Disruptive Play: Challenging Sports & Media Norms

Disruptive Play: Challenging Sports & Media Norms

Who Wants the Kelces’ Transition to Hollywood?

What Travis and Jason’s entertainment ambitions reveal about the new athlete economy and what happens when the content outweighs the talent

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Michael Cohen
Aug 07, 2025
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Travis Kelce just showed up in Happy Gilmore 2 (it’s hard to believe the original came out in 1996)

It’s his latest Hollywood move, and he’s not even retired yet. He’s already hosted Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, executive produced My Dead Friend Zoe, joined Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie, and now he’s riding Sandler nostalgia in a Netflix sequel built …

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