Olympic medalist Ilona Maher was over the moon that Jason Kelce and Kylie Kelce took the time to support her women’s rugby sevens team at the 2024 Paris Olympics. “Kylie and I follow each other [and] are mutual friends online, and so we’ve chatted before,” Maher, 27, exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, August 8, while discussing her partnership with Secret Outlast deodorant. “I was so happy that she came to the game and brought Jason .
.. because we want to get more eyes on [the sport and] to get a football guy like that to watch the game was so cool.
” Jason, 36, and Kylie, 32, supported Team USA at two of their rugby matches, where the retired Philadelphia Eagles center’s wardrobe made headlines. “The first day, he wore a really tight rugby jersey and then the next day he came, my family got to meet him,” Maher recalled. “I think my mom gave him one of the shirts that they’d made for me and it was so cool.
” As seen in now-viral social media snaps, Jason sported a red, white and blue button-down with multiple images of Maher’s head across the front. “He wore that to gymnastics and he got to toss the ball around with my dad,” Maher quipped on Thursday. “It was so cool to see.
I think he’s just a really down-to-earth dude, and he, I think, liked watching the rugby. I think more people can get into it like Jason.” The women’s U.
S. rugby team ultimately took home the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. “It’s been crazy.
Been a lot .