Why Jason Kelce Took the Mic at Local Zoning Board Meeting

Jason Kelce took to the podium at a local Pennsylvania board meeting to discuss a new home he and his wife, Kylie Kelce, are planning on building for their growing family. 

Last week, Jason, 37, appeared at a Haverford Township zoning hearing dressed in an olive green cardigan, white dress shirt and gray pants. Jason and Kylie, 32, moved into a home in Haverford 2018 and purchased the adjoining property in 2020. 

Jason and Kylie share three daughters — Wyatt, 5, Ellie, 3 and Bennett, 2 — and the couple announced in November 2024 that they are expecting their fourth daughter. 

As Jason rose to stand next to his representative at the meeting, zoning hearing board member Robert Kane told him, “I need to swear you in, Jason. Please raise your right hand.”

Jason joked he couldn’t find anything to “put my hand on,” but eventually answered “absolutely” when asked if he swore to “tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?”

“Do I start this, or do you guys ask questions?” a noticeably nervous Jason asked the board members. “I don’t know the process.”

After being instructed to explain the background of his appearance at the meeting, he said, “I didn’t know where I was going to move to when I married Kylie.”

Jason and Kylie got married in April 2018 when he was still a member of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles. He retired in March 2024 after 13 years with the franchise. 

“We wanted to be in this area,” Jason said. “We like this area a lot.”

Jason explained he and Kylie moved into their home in 2018 “with the idea that eventually we would upsize into a bigger house.”

“The lot next door became available,” Jason added, “so we thought it would be awesome to build a home there and make this our permanent address.”

After “three architects” and “many years” of back-and-forth, Jason said, “We are trying to build a home.”

With that construction, however, comes concerns about privacy as Jason, Kylie and Jason’s extended family — including, of course, his younger brother, Travis Kelce — continue to rise in fame and notoriety.

“Obviously, things for my family are quite unique with the security purposes,” Jason told the board. “We’d like to deter, a little bit, the foot traffic coming in and out of the home. We are trying to put a fence that sufficiently does that while also appeals to the aesthetic of the area and that people would appreciate.”

In closing, the board members asked Jason to make a couple of hyper-specific zoning clarifications, but one member couldn’t help but profess his fandom of the former football star and “New Heights” cohost. 

“I have so many questions,” he told Jason. “Maybe a future podcast episode.”