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On their New Heights podcast, the Kelce brothers reminisced about the infamous Halloween win. Jason admitted that he was the mastermind behind their costume pairing, saying he “forced” his younger brother into being Luigi while he got to be Mario.
Travis shot back with his signature sarcasm: “You can see how ecstatic I was to be Luigi, man.”
Jason defended his decision, joking, “You’ll see what it feels like to be the younger brother and your older brother forces you into doing something.”
But the punchline came when the school crowned Travis — not Jason — the winner. What started as a sibling power play turned into a family legend that Jason still can’t quite laugh off.
Their mom, Donna Kelce, told US Weekly last year that both of her sons were already towering over their classmates in those costumes. “He was kind of salty,” she admitted about Jason’s reaction when Travis took home the win.
The sight of two six-foot-tall high schoolers dressed as video game plumbers apparently made for quite the scene. But for the Kelces, that Halloween became a story retold every October — a mix of family rivalry and comedic nostalgia.
Travis and Jason have since shared how their dad, Ed Kelce, wasn’t exactly a fan of Halloween. “He was the Grinch of Halloween,” Travis joked, saying their father “would actively reject people” from getting candy.
Jason added that Ed had strict rules about who was “young enough” to trick-or-treat. “Like, nah, not young enough!” Travis recalled their dad saying to disappointed kids. Those no-nonsense rules, they said, “shut down” their trick-or-treating careers “at a very young age.”
It’s a story that paints the Kelce upbringing in classic blue-collar Cleveland fashion — strict, funny, and packed with life lessons (and sibling jabs).
That goofy green outfit might have seemed like a small high school moment, but it ended up symbolizing something bigger: Travis’s knack for turning even reluctant moments into triumphs.
He might have been the sidekick in costume, but in life, he became the star — a three-time Super Bowl champion and one of the most dominant tight ends in NFL history.
Meanwhile, Jason — a Super Bowl champ himself — still jokes about losing that long-ago contest. It’s the kind of brotherly rivalry that America loves about the Kelce family: competitive, funny, and full of heart.
