Feb. 1, 2018 (Philly.com) -- If Jason Kelce is looking for ways to spend the extra money that, win or lose, he’ll earn in Sunday’s Super Bowl LII, the hockey team at his old high school has a suggestion:
“The kids want him to buy them another Foosball table,” Eddie Babcox, Cleveland Heights High’s longtime hockey coach, said Tuesday morning during a conversation in his equipment cluttered office adjacent to Cleveland Heights Community Center rink.
The Tigers haven’t had one since 2006 when Kelce, the biggest and most frightening forward in the Greater Cleveland High School Hockey League, turned theirs into kindling.
Kelce was an outstanding running back and linebacker for Cleveland Heights, which is also where Eagles wideout Shelton Gibson played a few years later. He starred on the lacrosse team. A saxophonist, he became the first freshman ever to earn a spot on the school’s prestigious Jazz Ensemble.