The NFL’s Kelce brothers, who are now Six Flags investors, are already making plans to build a first-of-its-kind roller coaster that combines five elements that have never been put together in a single ride.
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce have teamed up with activist investors Jana Partners in hopes of transforming the embattled Six Flags amusement park chain.
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The coaster enthusiasts who “absolutely loved” Cedar Point and Kings Island while growing up in Ohio spoke about their involvement with Six Flags during their New Heights podcast.
“I could not pass this opportunity up,” Travis Kelce said on the podcast. “We’re going to be a part of the theme parks and amusement parks that actually rocked our world as kids and hopefully give families nowadays the fun and the memories that we had and we cherished growing up.”
“I’m investing too, brother,” Jason Kelce said on the podcast. “I’m just going to keep riding your coattails.”
The brothers played a real-life version of the Roller Coaster Tycoon video game during the podcast and came up with the “Kelce Roller Coaster” they want Six Flags to build.
The first-of-its-kind ride would feature five coaster elements that have never been combined together.
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There are really only a handful of Six Flags parks that could become home to such an over-the-top thrill ride: Six Flags Magic Mountain, Cedar Point, Knott’s Berry Farm, Canada’s Wonderland, Six Flags Great Adventure and Six Flags Qiddiya.
Here’s what the brothers want the Kelce Coaster to include:
1) Giga Coaster
Travis Kelce called out Cedar Point’s Millennium Force coaster by name.
“It’s got to have a few drops in there, one or two,” Travis Kelce said on the podcast.
Millennium Force became the world’s first giga coaster with a 300-foot drop when the legendary ride debuted in 2000.
2) Multiple Inversions
The other top priority on Travis Kelce’s coaster checklist: “Definitely loops.”
An inversion on a 300-foot-tall coaster would be extremely rare.
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Six Flags Over Texas plans to open the 309-foot-tall Tormenta Rampaging Run with four inversions in 2026. Tormenta will become the world’s first giga coaster with an inversion.
Tormenta’s 218-foot-tall Immelmann loop will become the world’s second tallest inversion behind the 240-foot-tall inverted top hat on the Spitfire coaster at the soon-to-open Six Flags Qiddiya in Saudi Arabia.
3) Inverted Coaster
Cedar Point’s Raptor inverted coaster also got name-checked by Travis Kelce.
“I love the Raptor because your feet are dangling,” Travis Kelce said on the podcast. “I like that. Being a big guy, I don’t got to worry about my height being the issue on this thing.”
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Kings Island’s 2014 Banshee inverted coaster offers a modern update to the 1994 Raptor.
There’s never been an inverted giga coaster, according to the Roller Coaster Database.
4) Indoor Ride
Travis Kelce’s favorite rides have always been indoors.
“I always thought those were some of the coolest ones because you could just turn the lights off in those things and you didn’t know where you were going,” Travis Kelce said on the podcast.
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The Kelce brothers almost certainly rode the Disaster Transport indoor bobsled coaster that operated at Cedar Point from 1985 to 2012. The 1996 Flight of Fear indoor coaster at Kings Island has four inversions in the dark.
Germany’s Europa Park opened the Arthur indoor inverted coaster in 2014, according to RCDB.
It’s hard to imagine an indoor giga coaster even if the 300-foot drop was outdoors with an enclosed pre-show or post-show.
5) Wooden Coaster
Jason Kelce added a wicked twist for the fifth ride element: Make it a wooden coaster.
“There’s a dirtiness to the wood. There’s a shakiness to it,” Jason Kelce said on the podcast. “I want the adrenaline pumping. The more scared I am, the more the adrenaline’s pumping.”
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The Kelce brothers almost certainly rode Cedar Point’s Blue Streak out-and-back wooden coaster and Kings Island’s legendary 7,300-foot-long Beast. If they were lucky, they might have even got a chance to ride Kings Island’s short-lived Son of Beast wooden coaster with a vertical loop.
Rocky Mountain Construction and Gravity Group have built plenty of wooden-hybrid coasters with inversions.
Iowa’s Adventureland bills the Underground as the world’s only indoor wooden coaster.
What you won’t find anywhere in the world are any wooden or wooden-hybrid giga or inverted coasters, according to RCDB.
Coaster Soundtrack
The Kelce brothers didn’t discuss a soundtrack for their new coaster — but there are plenty of options.
Travis Kelce’s pre-game warm-up playlist on Apple Music includes songs by everyone from AC/DC, Chic, Chainsmokers and Technotronic to Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Outkast and Travis Scott.
He could also turn to his fiancee for a song or two from her playlist. Grammy-winning pop singer Taylor Swift’s catalog includes songs about speed (“Getaway Car”), thrills (“Cruel Summer”), roller coaster romances (“The Way I Loved You”) and her relationship with Travis (“Wood”).