Stephen A. Smith sends Jason Kelce and ESPN crew a message as he braves Kansas City cold at Chiefs-Texans game: “Why is Jason Kelce looking like he …

Travis Kelce’s girlfriend isn’t the only loved one the Kansas City Chiefs star will have at Saturday’s playoffs game against the visiting Houston Texans.

In his capacity as an NFL analyst for ESPN, Travis’ brother Jason Kelce has arrived at Arrowhead Stadium for the pivotal Divisional Round matchup, where wind chill temperatures were hovering around 0 degrees Fahrenheit.

‘Are y’all okay?’ ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith asked Kelce and the network’s NFL crew from the warmth and safety of the indoors. ‘How are y’all hanging in that COLD. I’m watching and praying for y’all…….in warmer weather, of course. Enjoy.’

Dressed in a red-and-black lumberjack’s coat with a matching winter hat, the elder Kelce strolled into Arrowhead with a hot cup of coffee, so he didn’t appear too bothered by the weather.

Taylor Swift would arrive with her own security moments thereafter followed by Travis.

Relatively speaking, Jason and Taylor were quite late arrivals for the 4:30pm EST kickoff when compared to Chiefs fans, some of whom got to Arrowhead on Friday night.

Chiefs Kingdom couldn’t wait for Arrowhead Stadium’s parking lot to open up Saturday morning ahead of Kansas City’s Divisional Round playoff matchup with the visiting Houston Texans.

Not only was there bumper-to-bumper traffic at the Truman Sports Complex more than eight hours before kickoff, but some attendees actually arrived at the lot gates on Friday night, as seen in a clip from KCTV’s Mark Poulose.

‘Fire’s getting ready for the brats already,’ one Chiefs fan told the reporter while lifting the helmet-shaped lid of his grill.

These gentlemen were soon joined by thousands of others, as seen in a clip ESPN’s Jeff Darlington posted on social media.

‘The obligatory video of Chiefs fans lined up outside the gates of Arrowhead 8.5 hours before the game to tailgate in 18-degree weather,’ Darlington wrote on X.

This has, of course, become something of a January tradition just off I-70. The Chiefs haven’t lost a home playoff game since the AFC Championship in January of 2022, when Patrick Mahomes & Co. fell to the visiting Cincinnati Bengals.

And with the team’s continued success, fans have turned each playoff game into a day-long holiday.

‘I’m so KC, I woke up EARLY knowing that #ChiefsKingdom was already waiting outside the Arrowhead gates,’ one fan wrote on X. ‘#tradition.’

And weather is, once again, failing to deter Chiefs fans who want to eat and drink in a parking lot for eight hours before the 3:30pm (local time) kickoff.

As of Saturday morning, temperatures were around 19 degrees Fahrenheit. However, there could be wind gusts from 30 to 35mph, according to KSHB meteorologist Jeff Penner.