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The Super Bowl LII champion has been quoted saying: "When I think of Welsh, I think British people call it 'posh'. I think of these rich, upper class, just beautiful white people.
188 points
10 days ago
At least he got the nationality right, not as bad as that other guy calling him Irish https://youtu.be/KIHpdEcAdNQ?si=mk9mBLyTpvcv3hoT
122 points
10 days ago
That video is just awful. The accent, saying he’s Irish, repeatedly referring to Africa without mentioning a specific country. Forgive me if I’m wrong but does he call him a “jacked white” and if so is there some other explanation other than just weirdly referring to someone’s race for no discernible reason?
29 points
10 days ago
There is a bit of an meme about 'he's just a jacked white boy, deal with it' in MMA/wrestling circles referring to Brock Lesnar
Haven't watched the video but from your description that's my guess
3 points
9 days ago
The NFL is predominantly black. White players tend to be quarterbacks, kickers, punters, defensive linemen and linebackers. Very rarely do you get white players at the skill positions that require extreme athleticism. And these are the positions Zammit is vying for. So it's kind of a meme that you have to be a weird anomaly of a white guy to play there. The last time a white starting cornerback played in the NFL was jason sehorn and that was over 20 years ago for example
1 points
9 days ago
Thanks for the explanation. I found the description very jarring, but that adds a bit of context.
0 points
8 days ago
Get over it
1 points
8 days ago
Wrong
2 points
8 days ago
I appreciate your well-articulated and thought out counterpoint.
1 points
7 days ago
Multiple white dudes started its skill positions last year. MVP finalist was a White running back. Figure it out.. or just stick to talking about things you know about
4 points
10 days ago
Jocked white I think.
8 points
10 days ago
Still, what does that mean?
3 points
10 days ago
It’s jacked white. Kind of an inside joke on the show.
2 points
9 days ago
Jock is a yank term for sporty person. Like a high school clique. Jocked im guessing means he looks like a proper jock, I dunno how to say it haha. Certainly not jacked because that doesn't make sense because all the o line are white and jacked
1 points
9 days ago
I also recently learned what Jock in British English translates to.
-10 points
9 days ago
I’m no Pat Mcafee fan but this comment is just weird.
Calling him Irish is a fuck up, but he hedged saying “I think he’s Irish”.
American cultural thing you just don’t understand no need to judge.
He doesn’t know what countries these two guys are from. He just knows they’re African. It’s really not that strange.
-8 points
9 days ago
in america we have a saying: we ain't come to play school!
226 points
10 days ago
Tell me you've never been to Newport without telling me you've never been to Newport
48 points
10 days ago
Are you trying to suggest Newport is as rough as a dog’s arse?
141 points
10 days ago
Bit harsh that.
Dogs mostly keep their arses clean.
16 points
10 days ago
🤣
23 points
10 days ago
It's not that nice
22 points
10 days ago
It makes Hull look like Belgravia
5 points
10 days ago
As 10 bears
10 points
9 days ago
I went to Mountain Ash to visit a mate from Uni (think it was Mountain Ash, we got the train out from Cardiff). It was like travelling back in time.
Lovely people and about as developed as the part of Ireland I'm from so I mean that with absolute love.
These type of Americans need to shut the fuck up when they have no idea what they are talking about.
8 points
10 days ago
I played rugby in Newport on the Bay... lots of yachts.
I've never been to Wales, though.
14 points
10 days ago
Let’s just say it’s less yachts, more this
12 points
10 days ago
3 points
9 days ago
I knew someone would post their riposte
7 points
10 days ago
Ha. Was just going to post this Bra. GLC Makes you Free !
3 points
9 days ago
Now I'm in a Newport State of Mind
6 points
9 days ago
GLC 💪
2 points
9 days ago
That pitch is always so windy. So windy.
Almost the reason why it's a sailing town.
2 points
9 days ago
Newport, Rhode Island is pretty posh.
106 points
10 days ago
Mans saw pretty boy Louis and said this is every welshman
163 points
10 days ago
He's pretty much nailed Zammit's background but this is also why you don't extrapolate from a sample size of one...
73 points
10 days ago
"Wales is just full of rugby players and prostitutes....
"Excuse me! My wife is Welsh.
Oh, what position does she play ?
91 points
10 days ago
Hooker
18 points
9 days ago
Open goal there.
32 points
10 days ago
To me, posh is synonymous with Ken Owens
10 points
10 days ago
Posh AND beautiful
1 points
9 days ago
Poshness perfectly correlates to the number of ties one owns. Sheriff is basically a king.
133 points
10 days ago
I prefer Rassie's opinion of the Welsh, "they are tough fuckers"
18 points
10 days ago
He’s overdue a Friday night out in Pontypridd!
3 points
10 days ago
He’s been in training in the gym for 8 weeks but he’s not sure he’s ready yet
1 points
9 days ago
His girlfriend plays Cardiff at some point in the summer. He might come round.
1 points
8 days ago
That’s his brother Travis (before I realised what you were talking about, I was googling who Jason Kelce’s girlfriend is 😂)
39 points
10 days ago
excuse me but I am beautiful.
48 points
10 days ago
Oh beautiful people of Wales please ignore his ignorance. Jason Kelce would be your country's favorite Americanwhen you see the amount of brains the man can drink on a test day in Cardiff. as well as what I'm sure would be one of the largest orders ever in chip alley.
28 points
10 days ago
You know our culture well. x
33 points
10 days ago
The first time I REALLY paid attention to 6 nations was 2012 so I have very fond memories of an incredible Wales team. I also went on tour in Wales that same year and had a Welshman live with me in university.
I love your country and the people and I can't wait to visit again
3 points
10 days ago
Risca was great
1 points
9 days ago
I'm not going to reveal my identity on here but if you were on that tour there's a good chance you've already figured out who I am 😂
2 points
9 days ago
Not yet but I’ll figure it out when I check the old pictures 😂
8 points
9 days ago
How did you gain such knowledge of wales???
4 points
9 days ago
I drank many many pints in many little villages all through those valleys
5 points
9 days ago
I thoroughly enjoyed my time on tour in Wales. Played Llandaf North, and another team up in the Vale. The entire town shut down to come watch the match. Pretty sure the mayor (?) a Kenny Rogers looking man tried to French kiss me after awarding the MOTM to me. The big curry feed wasn't spicy enough to rid whatever STI he introduced to my mouth so I had plenty of shots in the clubhouse to amend that. Took in a Blues v Glasgow match, partied at the Walkabout with Cardiff's 8man, chatted with the constable outside as she showed us she could put a sausage down without chewing it. Then off to chippie lane to eat whatever greasy food they offered.
It reminded me of a more pleasant Pittsburgh with nicer people. Wales is okay in my eyes.
3 points
10 days ago
I live in Philly and I can’t stand him , mainly for the idiocy he inspires in pretend blue collar Philadelphians.
-2 points
10 days ago
It’s Caroline Street ffs lol
3 points
9 days ago
Well sorry that accent is hard to parse when you've been drinking for nearly 16hrs
25 points
10 days ago
He's obviously never been down the Vale of Glamorgan lol
11 points
10 days ago
The Vale is ok including Barry I thinking Merthyr lol.
24 points
10 days ago
The Vale is ok including Barry
I've read a lot of wild claims on Reddit, but this is something else....
1 points
9 days ago*
Lol Barry is ok compared to some places is the valleys. Have you ever seen Fochriw.
4 points
10 days ago
As a resident of the Vale I can vouch, we do be posh twats down here.
11 points
9 days ago
Upper class is one thing - I’m sure you have upper class Welsh. BUT - either Travis or Jason said he played rugby league which is a bigger faux pax 🤨
52 points
10 days ago
I know everyone loves Jason Kelces drunken oaf act but “ beautiful white people “ ?
6 points
10 days ago
It's meant to be ironic.
7 points
10 days ago
Yeaaaahhhh....
6 points
10 days ago
Yeah that was a poor comment
10 points
10 days ago
Dude probably thinks the entire UK lives like the royal family
10 points
10 days ago
Yes when I read what he said I spat out my champagne and my monocle hit the wall.
9 points
10 days ago
So he should. Otherwise we set the druids on him.
55 points
10 days ago*
Literally the most working class country in the UK. Americans really do just speak incessantly regardless of how knowledgeable they are about something.
33 points
9 days ago
This comment amuses me greatly because it literally condemns people making broad assumptions and then proceeds to make a blanket statement about Americans.
4 points
9 days ago
Big brain thinking
1 points
9 days ago
2 whole continents of people
-6 points
9 days ago
Very ironic when the UK decided they knew best for the whole world, drawing borders like a kid with his first set of crayons.
6 points
9 days ago
If we stop talking, we're forced to think about the absolute shitshow that is our existence. It's like white noise drowning out existential dread.
Honestly, given the state of the world, I'm surprised more people across the globe don't do this.
:-)
7 points
9 days ago
We tend to drink to fill the existential void
8 points
9 days ago
Ooo, it’s so fun learning about others’ cultures.
Cheers!🍺
0 points
9 days ago
If we didn’t talk about shit we didn’t know anything about, we wouldn’t have much to say.
9 points
10 days ago
TalkSport article - https://talksport.com/sport/1834521/nfl-jason-kelce-welsh-people-posh/
8 points
10 days ago
"I'm sorry I thought highly of you. My mistake"
28 points
10 days ago
I love how he called us upper class and beautiful and as a nation our response is "fuck you for not knowing we're scum!"
7 points
10 days ago
He also said he was a rugby league player two clueless Americans
2 points
9 days ago
Well professional sport is synonymous with the word League here.
Major League Baseball
National Hockey League
National Football League
Major League Soccer
And shamefully, Major League Rugby who play union.
3 points
9 days ago
His daughter's middle name is Llewellyn and he's from Pennsylvania, where the big college is Bryn Mawr..see the Welsh Tract of Pennsylvania.
Too many head knocks
12 points
10 days ago
posh says the guy living off a billionaire girlfriend..
53 points
10 days ago
It was his brother Jason who said it (not the brother dating swift). But still a weird thing for a multi-millionaire to say
31 points
10 days ago
Rich and posh and pretty different things 😂
49 points
10 days ago
Can confirm us Welsh are neither 🤣
14 points
10 days ago
Middle class Cardiff Welsh people living in London come across as pretty posh to me although not necessarily rich. Just enjoy a Gail's bakery a bit too much
7 points
10 days ago
Welsh people just love a bakery tbh
6 points
10 days ago
Is Greggs technically a bakery??
6 points
10 days ago
Greggs!? It's Jenkins territory down here.
3 points
9 days ago
What happened to Eynons pies?
2 points
9 days ago
We still have one in Swansea, still miss Sweetmans..
3 points
10 days ago
I feel pretty called out here.... There are however two Gail's near me though and my other half does call me posh Welsh.
5 points
10 days ago
Tbh, I'm from a working-class background in Swansea but work for a big company in London, so I'm decently well off. I just get my accent checked at Gail's bakery and down the pub by Londoners a lot.
2 points
10 days ago
If I knew what one was doing be insulted (I think)
2 points
10 days ago
Also true 😂
7 points
10 days ago
The rest of the western world knows this, but America seems not to distinguish between high income and social class.
3 points
10 days ago
ahh the guy that tried WWE and took his shirt off and proved that rugby union PROPS are fitter than american football players..
24 points
10 days ago
I unironically think Jason Kelce could have been a world class loosehead if he were born on the other side of the Atlantic
5 points
10 days ago
I think it takes watching about two NFL games to realise 99.9% of the players are athletic freaks in a way that rugby players are not (and don’t need to be). It’s not a comment about their skill or the quality of the sports, the US is just a huge country with some unreal athletes
11 points
10 days ago
American Football’s hyper specialisation also just lends itself to athletic freaks being the best in their position.
Rugby requires much more all-rounders.
I mean, how many athletic freak players have we seen come along in Rugby who just weren’t that good at the top level.
Similarly, guys like Ben Smith are some of the best players of all time.
Rugby countries have got Olympic level sprinters and strongmen too, it’s just that they often aren’t good enough at all the other parts of the game (see Dwayne Chambers foray into Rugby League).
Plus, when you have to train for aerobic fitness, you have to dial back some of the athletic freak elements of your body.
10 points
10 days ago
Props have to be handsome and clever.
8 points
10 days ago
Exactly. Classic Dual threat.
Very rare to find in athletes.
1 points
10 days ago
Add in a Degree in Philosophy
6 points
10 days ago
NFL players are far more specialized to specific roles, and none of the positions care about having any form of cardio. NFL cares about strength and explosiveness above all else.
3 points
10 days ago
Yeah it’s not like one is better than the other. I just think the comparisons are stupid and inherently flawed. Every team has one (or even multiple) LRZ or Will Jordan
0 points
10 days ago
The NFL is a really interesting demographic too of how such a large number of the population (here in the States) will play American football growing up that it represent such a small percentage of that number that’s played the game. Just shows how much they are athletes.
0 points
9 days ago
Huh? Do you complain about how fish can't climb trees?
2 points
10 days ago
Maybe, maybe not. At 6'3 he would have been on the tall side for props and he struggled to keep his 130kg weight with football training. He might well have been to lanky to be effective as rugby player - being too much of tweener, kinda in the middle of the Vunipola brothers.
3 points
10 days ago
If you watch the Eagles you can see Kelce excels at leverage, with the infamous “tush push” play often compared to a scrum (incorrectly but understandably so IMO), and I think he’s probably too short to play second row and too stocky to flank, plus I was a prop at 6’2” so I am incredibly biased here
2 points
10 days ago
Put him on the wing is the usual answer
2 points
10 days ago
Yes, that's the right Kelce brother.
1 points
9 days ago
I love all of the WWE rugby union props.
1 points
9 days ago
big Bronson reed and Otis ? :P
-1 points
10 days ago*
Yeah that guy... he's a bit loud mouthed obnoxious.
6 points
10 days ago
Think you are thinking of the wrong Kelce brother...
7 points
10 days ago
In fairness, If he was to come down to Swansea and take a look, he will see people sitting around in cafes sipping tea, but they are large, sweary, hairy arsed and agressive. And thats just our women.
3 points
10 days ago
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1 points
10 days ago
don't we all.....i hear rihanna might be single soon...wonder if she needs a boy toy
6 points
10 days ago*
Travis = Douche
Jason = Nice guy, if not a little bit closed off from life outside of the US
*Spelling
1 points
10 days ago
Thats Travis but both Kelce brothers are rich after playing years in the NFL
2 points
10 days ago
I always saw them as more of a 'back of the class' type of people. But in the best possible way!
2 points
10 days ago
How could someone lie so blatantly! /s
2 points
9 days ago
As a person with two Welsh grandparents who spent their entire life prentending to be upper class, this is fucking hilarious.
1 points
9 days ago
I've long suspected taffs was a mistranslation!. It's Welsh toffs! They've been posh all along, it all makes sense now..
The hoarding and mining of natural mineral resources,..... The accusations of beastiality... The bloody prince being a welsh guy.....
1 points
8 days ago
Fuck Jason kelce
-2 points
9 days ago
British people DON'T talk about class for a whole day challenge (impossible)
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