Jason Kelce has enjoyed a promising start to his media career after the conclusion of his playing career with the Philadelphia Eagles. Kelce not only hosts one of the biggest podcasts in the world, New Heights, with his brother Travis, but he also is a regular part of ESPN’s Monday Night Football broadcast and even has his own late-night show on the network.
Jason and Travis aren’t the only Kelces in the entertainment industry these days either. Jason’s wife, Kylie has a successful podcast of her own and was even a guest on the mega-popular Call Her Daddy Podcast.
In the episode, Kylie revealed that she’s not happy with a certain acronym, saying that a term commonly associated with the significant others of professional athletes WAG, “Wife and Girlfriend,” has a negative connotation.
“I think that it’s this suggestion that your spouse’s profession swallows you up as well,” Kylie told Alex Cooper, the host of Call Her Daddy.
“I have made a serious effort to make sure that … both Jason and I have made a serious effort to make sure that while he was playing, that it was clear that that was his job.
“In the same way that someone would go to work and come home and not necessarily talk about their entire day. You’re filing taxes. You’re doing spreadsheets. Like, you’re not coming home and telling your spouse about, like, the spreadsheet you worked out,” Kylie went on.
Kylie explained that WAG has a connotation of women only being with an athlete for his or her success or money.
“The vast majority, it’s so funny to me because it’s like, it is that stigma of, you’re with them because they make a lot of money or, you want designer bags or you want … you live in a mansion,” Kylie continued.
“There have been a number of people who have come to our house and they’re like, ‘Oh.’ I’m like again, not easily offended. I’m like, ‘Yep, that’s what you get.'”
It’ll be interesting to see if people scale back their use of the word moving forward.
About Qwame Skinner
Qwame Skinner has loved both writing and sports his entire life. In addition to his sports coverage at Comeback Media, Qwame writes novels, and his debut; The First Casualty, an adult fantasy, is out now.