“We’ve always wanted to do something for this university, for this city,” Travis said to open the show. “You guys have injected us with so much love for the game of football and so much passion.”
This was the first setting of its kind for “New Heights,” which also held a live show last year in Kansas City. Thursday’s nearly 90-minute event included interviews with Burrow, his Bengals teammate,The Bengals have won three of the past five meetings against the Chiefs, including an AFC Championship victory for Cincinnati in Jan. 2022. Kansas City beat the Bengals for the AFC crown the following season. Travis noted that playing the Bengals is “always one of my favorite games to look forward to.”
“I love playing against the best,” Travis told Burrow. “I have all the respect in the world for you.”
