The Philadelphia Eagles played their first game minus future Hall of Fame center Jason Kelce last Friday — a 34-29 win over the Green Bay Packers in São Paulo, Brazil — but he couldn’t stay away.
When Philadelphia, clinging to a two-point lead, got down to the Packers’ 1-yard line with 1:12 remaining, Kelce fired off a tweet.
“Tush push to end it!!!!!” he wrote on X.
Kelce, who now serves as an ESPN analyst on “Monday Night Countdown,” got the call right. But the play didn’t go as it normally does for the Eagles. The exchange between new center Cam Jurgens and quarterback Jalen Hurts wasn’t clean. The ball hit the ground, and an alert Saquon Barkley hopped on the fumble to avoid a near-turnover.
Kelce’s next post was Homer Simpson backpedaling into the bushes and out of sight.
The “Brotherly Shove” had only modest success in Week 1. There were four attempts total. Two failed, one was successfully converted, and the other led to an encroachment penalty on Green Bay that resulted in an Eagles first down.