{"id":130362,"date":"2025-12-14T12:53:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=130362"},"modified":"2025-12-14T12:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:53:43","slug":"%f0%9f%98%af%f0%9f%98%af-shocking-news-nfl-announces-travis-kelce-punishment-decision-after-chiefs-texans-while-the-leagues-ruling-appears-final-reactions-are-already-pouring-in-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=130362","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\ude2f\ud83d\ude2f Shocking news!! NFL Announces Travis Kelce Punishment Decision After Chiefs\u2013Texans. While the league\u2019s ruling appears final, reactions are already pouring in from both sides. Did the NFL get this call right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-content entry-content\">\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"has-video wp-caption \">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2248776995-1-2.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2248776995-1-2.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2248776995-1-2.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2248776995-1-2.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Travis Kelce, Kansas City Chiefs.\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"942\" data-dom-ready-time=\"1302\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Saturday, December 13, the NFL announced their punishment decision on\u00a0Travis Kelce\u00a0of the\u00a0Kansas City Chiefs\u00a0for something Kelce did after the team\u2019s\u00a020-10 loss\u00a0to the\u00a0Houston Texans\u00a0on Sunday, December 7.<\/p>\n<p>As for what Kelce did that would warrant a punishment, following the loss to the Texans, the tight end declined interview requests,\u00a0according to a report from Jesse Newell of The Athletic. That\u2019s a violation of the NFL\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk, \u201cAll players (except those in the concussion protocol) are required by the NFL to speak to reporters after every game.\u201d Plus, Florio says it\u2019s happened before.<em> \u201cIt\u2019s not the first time Kelce has declined to talk this year, either after a game or during the week,\u201d he noted, adding that \u201call players must be available once during the days preceding each game, at a podium or in the locker room.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Articles \/ Paragraph Links\">So, turning down interviews after multiple games would put Kelce in the hot seat with the NFL even more, because it wasn\u2019t a one-time violation. Now, the NFL has made its decision on what they\u2019re doing about Kelce\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>NFL Announces Kansas City Chiefs and Travis Kelce Decision<\/h2>\n<div id=\"a63612b9933311fdcffbd95b29ad21a4\" class=\"embed_container\">\n<div class=\"lazy-embed lazy-embed--ssr embed-instagram-com lazy-embed--loaded\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DR5F06ej0ED\/\"><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DR5F06ej0ED\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=656&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fheavy.com&amp;rp=%2Fsports%2Fnfl%2Fkansas-city-chiefs%2Fnfl-announces-travis-kelce-punishment-decision%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A242819.40000000037%7D\" height=\"1168\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Articles \/ Paragraph Links\">It\u2019s Kelce\u2019s lucky day, because on Saturday, December 13, the\u00a0NFL handed out a handful of punishments\u00a0for players who broke the rules in Week 14, and Kelce wasn\u2019t on the tally. So, the soon-to-be-husband of Taylor Swift got off clean.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Articles \/ Paragraph Links\">No Kansas City Chiefs players were punished for incidents against the Texans, and Houston also didn\u2019t get any discipline from the league. So, call it a clean game.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Articles \/ Paragraph Links\">While Kelce didn\u2019t talk to the media after the loss, the 36-year-old did open up about his frustration over the defeat on his \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast with his brother, Jason.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Travis Kelce Discusses Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 Loss to Houston Texans<\/h2>\n<p><em>\u201cYou put in all this \u2026 work and hope that it pays off,\u201d\u00a0he said on the podcast. \u201cAnd right now, it\u2019s just for whatever \u2026 reason, man, it\u2019s little things. I feel like I\u2019ve always had the answers in years past. And this year, I just can\u2019t find them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI keep thinking if I show up to work and I put in the work and I fix the issues through my practice habits and through perfecting the game plan and my fundamentals and what I\u2019m being taught, and go out there and try and play \u2026 for my guys next to me, it\u2019s all going to come together like it has in years past. And this year it is just not, man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, it\u2019s been a difficult year for\u00a0Patrick Mahomes\u00a0and the Chiefs. Kansas City has a\u00a06-7 record\u00a0going into their Sunday, December 14, game against the\u00a09-4 Chargers, and they\u2019re underdogs.<\/p>\n<p>But, if the Chiefs do win, they keep their playoff hope alive.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the\u00a0Chargers\u00a0game,\u00a0according to NFL research, the team has a 13% chance of making the postseason, and if they come out with a victory, that increases to 19%. But, if they fall to the Chargers, their probability of winning drops to less than one percent, and they\u2019ll be out for good.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, December 13, the NFL announced their punishment decision on\u00a0Travis Kelce\u00a0of the\u00a0Kansas City Chiefs\u00a0for something Kelce did after the team\u2019s\u00a020-10 loss\u00a0to the\u00a0Houston Texans\u00a0on Sunday, December 7&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\ud83d\ude2f\ud83d\ude2f Shocking news!! 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