ESPN host blasts Travis Kelce for ghosting media after disastrous Chiefs loss, rips 'New Heights' podcast

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Chris "Mad Dog" Russo took time on Wednesday to blast Kansas City Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce for not talking to the press following the team’s 16-13 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, where quarterback Patrick Mahomes tore his ACL to end his season.

Russo even laid into Kelce’s popular "New Heights" podcast in the process.

During a segment on ESPN’s "First Take," Russo was mad that Kelce didn’t take the time to speak to media after the loss that eliminated Kansas City from the playoffs for the first time since 2014.

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Chris "Mad Dog" Russo speaks on SiriusXM at Super Bowl LVIII. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

It was certainly a rough day for the Chiefs, but Russo believed Kelce should not have ghosted the media.

"I could care less about his stupid podcast, but how about Kelce on Sunday afternoon?" Russo quipped to begin his lengthy rant. "They just lose the game and Mahomes tears his ACL. The last play of the game, [Gardner] Minshew goes to Kelce to try to kick a field goal and gets intercepted. Kelce, after he settles down in the locker room, says, ‘Not today fellas, I’m not going to talk to you.’ The media.

"Hold on a minute, time out! We got these poor guys who have been covering the Chiefs for years, who go to every training camp practice, every preseason game. Every day for seven months they cover the football team and you blow them off at the end of this game when they got Mahomes out, maybe the last game you’re ever going to play. You’re not going to give them three words. You can’t give them,