Andy Reid and Travis Kelce update their futures with the Kansas City Chiefs

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Two key pieces to the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl team will be back for another go in 2024.

Throughout the 2023 season, there was speculation that this would be the last dance for head coach Andy Reid and tight end Travis Kelce.

However, both men put any talks about retirement to bed following their victory on Sunday as they celebrate becoming the first team since 2004 to repeat as world champions.

Kelce has gone through several surgeries over the past few years and the legendary tight end previously said he thinks about retirement more often than we know.

Reid, meanwhile, will turn 66 next month and has been a head coach in this league since 1999.

Reid and Kelce butting heads?

In any family, there will be fighting.

On Sunday, we saw Kelce bump Andy Reid on the sidelines in frustration after the Chiefs turned the ball over in the red zone.

It isn’t the first time both players clashed as they went at it during the regular season in December, with Reid telling his coaches not to give Kelce his helmet.

Reid talked about the incident between himself and Kelce on Sunday after the game.

“He caught me off balance,” Reid said, indicating the contact was worse than it looked.

“I wasn’t watching. He was really coming over [and saying], ‘Just put me in, I’ll score. I’ll score.’ So, that’s really what it was. I love that. It’s not the first time. I appreciate him.”

Here’s what Kelce had to say about it.

“I didn’t care about my catches,” he said. “I just wanted to … I wanted the score to be different. Coach has asked us to speak our minds, and I just wanted to let him know how much passion I had for this team.”

What’s their motivation for returning?

When you look at Kelce and Reid’s resumes, it’d be easy to say that neither has anything left to prove.

However, winning becomes infectious, and it feels as though both men are keen to prove they’re the best team ever.

Another Super Bowl victory for Kelce would move him into a tie with Rob Gronkowski for the most all-time by a tight end (four).

His third world championship puts him in a tie for second with Shannon Sharpe, who won back-to-back titles with the Denver Broncos in the late 90s and one with Baltimore in 2000.

If Reid can lead KC to another title, it’d also be his fourth as a head coach, moving him into a tie for second all-time alongside former Pittsburgh Steelers legend Chuck Noll.

That would also put him within two of Bill Belichick for the most all-time.

After winning a third ring on Sunday, Kelce said he’s hungry for more.

“This is a once in a lifetime opportunity that I’ve been able to go through three times now, and it gets sweeter and sweeter every time. You can call us a dynasty. You can call us whatever you want. I know what we’ve got is something more special than really what you’ve seen in the NFL.”

In 2024, Reid will enter year five of a six-year extension which he signed in 2019.

Kelce signed a four-year extension with KC in 2020 and will become an unrestricted free agent in 2026 when he’s 37.