Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce - Kylie on Super Bowl Suite Headstands, Odds Jason Goes Shirtless Again & FAFO Parenting | Ep. 9
Episode Date: February 6, 2025Kylie’s back for a new episode of Not Gonna Lie presented by Cinnamon Toast Crunch and starts the show off by checking out some brand new entries for the name of the NGL fan base (1:25). Some honora...ble mentions: “Kylie’s Fire Dogs” and “Kylie’s Lucky Spoons.” After that, Kylie debuts a brand new segment called “You Know What’s F*cked Up?” to respond to the headlines about a few Philadelphia area schools preemptively calling for a 2 hour delay the Monday morning after the Super Bowl (5:29). Then, Kylie weighs in with her predictions on some Non-Super Bowl Super Bowl props all about her NOLA experience, including the over-under on how many times Kylie will swear during the game, the odds Jason takes his shirt off in the Kelce suite and what New Orleans delicacy Kylie will get her hands on first (9:10). Later, Kylie reacts to a new parenting trend during “Doomscroll of the Week” that people are calling: FAFO Parenting. She talks about her and Jason’s parenting style and explains her thoughts on other popular parenting styles (21:11). Kylie then answers a bunch of your “Ask Me *Some* Things” questions about her Super Bowl experiences (25:50), her kids’ favorite Disney movies (31:14) and the song she almost walked out to for her wedding reception (33:25). Lastly, Kylie reflects on her whole Super Bowl LII experience ahead of the big game on Sunday (37:05). As always, you can find even more exclusive, never-before-seen clips on YouTube on Monday. Make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss a thing! . . . Support the Show: CINNAMON TOAST CRUNCH: Go grab your own box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch and pour the milk first! Visit www.cinnamontoastcrunch.com for more info! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Not going to lie. I swear my kids are having meetings that I don't know about to figure out
who's going to wake me up at night and how many times just to make sure that my sleep is interrupted.
Let's start this podcast.
Welcome back to Not Gonna Lie, a Wave Original brought to you by Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
I'm your host, Kylie Kelsey, Conflicted Eagles fan,
owner of multiple wooden spoons,
and I brought my OBs to a Superbowl one time,
and I do it again. As always, make sure you follow us on social at NGL with Kylie and subscribe to the Not
Gonna Lie YouTube channel.
Coming up on today's Super Bowl special, you're getting my first ever solo episode.
Yikes.
I said it before and I'll say it again.
With the Super Bowl only a few days away, life is not happening.
The Eagles are happening and the Chiefs.
Go Trav.
So since I can't focus on literally anything else right now,
I'm gonna talk to all of you for the next 45 minutes.
Oh my gosh, about all things Super Bowl.
A new parenting trend, my kids, Disney movie obsessions,
and of course more Super Bowl.
But first, last week I asked you guys to send in your best ideas for the name of the Not
Gonna Lie fan base.
No surprise here, you delivered from at tight end Forte on Twitter.
Can we call the NGL podcast listeners the outliers?
Honestly, not terrible.
Next up at Susie Shupa K5188.
This one's up for debate.
We're unsure on this end.
If it's the Chi Leets or the Chi Lights.
I am unsure as someone who,
as I've said maybe a million times, I am unsure how I feel about
my name being included in the fan base name because that feels so selfving. I don't like it. Okay. Yakgarf. Wow. Interesting name. Says fan base should be
called the 93 percenters. Not sure what you're referring to with the 93 percent. It also sounds
oddly familiar. So I think until I can put my finger on where that came from, we're going to leave that
one out.
Call us Kylie's fire dogs.
Uh, shout out to Bryce Harper and his banana bread from Fern Tella fan name, Kylie's lucky
spoons. from Fern Tella, fan name Kylie's Lucky Spoons. See the only problem with that Fern,
is that that suggests that my spoons are lucky
and we are still unsure
of whether or not the spoons are lucky,
but we will continue to knock on them just in case.
West Coast K. Eb wrote fan base name suggestion FAFOs. Honestly,
I'm going to need to find out. Are we calling these like FAFOs or are we calling these FAFOs
because my brain goes to FAFOs? That's what I default to and that's what I'm going with.
You know I'm never against that. Charlotte says at NGL with Kylie, Kylie's court, the court for short. You're
a pony. You didn't even know it. My dad actually popped into a FaceTime I was on with my mom
yesterday and just out of the blue with no context whatsoever said the Royal family. And I was like, great. What are you talking about? And he was like, the
royal family. And I was like, cool, still no context. And finally, he said, saying that that's what you should call your fan base, which honestly,
I'm very impressed by his creativity. I am anything just anywhere close to a suggestion of princess queen royalty duchess and again
unworthy. A lot of you also like the idea of keeping it as NGLers so we can add that to the
fan vote. And some people suggested we let my girls name the fans.
I don't know if you've seen the Late Show. They call it Late Night with Jason Kelsey.
The girls actually made a mascot for that show and then they were given the freedom to name it.
Do you want to know what its name is? Dragon McFartfartbuttbutt.
So I think it's safe to say we're just gonna,
we're gonna leave them out of it.
Stay tuned and make sure to follow us at NGL with Kylie
so you can vote when we put out the poll.
We want to know what you think.
Moving on, I'd like to use this special solo episode
to debut a brand new segment I'm calling
You Know What's Fucked Up.
There's of course been non-stop headlines about the Super Bowl this past week, but one
in particular really got me thinking.
Now that's fucked up.
The headline from 6ABC Philadelphia, three Philadelphia area school districts announced
delayed start for the day after the Eagles play in the Super Bowl. No. Uh, how about no? Now they claim the reasoning
is because kids will be up late watching the game, which can lead to quote, rough mornings, but holy jinx. Oh my Lord, let's not. What? Here's the deal. You regularly
will put a two hour, one or two hour delay or a complete day off on a snow day, the morning of the school day. So why are we issuing this two weeks in advance?
I can't get down with this. Here's the deal. The only way I'm getting down with this is if we can
retract this statement, okay? It's not a hard, we're definitely going to get a delay.
I think that it should be a warning
that you should call the hotline or check the news
the morning of Monday after the Superbowl
so that we don't have to make the jinxy decision.
Do I need to send you guys some spoons?
This feels so, we're jumping the gun.
I will say though, for the sake of the teachers, specifically the educators that are involved
in these situations, you could do them this solid.
Like I get that it will be rough for the parents, but then the
parents get to send them to school, the parents get to go to work. Because a lot of parents
still have to work on Monday at regular time. But I do understand that. I'm going to let
you in on a little theory. I truly believe that when you are in a bar on a Friday or
Saturday and there is someone in there that is just like absolutely popping off, just going buck wild, there's a 75% chance that they're a
nurse or an educator.
I'm just letting you know what my research has told me.
And I'm not even a bar person, but I'm telling you right now, all my nurses and my teachers back me up here.
This is not with a negative connotation.
This is me respecting the hustle of work hard, play harder.
So here's the deal.
I can get behind a delay on Monday,
but I need the school districts to issue it
on Sunday night, postgame, or Monday morning.
I think we can all agree on this.
Again, this is not that far-fetched.
We do it for snow days.
You just have to give the schools a warning now.
Cut the teachers a break.
We know they'll need it.
Queen Emma is asking, should the day after the Super Bowl
just be a holiday to avoid all of this?
Why the hell not?
And that does it for, you know what's fucked up.
Next up, we've got a Super Bowl predictions game
where none of the scenarios have anything to do with the
game itself.
Thank goodness.
So for example, instead of guessing how many yards Saquon is going to get, I'm going to
predict how many times I'll say fuck in the second quarter.
So Queen Emma has prepared a bunch of these made up props for my personal Super Bowl weekend
experience. Number one,
how many times will I text Jason, where are you this weekend in New Orleans? I'm going to say
two times. I luckily do not lose him often because he is usually at specifically when it comes to functions like this, he has
a schedule set where I know where he is. And if I don't know where he is, I know the people
who are with him and I've probably talked to them. And that sounds ridiculous, but hopefully we will be less ships passing in the night
where we will not need a, where are you text?
Hopefully I can just enjoy some time with my husband in New Orleans eating beignets
without a child saying, can you fill up my water bottle?
So I'm going with two.
Last year in Vegas, it happened a few more times.
Number two, what will be the color of my shirt on game day?
I have no idea.
I genuinely don't know yet.
I can pretty confidently say I will not be wearing red. Speaking of, a lot of fans
have suggestions for the girl shirts. Amber Elise said, the Go Trav shirts have to be
in Philly colors. I do believe that we've gone completely neutral on those shirts. I'm unsure, but they have been ordered so too late now.
But I appreciate the suggestions and I see where you're coming from.
Number three, how many times will I swear during the entirety of the game on Sunday?
I'm just suggesting an over under of a hundred. I would say over, over a hundred times. And specifically, which curse word will I say the most? My dad's
favorite one that I say, that's sarcasm. The only person I do not say the F word in front
of is my father. He has requested a no cursing episode. It's not this one, dad, I'm so sorry, plug your ears.
Fuck is going to be the front runner.
I am going to say fuck the most
and any iteration of, any version of fuck.
Fucking, fuck this, fuck that, what the fuck?
Holy fuck, fuck shit, god damn it, fuck.
All of those are options for what could happen.
Holy fucking shit.
Frequence while watching football.
When I am at a game, specifically at a game around other people, I prefer to curse more
quietly but not necessarily less.
Usually I'm watching the game in safe space, aka next to people or in earshot of people
who either feel similarly or know
that I curse like a sailor. So it's happening. And it would not be quite as loud as if I
were in my own living room, but still a substantial number of fucks. And the best part about that is that it's like a stream
of fucks whether it's going well or going poorly. So over 100 fucks at least. I'm so
sorry dad.
Number four, what are the odds of a video of Jason taking his shirt off during the game
goes viral?
I do think that he kind of...
I think he's moved on from that.
I think he was very much feeling the vibe of Bill's mafia when he did that.
He had gone out and enjoyed the tailgate.
I don't think he broke a table even though he wanted to. He was being at one with the people of Buffalo when he took his shirt off, even though it was in celebration of the chiefs.
My husband is very much someone who can just get down with a good fan base.
And I think Bill's Mafia has shown that they are just a good, passionate fan base.
That's why he let everyone see his, you know, chest.
I will say that our girls did see that after the fact.
And I believe it was, oh, actually they saw it live and my mom texted me and said that Ellie said, I could be misquoting this, but
it's something along the lines of why are dad's boobs out? So I think, I don't think
his shirt's coming off this time. It also helped that it was freezing cold in Buffalo. And so taking his shirt off was like
just like embracing the cold. Whereas in New Orleans, it's a dome, not as exciting to
disrobe. Number five, if the Super Bowl broadcast cuts to the Kelsey Suite,
will we see you hiding in a corner? Maybe.
Depending on how the game is going and at what point in the game you've caught me,
there's a pretty good chance I'll be standing in the corner.
If I'm doing like a headstand in the back,
like if you see feet in the back of the shot,
it's me doing a headstand thinking that like
if I get upside down, maybe that'll help.
Because I'll do anything.
I think I've made that clear.
Like a crazy person.
It's rational.
No, it's not.
I know that I've said a number of times that I am a stand person, but our family will be
sitting in a suite.
We will most likely be joining them, which makes me so happy because I've said this so
many times.
But when your family is so spread out and you only get to see them a select number of
times a year, even if you're not cheering in the same way, it's so much fun to see them and get to catch up in those little moments and get to get a good squeeze.
Number six, how many times will a fan shout, go birds at you while walking around New Orleans?
The over under is a thousand. I would say, oh, that's a good one. I would say over 500 times, under a thousand times.
I have faith in Eagles fans and I will be repping Eagles green in New Orleans.
So people will know where my loyalties lie.
But again, I love my brother-in-law and I'm cheering for him too.
I'm gonna make that abundantly clear.
There is a balancing act that's happening here.
So just respects it, Okay. Number seven, what will be the first
New Orleans delicacy I eat? Easy. I'll read you the finalists. I'm going to tell you right
now which one I'm going for. The finalists are beignets, gumbo, crawfish, jambalaya, po' boy, king cake. It's beignets. I had a beignet the last
time we were there. Beignets were delicious also. I don't know if it was divine intervention
or what, but last week there was someone who pops up on my For You page all the time. She reviews food everywhere that she goes and she was just in New Orleans and she had
a po' boy, a shrimp po' boy.
She poured this gravy on it.
I will be seeking that po' boy out.
That specific, I have it saved and I sent it to someone who
I will be with in New Orleans so that we can find it. Queen Emma asked, any of these kick
starting of pregnancy craving? I would say from that obnoxious rant, yes. Yes, they are. What wooden object will I knock on the most? Will I pack the wooden
spoons? I will be packing the wooden spoons just in case, but my go-to if I do not have wood present, this is so serious.
My go-to if I don't have a wooden object present is to knock on the backside of my head because
that's what you do.
I can't explain it.
It's just what you do.
There are quite a few fans concerned about the fact that the knock block is new. We have people commenting that we should not be touching it. I will keep
my hands off of it just in case. We can save it for another time, but what I will tell
you is that usually I do not discriminate. If it is truly would, I will knock on it.
That does it for my non-Super Bowl Super Bowl predictions.
Not gonna lie, I'm proud to admit to all of the NGL viewers
and listeners out there that I, Kylie Kelsey,
am a milk before cereal person.
I know that this is giving psychopath,
but I've been doing it this way for a very long time
because I do not like soggy cereal.
It's as simple as that.
I only pour the milk first so that I can take the box
to the table with me and pour it in layers
so that I pour one layer on top and I eat it.
And then I pour another layer and I eat it.
Does it make me consume way too much cereal?
Who cares?
I love the crunch, which is why
I love cinnamon Toast Crunch.
There you have it.
It's a better ratio, less mess, crunchier bites,
and a Cinnadust management system.
I rest my case.
Go grab your own box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch
and try pouring the milk first.
Now, before I get to all of your Super Bowl questions,
let's do a little doom scroll of the week.
This past week, I was actually doom scrolling Instagram and came across a post from the
scary mommy account titled, what is FAFO parenting?
The parenting style explained.
The caption says FAFO parenting, which stands for we know.
Fuck around and find out parenting is the act of having your kids experience the natural
consequences of their actions without getting too involved.
They also shared a TikTok from, hey, I'm Janelle.
To further explain, Queen Emma hit it.
They get their natural consequences and get to figure out the way through them. This weekend I took my kid camping for the first time with the Cub Scouts and we had a great time.
But at one point it was raining pretty hard. It was raining all day. It was real wet.
And the kids were all just playing around at the campsite and my son decided he didn't want to wear his rain jacket anymore.
Okay, that's up to you. I'm not fighting my kid on a jacket unless temperatures are
such that it could be dangerous to be without it. He got to decide for himself when he'd
had enough. He got to decide for himself when he needed to go find a new shirt and stop
playing and change. We pretty much do that with everything that there's not a safety
concern. If there's a safety concern, obviously they're not finding out from that.
Her bringing up jackets hits close to home. Elliot is very much in the camp right now
where she thinks she doesn't need one. Two weeks ago in Philadelphia, it was single digit
temperatures. We did have the discussions that turned into arguments about putting on our jacket, which resulted
in when I had had enough of the argument and clearly was not getting anywhere, my husband
so graciously tagged in to the discussion and absolutely nailed it with asking Ellie
if she would like to go outside on the front porch to feel how cold it was. So he opened
the front door, took her outside for just less than a minute. So no safety concern here.
Less than a minute, she's outside. She comes back in and she's like, it's cold out there. I'm like, great. Let's put your jacket on. And then guess what? She put her
jacket on. So, it was just a matter of that's one of those instances where, and my husband does this
all the time, where he will realize that I have reached the point of no return and that we're not getting anywhere. Then he will tag in and we do it sort of vice versa when someone needs
it, but he's very good at that.
There are also times where I discuss things with them about safety and that the reason
I don't want them to do things is for the purpose of their safety. Sometimes
I still get met with, well, I'm going to do it anyway. We tote this line once an injury
is sustained. We tote this line of, I'm going to give you comfort, but also I told you not to do that. I think there are
some misunderstandings about the idea of gentle parenting. I think it's a very wide spectrum
when it comes to gentle parenting where I've seen that there are people who gentle parent
in a way that their kids have no boundaries and are never told no. I just don't feel as though my kids would be
equipped to enter the world and hear no from other people, which is a legitimate answer
outside of our house if they don't receive it at home.
We don't meet people on that end of the gentle parenting side. But I've also seen quite a few people on my
algorithm discussing that it's not always this very coddley, spoiled situation where they just
get to do what they want. Sometimes it's just trying your best not to raise your voice,
making sure that you explain why you're telling them not to do
something or why you're asking them to do something, or even just explaining what the
consequences are going to be ahead of time, giving them an opportunity to receive information and
make a decision on their own. But also my kids are five, three and two.
So I will guide them in their decision making at this point in their life. And that does
it for Doom Scroll of the Week. All right, let's get to it. It's time for the Super Bowl
edition of Ask Me Some Things. We tried to do Ask Me Anything, but you guys really got in deep.
So we switched it to Ask Me Some Things because I like boundaries.
From Amy Goury, what was your favorite halftime performance?
This is so easy.
It was Rihanna. The Rihanna halftime performance at the Arizona Super Bowl was, I will start with
the negative. She shouldn't have been wearing red. That felt biased. I didn't like it. From what I
understand, she is not a Chiefs fan. So why were we wearing red? Moving on, the reason it's my favorite halftime performance
is because Wyatt was living her absolute best life.
It was one of the moments where she just
let the freak flag fly.
I don't know, she just had her stadium headphones on and her
Passie in her mouth and she was just, I mean, girl was getting after it.
We, of course, obviously she had heard songs by Rihanna leading up to that,
but it wasn't enough where she knew lyrics or could recognize those songs. It was hilarious.
those songs. It was hilarious. I mean, whenever you get in a situation and your kids are experiencing that much joy, you are then, you're also experiencing that. You just can't help yourself. It was
incredible. So I'm going with Rihanna as my favorite halftime performance from those
Super Bowls that I've seen in person. From class of 22 Swift on Twitter, what is the best thing about being an Eagles fan?
My favorite thing about being an Eagles fan is the community it creates. I know that people outside
of the Eagles fan base have a lot of difficulty understanding our passion. And that's what I'm calling it.
I'm calling it passion.
But it is so ingrained in the city.
It's ingrained in our traditions.
It's ingrained in how we bond as a community.
Our tendencies in our fandom really lean into who we are as like a Philadelphia culture.
That being said, I think there is obviously a population of people who take it one step too far. I can acknowledge that. But if you
really look at it for what it is, people love to bring up the snowballs. People love to
bring up the batteries. People love to bring up how terrible we are to other teams. Players
who come to Philadelphia to play will tell you straight up that the
Philadelphia fans are batshit. We know it. We are aware. We embrace it. It is us. That being said,
removing the Eagles from our fandom, I do think there's a lot of other fan bases that can see our passion and
appreciate it because they feel passionately about their own teams that they cheer for.
So everyone wants to point the fingers at the Eagles because I think everyone loves
to hate our fan base. My husband said it perfectly. No one likes us. We don't care. Keep hating.
Do it. You're really, you're only fueling our fire. And sometimes you got to look in the mirror
and recognize that every fan base has those asshole fans. All right, we'll be back with more
Ask Me Some Things After These Messages from me.
Hey guys, Kylie again.
I'm back to interrupt your regularly scheduled Kylie programming to talk to you about my
favorite cereal, Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
And I got to tell you, no lie, this is not going to lie.
Cinnamon Toast Crunch has been my top pregnancy craving.
I love the idea of waking up, pouring cold milk into that bowl or mug,
and then getting layers of that crunchy,
cinnamony deliciousness.
And then when you're done,
it leaves you with a cool glass of cinnamon milk.
Are you kidding me?
Baby girl number four clearly can't get enough
of cinnamon toast crunch right now.
And I'll tell you, she's going to grow up
to be a milk first before cereal kind of girl.
And I support it.
Just like mama, go grab your own box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch
and pour the milk first.
You'll thank me later.
Just take the box to the table.
All right, let's keep the ask me some things theme going,
but now we've opened it up to some questions
beyond the Super Bowl.
First up from Jenna's scrapbook.
How many times a week do you have to watch
a Disney princess movie? Surprisingly
enough, the girls are not super into Disney princess movies. I would prefer to put on
a movie because I think that it loses their attention and then we can move on to reading
books or playing games with it on in the background. But they do like the very song heavy movies right now. For a while we were
untangled because that has a great soundtrack. We were very much on Ariel a while back, but
have not revisited for a few months. Bennett, I know, crazy. She's not even two. And homegirl wakes up and say, I watch Elsa. So last night for
a good 10 minutes, I was trying to figure out why she was telling me. Cat cross was
what she kept saying. Cat cross. And I could not figure out what she was saying. And finally she said, with Elsa. And then she said with Anna. And I said, are you saying
Kristoff? And she said, yes. So we are back in the frozen era in our house, which is fine.
We love to just belt it out a little bit. We've also been belting out the wicked soundtrack why it loves to find gravity and I'm not mad about it. Cynthia Arevo, you fucking
nailed that. Okay. Jason prefers the movies as do I, where it does not always involve a princess being saved by a man.
So we don't have to always lean into that storyline.
Ladies from Abby McRae 15, what genre of music do you typically like to listen to?
My go-to every single time if I am in the car by myself is early 2000s hip hop and R&B without fail
every single time.
Sometimes I will lean into some nineties and sometimes I will try and get a little closer
to current day.
But for the most part, early 2000s hip hop and R&B like Ludacris 50, they just hit. I love them. I love early 2000s hip hop and R&B. I love
R&B because that was the genre that my dad listened to a lot. So we would listen to a lot of like slow jams
It was it was good
I will say I tried my very best
to
Walk in to our wedding reception to
Chingy's right there and got vetoed immediately by my husband
so I tried. I have definitely branched out
since even dating Jason because Jason has such an eclectic taste for music. He really
opened up my eyes to some outstanding artists across significantly more genres because otherwise it would have
just been me and my early 2000s hip hop and R&B playlist on Spotify. Chilling with no,
not even a taste of Chris Stapleton or some of the other artists
that Jason has introduced me to that I have thoroughly
enjoyed. From mommy Alana, you mentioned that you coach
field hockey, are you planning on coaching your daughters
if they play sports?
I don't think so.
I don't think that I want to coach them because I will
happily go and play with them or practice
with them in their free time because I do think it's really important to put in those
extra minutes outside of your practices. I will happily go and do that with them. If
it's a sport that I don't know, I will try my best to learn it so that I can help them and give them feedback.
But even if they play field hockey, I do not want to coach them because I think it's so
beneficial to have that coach-player relationship.
When you get a really good coach in that situation, it can drastically impact not only your skill
level and how that improves, but also you might get life
lessons from that person that I do not have for you. Or I firmly believe that athletes
listen to their coaches sometimes better than they listen to their parents on the whole
life advice thing. So I do want them to have the experience of being
coached by other people and not necessarily coached by me. In terms of little league soccer
and stuff, I wouldn't be surprised if Jason taps into that. I think it would be absolutely
incredible to watch and I think it would be enjoyable for all.
But we'll have to see if that's in the cards. We're not quite there yet.
And now it's finally time to get honest in this week's edition of You Guessed It. Can I be honest,
before I lock in on Super Bowl 59, I thought I'd close this Super Bowl spectacular by throwing it
back to Super Bowl 52. Jason and I were due to be married the following April after Minnesota.
We jokingly called it his two-ring season because I got a ring, the first ring in preseason, a week into preseason when he proposed. And
then he got a ring at the end of the season at the Super Bowl and that we both got rings
in April. It was lovely. It was pretty crazy to, and then. And then Queen of is pointing out that he lost the ring in
chili. That is correct. He did. I have not let him live that down. I will always bring that back up.
It still stings. I think I'm just continuing to rub salt in the wound, but it is a wound that should
remain open for the pouring of salt
because of how ridiculous it is that he insisted that we put his actual Super Bowl ring in
a kiddie pool of chili. I can't. I love him so much. He's just so ridiculous. Oh God. What was it like leading up to the game for you guys
as a couple? I don't remember. I remember trying my best to manage all of the things
around our first Super Bowl because it is as if you're flying blind. People who have been there before, I was just talking to a friend the other
day who is now going to their third Super Bowl with the Eagles. It's so much easier now to know
what happens even if they're not sticking to the same timeline or the same number of passes
or the same ticket expectations. All of that is more easily managed because you've done
it before. We were flying blind for the Minnesota Super Bowl. It had been such a long time that
the Eagles organization had been back to a Super Bowl that it was new for everyone. Everyone was trying to figure it out. I think realistically,
they did an outstanding job. They made it as easy as possible for the families. I don't
remember leading up to the game outside of trying to manage the ticket requests that
we had, making
sure that all of our family was accounted for, for their hotels and their tickets, and
then passes, making sure that we distributed passes appropriately to whoever was going
to be there for certain events. Because every single event that happens for the team, a
welcome party, a postgame party, the pregame tailgate, all of those
things are passed. You must have a pass to get into those spaces and there are only a
certain number of passes available. They are divvied up between people in the organization
and the players and coaches. Then people have to trade amongst themselves to make sure that everyone has
the appropriate allotment for what they need personally. It's very fair in the way that
they first initially distribute, but then it just gets a little dicey with how quickly
you need to figure out how many people you have in every single situation. It gets very difficult. My favorite moment
from the game, I would love to tell you, but I blacked out. By blacked out, I do not mean
that I was intoxicated. I mean, I genuinely blacked out. What I do remember is that our seats were directly behind Brent Selick, a
former Eagles tight end. We were directly behind his family. When it got down to the
wire, I was getting texts from all of these people saying that they were already waiting in the
family corral.
So what happens is at the end of the game, there are two corrals in the tunnels for one
for one team and one for the other team.
And it's all of the family members who are passed to enter the field postgame for the
on-field celebration. It is like Hunger Games trying to get those passes,
first of all. Second, you are put into these corrals. Then if it's a tight game, you don't
know whether or not your corral is going to be let out onto the field, which is crazy.
All of a sudden, one of the corrals will just start moving or you're trying to see one of the rare TV screens that are in the bowels of the stadium where you
are currently being held. My superstitious ass couldn't leave my seat until I was absolutely
certain that we were going to be entering the field.
So naturally, Mrs. Selig was sitting in front of me and was like, are
you going to go? I think it was below the two minute warning or at the two minute warning.
I just remember saying to her, I can't leave my seat. Needless to say, when the clock hit zero and the Hail Mary pass hit the ground, I did a full sprint through
the Minnesota Stadium. I eventually made it onto the field and found Jason. I do remember
meeting up with him and then taking him to the corner so that he could wave to where
our family was sitting, but I was not leaving that seat. I wasn't going to do it. So I don't think anyone's
surprised about that. We were super fortunate that game. My parents came with us. My sister
was with us. And then all of Jason's family members were with us, including Travis, which
was really special. Because like I've said so many times, our families do not get to be all in one place very often. It
was so cool to come together for that. And also it ended up being a celebration. So
that was a lot of fun. I do remember how happy that felt. And I do remember
the very end of the celebrating, but everything else is a black hole.
And that does it for Can I Be Honest.
That also does it for this episode of Not Gonna Lie.
I'll be back next Thursday with a brand new episode and Not Gonna Lie, it's going to be
another special one.
Speaking of which, it's Valentine's Day next week and shocker. We never guessed this ahead of time
and I love that she nailed it.
I'm not a Valentine's Day person.
Regardless, I'd love to see what kinds
of Valentine's questions you guys have for me.
Send them into at NGL with Kylie
because plan is to have a pretty special guest.
Romance.
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