Jason Kelce is a former NFL star, and will work for the world leader of ignorance in sports- ESPN next season analyzing professional football.

Football, it would seem, is something Kelce can speak about semi-intelligently given that he played the game.

Kelce also is a co-host of a podcast with Taylor Swift’s boyfriend.

And even though ESPN has a long-storied history of hiring ex-athletes that don’t have a clue, Kelce’s media learning curve is steep in a couple of areas.

One in particular being idle speculation about performance-enhancing drugs in sports, and besmirching the legacy of the most famous and beloved thoroughbred of all-time.

Daily Racing Blog will spare its readers the entirety of Kelce’s bloviations, suffice to say that while doing his podcast he publicly aired half-baked (which he probably was) assertions that the 1973 Triple Crown Winner was on steroids—“Secretariat was juiced to the gills.” 

Kelce later admitted that he knows nothing about SECRETARIAT and bases his opinions entirely on the fact that SECRETARIAT belonged to an era when drug use in athletes was rampant.

The podcast conversation between Kelce and Swift’s boyfriend centered on the Swifty boy-toy and his trip to Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby last weekend.

From there it veered to Kelce’s suspicions about SECRETARIAT and his abnormally large heart.

After some fallout and some callouts Kelce tried to walk it back a bit on Twitter: “I’m sorry everyone, wasn’t trying to get people riled up,” he posted. “I really thought it was just known that in the 70s steroid use was rampant. I’m not trying to take away from Secretariat’s, or anyone from that era’s legacy. You’re right, without proof it is unfair to assume these things publicly, I apologize.”

Aww, thanks Jason, and we’re sorry for thinking you’re a wife-beater. Don’t get mad, we aren’t trying to get you riled up, it’s just that it’s well known that a lot of NFL players are abusive and have severe bouts of roid-rage, but there’s no proof you’ve beaten your wife, so sorry, our bad.

And hey Jason, maybe it’s time to introduce some type of Concussion Protocol on yourself prior to your podcasts and ESPN appearances.