As we saw in Wednesday’s Christmas game between the Chiefs and Steelers, there are some celebrations that can result in penalties – even under the NFL’s relaxed celebration rules. But in Travis Kelce’s case, he took the penalty intentionally.

And there was a great reason for it.

Kelce entered Week 17 tied with Tony Gonzalez atop the Chiefs’ franchise leaderboard for touchdown receptions. During Gonzalez’s playing days, players were allowed to dunk over the goal post, and this became Gonzalez’s trademark. Until Jimmy Graham’s dunk bent the post in 2013 and caused a delay against the Falcons. The league responded by banning dunks, but Kelce knew he still had to pay tribute to the Chiefs legend.

After Kelce scored that record-setting touchdown in the fourth quarter, he immediately went to the post and showed he had just enough jump at 35 to complete the dunk. While Kelce was punished for the celebration, he shouldn’t expect to pay the fine for it.

Gonzalez has already said that if Kelce decided to dunk after breaking the record, he would personally pay the fine.

That is respect.

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