest part at the highest elevation.

03:47Oh, that's wonderful.

03:48I don't know if it's any steeper.

03:49I shouldn't say that.

03:50But you do have to, once you get to the top, you don't go right to the peaks.

03:52You have to, like, walk around to the other side of the peak, which is a little bit

03:56more of, like, another two hours once you're already at the top, which is kind of like,

03:59you know, why in the heck am I?

04:01Are you walking?

04:01I should already be here.

04:02Is that, so you summit, like, a daybreak?

04:06So you get up at midnight.

04:07Okay.

04:08Before, that's what we did on this route.

04:10You have a headlamp on.

04:11It's the blackest of black you've ever seen.

04:13I mean, there's not a light.

04:15On a mountain.

04:16Yeah.

04:16And you just start making your ascent.

04:18And at this point, it's a little bit too steep for, like, you know, guys like me to go

04:23straight up.

04:23I mean, the porters and guys who do this, I mean, there's nothing to them.

04:26They're walking up and down like it's just another day of work.

04:29Bastards.

04:30But for us, we go, like, kind of, like, sideways in these skip backs.

04:34And it took us seven and a half hours to get to Gilman's Point, which was the top of the

04:39wrong guy route.

04:40And then we had to walk another two, two and a half hours to the peak.

04:43So I got to the peak around 10 o'clock, 10 a.m.

04:46Who else climbed with you guys?

04:47So it was me, Chris, Bo, and Haloti Nata were the four guys that have played with the

04:51Eagles.

04:52And Haloti?

04:52They said Haloti and Bo were the two heaviest guys that they've ever seen climb the mountain.

04:56And he announced his retirement at the peak, at the summit.

05:00After the climb, the mountain is now 16,000.

05:05As we're sitting here talking to you, the texts are coming in.

05:07And I wanted to find out what you hear most.

05:10Do you hear hungry dogs, what is it, hungry dogs run faster?

05:14Yeah.

05:15Okay.

05:15Or if I don't eat breakfast, I'm pissed off?

05:18Yeah.

05:19Or from that speech, there were several highlights.

05:22Do people just yell those out to you sometimes?

05:24Absolutely.

05:25Okay.

05:25Which one do you hear most?

05:27Um, you know, I probably, I was actually surprised nobody this morning asked if I ate breakfast

05:33in the Bronx.

05:35You've heard it.

05:36Yeah, right.

05:37Oh, thank you.

05:38You know, but, uh, no, the, um, I probably hear hungry dogs, I probably hear hungry dogs

05:43run faster.

05:44Yeah.

05:44And that's not just from, I mean, that's still a mantra of Jeff Stoutland.

05:47I mean, he was just grilling some of the younger guys with it today and, or, uh, not today,

05:52but, uh, yesterday about, you know, we got some rookies coming in here.

05:55We got some, uh, new free agent signings.

05:57You want to talk about, you know, hungry dogs and he's trying to motivate people with it.

06:01I mean, it's, it's something that, uh, you know, was such a big part, I think with the

06:07team and the city and it kind of all correlated together that, um, I probably hear that one

06:11the most.

06:12That's Jason Kelsey.

06:13Yeah.

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