- Travis Kelce was suspended for one year for testing positive for marijuana in 2010
- McAfee was outraged that the incident could have potentially caused a major loss to the NFL
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Pat McAfee has boldly claimed that it won't be long before marijuana is legalized across the United States as he appears to have slammed the Dallas Cowboys for ditching Travis Kelce over his failed drug test.
The Kansas City Chiefs star was suspended for a year by the NCAA after failing a drug test while at the University of Cincinnati.
In a previous episode of his New Heights podcast with his brother Jason, who resurfaced as part of this year's NFL Combine, Kelce revealed that his marijuana mistake left a black mark on his record while interviewing with the Dallas Cowboys .
And McAfee was outraged that the incident may have denied the NFL a major win, as he insisted it wouldn't be long before the league scrapped marijuana testing.
“The NFL has always used marijuana as leverage in negotiations with players,” McAfee said Wednesday on his eponymous show.
Pat McAfee appeared to throw shade at Dallas for ditching Travis Kelce over his failed drug test
Players will say, “We want less offseason workouts because we feel like we’re going to get beat up.” And the NFL will say, “You want weed? We get 20 games.” And the players' association says, “We're not going to give up all this just because of weed.”
“But it feels like we're getting to a point where marijuana will probably be legalized at the federal level.” You'd think someone with a brain would do that. It's only a matter of time.
“I took that from Travis Kelce’s story. First of all, great answer. “I worked my ass off for that. I was young, I'm sorry. I have made a mistake.”
“But these days they also say, ‘Did I hear you failed a weed test?’ “Yes.” “Okay, thanks for your honesty, let’s move on.”
“Thank God Andy Reid didn’t care when he drafted Travis Kelce. And thank God Andy Reid brought Patrick Mahomes with him, because those two playing football together led to people robbing banks.
“Hopefully by eliminating marijuana testing the NFL will be a better place in the future.” “The fact that this potentially slows down a GOAT because of a mistake he made when he was 19 that every other human being makes has.”
While attending Cincinnati in 2010, Kelce was suspended for a year for testing positive for marijuana.
He had previously revealed in his combine interview that the suspension proved to be a sticking point for the Dallas Cowboys.
Kelce was suspended for a year while in college because he tested positive for marijuana
The host thanked Chiefs head coach Andy Reid for drafting the tight end despite the suspension
“I had some bad interviews at the Combine,” Travis recalled in the old episode of New Heights that resurfaced this week.
“The Cowboys kind of pushed me because I got the red flag of missing a year.”
“I don't know if I had a bad morning, basically it was just, I don't even know if I want to say that.”
“It ended really quickly.” I basically just said, “If you think I'm going to be that guy, or you're wondering if I'm still that person after everything I've fought through, um “To get to where I am now since I missed a season, then you'll probably go somewhere else and pick someone else.”
The NFL already increased the threshold for a positive marijuana test from 35 nanograms to 150 in 2021, while also eliminating tests for it during the offseason. Several states in the US have legalized or decriminalized marijuana in recent years.
Kelce recently estimated that 50-80 percent of active NFL players smoke marijuana, although he admitted that most quit the habit more than a month before the start of the season.