Jason Kelce can’t cease carrying his new favourite merchandise of clothes — a standard French beret he picked up in Paris throughout the Olympics.
The sports activities star, 36, has been noticed a number of occasions donning the distinctive headwear whereas having fun with the Paris Olympics in France, and opted to put on it once more after returning to the U.S. to kick off his new TV gig.
“I’m nonetheless on Paris time, so I needed to go together with the Paris headdress,” Kelce defined throughout his look on ESPN’s NFL Countdown on Thursday, August 1.
Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast posted a photograph of him through X and poked enjoyable at his hat selection.
“Jason introduced the beret with him to work 😂,” reads the caption.
The retired Philadelphia Eagles participant was first snapped carrying the beret when he and spouse Kylie Kelce attended the U.S. girls’s subject hockey recreation towards Argentina on Saturday, July 27.
Questioned by the Related Press about the place he discovered the hat, Kelce revealed he purchased it at “a memento store.”
A day later, Kelce wore the hat in a healthful video shared through TikTok which featured Workforce USA girls’s rugby star, Ilona Maher, persuading the ex-NFL participant to grow to be her staff’s hype man.
“Ladies’s water polo has Taste Flav as their superfan,” Maher, 27, advised Kelce earlier than insisting he ought to throw his assist behind the rugby staff as a result of “you’re a lady dad.”
Kelce described Maher as “an awesome salesman” earlier than declaring, “I’m formally a fan of ladies’s rugby, Olympics!”
@ilonamaher We bought Jason Kelce @Workforce USA @paris2024 @Olympics @USA Rugby #jasonkelce
Kelce’s followers didn’t waste any time lightheartedly mocking his newfound love of the beret.
“The emotional assist beret is taking the place of his emotional assist flipflops,” one follower wrote through X, referring to a different clothes merchandise favored by Kelce.
Kelce has repeatedly been seen carrying his beloved flip-flops to a number of occasions, together with pink carpets, and incorporating them into pregame outfits.
He even went viral in November 2023 for selecting the open-toed sneakers in winter and defended himself on an episode of “New Heights,” which he hosts with brother Travis, 34.
“I put on flip-flops on a regular basis,” he mentioned throughout an episode launched the identical month. “I don’t even know why that is newsworthy. It’s my go-to.”
Calling the chatter about his sneakers “ridiculous,” Kelce defined that he doesn’t put on sandals outdoors in freezing temperatures for lengthy.
“Persons are like, ‘How might you survive on the market within the chilly?!’ I’m like, ‘Girl, I used to be at a lodge. I walked right into a bus,” he mentioned as Travis cracked up within the background. “Do you suppose I’m trenching by town of Kansas Metropolis in flip flops?! No!’ If I used to be doing that, I wouldn’t put on flip-flops.”