Pat McAfee makes Andy Reid a hero for believing in Travis Kelce by ‘skirting’ the law

Former NFL player and media personality Pat McAfee recently made a bold prediction regarding the legalization of marijuana across the United States.

His comments came as he criticized the Dallas Cowboys for passing on Travis Kelce due to a failed drug test during his college years at the University of Cincinnati.

Kelce, now a star player for the Kansas City Chiefs, was suspended by the NCAA for a year after testing positive for marijuana.

“The NFL has always used marijuana as a leverage piece in the negotiations with players,” McAfee said on his show.

“The players will be like, ‘We want less offseason workouts because we feel like we’re getting beat up.’ And the NFL is like, ‘You want weed? We’re going to get 20 games.’ And the players association is like, ‘We’re not going to give all that up just for weed.’

But it feels like we’re nearing a place where marijuana is probably gonna get passed federally. You’d think someone with a brain would do that. It’s only a matter of time.

“That’s what I took from that Travis Kelce story. First of all, great answer. ‘I worked my ass off to do that. I was young, I’m sorry. I made a mistake.’

“But also, nowadays they’re like, ‘Heard you failed a weed test?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘Alright, thank you for being truthful, let’s move on.’

Thank god Andy Reid when he drafted Travis Kelce didn’t care. And thank God Andy Reid brought Patrick Mahomes in there because watching those two play football together has led to people robbing banks.

“Hopefully in the future, the NFL will be a better place by eliminating the marijuana test. The fact that that potentially slowed down a GOAT because of a mistake that was made when he was 19 and every other human is doing.”

Kelce recalled Combine interviews
In a podcast episode with his brother Jason, Kelce shared that this incident negatively impacted his interview with the Cowboys during the NFL Combine.

“At the Combine, I had some bad interviews,” Travis told New Heights.

“The Cowboys, they were kind of pressing me about having this red flag of missing a year.

“It ended really fast. I basically just said, ‘If you guys think I’m gonna be that kind of guy or you’re questioning if I’m still that person after everything that I’ve battled through to get to where I am now, from missing a season, then you guys probably go somewhere else and pick somebody else’.”