Jason Kelce’s headlining late-night talk show is truly a family affair.
“The show, obviously, needs its own mascot,” Kelce, 37, said during the Saturday, January 18, episode of ESPN’s They Call It Late Night. “We went out to get the perfect design team for the job.”
In a prerecorded segment, Jason and wife Kylie Kelce — the official They Call It Late Night announcer — asked their children to come up with a mascot. Jason and Kylie, 32, share daughters Wyatt, 5, Ellie, 3, and Bennett, 23 months. (Kylie is also currently pregnant with baby No. 4, another girl.)
Before the littlest Kelces could get to work crafting their ideas, Jason tested them on their knowledge.
“Do you know what a mascot is? Who’s the Eagles’ mascot?” he asked, to which Ellie correctly identified Swoop. (Jason played center for the Philadelphia Eagles throughout his entire NFL career before retiring in March 2024.)
“We need to make our own version of a Swoop,” Jason said. “And I thought it’d be fun if we all designed it together.”
Wyatt, Ellie and Bennett then went to work coloring in potential mascots — complete with “something to drink” in its hand.
“I think we have a mascot, girlies,” Jason later said. “We have Wyatt’s face, Ellie’s body and then we have the ‘pizza hand’ you drew over here [and] ‘chicken legs.’ This is our mascot.”
Wyatt and Ellie had opted to name their mascot “Dragon McFart-Fart Butt-Butt.”
“OK, sounds like he’s Irish?” Jason quipped in response, later bringing the complete drawing into the ESPN studio.
Speaking to the live audience, he gushed that the girls “nailed” the artistic task.
“I think Ellie was going for the face as well, but she got a body,” Jason mentioned. “I don’t really know how [Kylie] got Bennie to draw anything. I’ve never gotten Bennie to draw something.”
According to Kylie, Bennett had contributed an “accidental scribble” that turned out to resemble legs. The drawing was the inspiration for a mascot costume that one of Jason’s colleagues donned for the rest of the broadcast.
“Hello, I’m Dragon McFart-Fart Butt-Butt. It’s so fun to be here,” the mascot bellowed to Jason and Kylie’s respective amusement. “Thanks so much for making me girls.”
Jason, meanwhile, was in awe that his kids “f—ing nailed” the design.
“Well done! I don’t even know what to say,” he further mused. “It’s so good. … I just love this thing so much. It turned out incredibly perfect. I wish we had it forever, it’s a shame we only have it for two more weeks.”
Kelce’s They Call It Late Night airs Saturdays at 1 a.m. ET during the NFL playoffs, which wrap in February with the 2025 Super Bowl.
