Travis & Jason Kelce BROTHERLY LOVE!

BEST FRIENDS. FIERCE COMPETITORS. POLAR OPPOSITES. KINDRED SPIRITS. THE BIGGEST NAMES IN PRO FOOTBALL SHARE AN UNBREAKABLE BOND 

- DAVID WALTERS

Chicken grease. An old hockey skate. Mildew. A flip-flop. On a recent episode of their New Heights podcast, the Kelce Brothers are discussing what people might assume Jason smells like. The conversation, inspired by their discovery of a growing, unsanctioned online industry of candles claiming to be Travis-scented (most of which involve conventional ingredients like cedarwood and patchouli), quickly goes where many of their conversations go. That is to say, barreling headlong off the rails.

"Can we make [a candle] for Jason? Can we have a smell-off?" Travis demands, giggling, before delving further into his olfactory expectations for his older brother. "You look like you smell like a wet boot!" Jason, devoting himself to a Google search, responds: "You don't think there's anyone out there looking for Smells Like Jason Kelce candles?" Travis, feeling generous, tosses out a couple alternative top notes: cinnamon, apple cider.

"There are a bunch... with my likeness on them, but none of them say 'Smells Like," " Jason concludes in mock defeat. "I feel like people would be turned off by a candle that smells like me." At this, both break into fits of laughter.

The Kelces' style of brotherly banter would sound right at home in a mid-aughts Judd Apatow comedy, but it was forged in a modest backyard in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where the two grew up competing and teasing with equal zeal. "I've been listening to the shtick between these [two] since they were toddlers," their father, Ed Kelce, 72, told People last October. "The way they interact on the podcast, that's the way they've always been. And that's always been fun to watch."