NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� JuJu Smith-Schuster was there. So was Cooper Kupp, fresh off winning the Super Bowl.
NFL players and other prominent sports figures made up part of the star-studded crowd for at Madison Square Garden on Friday.
Kareem Hunt was one of Kelce’s many current or former Kansas City Chiefs teammates spotted in New York ahead of the wedding, which was expected to also be attended by Kelce’s retired Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl-winning , San Francisco 49ers tight end and others from football, golf and beyond.
Soccer even had a presence, albeit in the form of 鈥淭ed Lasso鈥� actor Jason Sudeikis, himself a big Chiefs fan.
The at the home arena of the NBA鈥檚 New York Knicks and NHL鈥檚 Rangers. of the NBA Finals there, sitting courtside as the Knicks pulled off at that stage of the playoffs in league history by rallying from down 29 to beat San Antonio.
MSG has been the site of some iconic sports moments since the current version opened at this location atop Penn Station in 1968.
The Knicks won their first NBA title there in 1970, when from injury to spark their Game 7 victory against the Los Angeles Lakers.
Joe Frazier beat Muhammad Ali there in the first of the legends’ three boxing matches against each other, the 鈥淔ight of the Century,鈥� in 1971. Ali won the rematch in ’74.
The Rangers ended their 54-year championship drought at the Garden in 1994, defeating the Vancouver Canucks to win the Stanley Cup.
Kelce is a three-time Super Bowl champion with Kansas City and a four-time AP All-Pro selection at his position. Jason was a seven-time All-Pro center who helped Philadelphia win the Super Bowl in the 2017 season.
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