Michael Strahan on Championship Sunday, Super Bowl Predictions, Sack Records and Life After the NFL | EP 177
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Wondery
4.8 • 17.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 91 minutes
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92%ers, welcome to another episode of New Heights brought to you by XFINITY. Today we are joined by Hall of Famer Michael Strahan!
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Later, we are joined by Michael Strahan to recap everything from Championship Sunday. Do we believe in the Patriots, can Sam Darnold finish the job, and what is the most exciting matchup headed into Super Bowl LX?
We also get some incredible Spags stories, his thoughts on the broken sack records, candid stories from the Giants' 2007 Super Bowl run, why he loved transitioning to media, his retirement advice, hysterical stories from his battles in the trenches with Jon Runyan, and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | That's going to be a fun matchup right there. |
| 0:02.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:02.8 | Through young, up and coming, both of them at the top of their game right now. I'm excited for that matchup. You know what's so funny, man, we're watching the game and J.S.N gets to catch the touchdown. Howie's like, Michael, it doesn't look like he's working. And I'm like, how in the world, if you got to cover anybody, that's the dude. How does he get open? And you know what, Howie said to me? |
| 0:22.4 | He goes, that's the dude. How does he get open? |
| 0:22.3 | And you know what I always said to me? |
| 0:24.6 | He goes, that's the same thing we said about Kelsey. |
| 0:37.1 | Welcome back to New Heights, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, a wondering show brought to you by Xfinity. |
| 0:39.6 | They got that best deal ever, five-year thing. |
| 0:43.0 | We're going to talk about it later. |
| 0:44.0 | We're your host. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm Travis Kelsey, my big brother, Jason Kelsey, rocking the same hoodies from the old New Heights Clubhouse out of the University of Cincinnati, Cleveland Heights alum. |
| 0:54.6 | Shout out to Cleveland Heights. |
| 0:55.9 | Well, Cincinnati alum and Cleveland Heights alum. |
| 0:58.5 | Subscribe on YouTube, One Tree, plus wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:01.9 | And follow the show on all social media at New Heights Show with 1S. |
| 1:05.6 | mentioned the Kelsey Clubhouse. |
| 1:07.4 | That's dot com. |
| 1:08.4 | If you want to check out anything, Kelsey, anything new hides. |
| 1:11.3 | Jason, why don't you tell everyone that's listening what we have coming up? 92% is we got a great episode as we do every week. That's right. We're going to touch a little bit of that championship Sunday as well as look ahead with Super Bowl 60. Damn, Super Bowl 60. Yeah, you know what else I like? |
| 1:28.3 | Tell me. |
| 1:28.5 | Michael Strayhan is here. |
| 1:30.8 | That's right. Super Bowl 60. Damn, Super Bowl 60. Yeah, you know what else I like? |
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