Of all the things you expect to hear coming from a football player in a live post-game interview, the 9 words uttered by Kansas City Chiefs tight end (and apparently world-famous linguist) Travis Kelce, might be the least likely to ever be screamed:
“Know yo role and shut yo mouth, you jabroni!"
Was he mad at the interviewer?
The opponent?
The mayor?
What, you say?
The mayor?
BINGO!
Somehow, the stench of an “attention thirsty” politician in Cincinnati matriculated its way onto the same grounds where Hank Stram, Lenny Dawson, Derrick Thomas, and yes, Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, became famous.
The mayor.
What prompted the “Jabroni” response from number 87?
The now infamous “proclamation” made by Cincinnati Mayor, Aftab Pureval, where he called GEHA Field (Arrowhead Stadium) “Burrowhead” Stadium, and then made a comment about Mahomes needing to take a paternity test to see if Joe Borrow was his “father,” has been rightly ridiculed mercifully by football and non-football fans alike.
Point made.
The end, right?
Nope.
Missouri Representative Mark Alford couldn’t help himself from jumping into the same quicksand Pureval did. He chose the House floor to troll the Queen City’s mayor, calling him, “Mayor Jabroni.”
He didn’t stop there.
He went on to call last year’s AFC Super Bowl representative, “The Bungles.”
Well then.
The hits just keep coming.
There’s no doubt the verbal firestorm started when Bengals defensive back, Mike Hilton, arguably the best slot corner in the league, made the “See you in Burrowhead” comment while mic’d up on the field in the heat of the moment after Cincinnati’s big win the week before on the road in Buffalo.
Probably not a good idea to say that to a quarterback and a team that has turned the AFC Championship game the last 5 years into the Kansas City Invitational.
Still, you can understand how any player, even one as highly respected as Hilton, might pop off when emotions run high on the field just two games away from potentially hoisting the Lombardi Trophy.
What you can’t understand is why politicians aren’t bright enough to figure out that there are times in all our lives (gasp!) when nobody cares what they think and would rather they just go back to their handshaking and bloviating at the local town hall and then calling it a night with a martini at the local “look at me” establishment.
It's truly baffling and 100% throw up in your mouth worthy.
Who knew that after a nail-biting AFC Championship game, we’d all have not “one” but “two” Jabroni’s to talk about.
Politicians.
Please hear all of us when we say, “Know yo role and shut yo mouth, you jabroni!"
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