8 Podcasts Like New Heights (For Football, Family, and Off-the-Cuff Banter)

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New Heights works because Jason and Travis Kelce sound like brothers first and NFL players second. The football insight is real, but the draw is watching two people who have known each other their whole lives needle, defend, and crack each other up in real time.

That’s a specific kind of chemistry. Plenty of sports podcasts have insider access. Plenty of family podcasts have easy rapport. Fewer combine both: real football expertise from people who actually played it, wrapped in the unguarded back-and-forth you only get between siblings.

If you love New Heights, you’re probably drawn to one side of that mix more than the other: the football, or the brotherly chaos around it. Here are 8 shows that pick up different parts of what makes it work.

Why people look for shows like New Heights

Sometimes you don’t want a polished studio breakdown. You want the conversation you’d overhear if two guys who actually played the game were just talking, unscripted, with no producer smoothing out the tangents.

That’s valuable because it feels more honest than most sports media. The insight is still there, but it comes out sideways, through a story or an argument, instead of a rehearsed take.

The difference with New Heights

The core New Heights formula isn’t just two former (and current) NFL players talking football. It’s sibling chemistry specifically: the teasing, the interrupting, the total lack of self-consciousness that comes from decades of history.

Compared with traditional football analysis shows, it’s looser and funnier. Compared with pure comedy podcasts, it carries more real football substance. Compared with single-host shows, the built-in dynamic does a lot of the work.

So if you’re looking for alternatives, decide which part you miss most:

• The insider football knowledge
• The sibling or best-friend banter
• The willingness to go off-topic and stay funny
• The sense that nothing is off-limits between the hosts
• The mix of real analysis and genuine goofing around

Signs a show will feel similar

• The hosts have real history with each other, not chemistry built for the mic.
• Football knowledge comes from having actually played it.
• The show can pivot from a serious breakdown to a joke inside one sentence.
• Guests get treated like old friends, not press-tour stops.
• The tone stays light even when the opinions get strong.

What to listen to instead

1. The Manningcast (Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli Manning)

Two Super Bowl-winning quarterback brothers watch Monday Night Football together, trade real strategy insight, needle each other, and bring in a rotating cast of celebrity and athlete guests along the way.

Why it fits: This is the closest comp on the list. Actual brothers, actual football pedigree, and the same crossover appeal that pulls in people who don’t normally watch football just for the guest list and the sibling dynamic.

2. Good Morning Football

An ensemble crew, including former NFL linebacker Jason McCourty, breaks down the week in football with genuine chemistry built from years of doing the show together, balancing real analysis with a loose, morning-show energy.

Why it fits: If what you love about New Heights is a group that actually likes each other talking football without taking themselves too seriously, this delivers that daily instead of weekly.

3. Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce

Jason Kelce’s wife shares blunt, funny takes on marriage, parenting, and pop culture, then brings guests in for conversations that go further than the small-talk version.

Why it fits: The closest thing to a family tie-in on this list, with the same unfiltered, nothing’s-off-limits energy that makes New Heights work.

4. The Bill Simmons Podcast

Bill Simmons built a media empire on the same premise: talk about sports the way you’d talk about them with a smart friend, then wander into movies, business, or whatever else is on his mind.

Why it fits: Less sibling chaos, more sharp analysis, but the conversational, tangent-friendly format will feel familiar.

5. The Rich Eisen Show

A veteran broadcaster who treats football seriously but never takes himself too seriously, mixing real reporting with genuinely funny, off-the-cuff moments alongside his longtime crew.

Why it fits: A steadier, more traditional pick for listeners who want the football insight of New Heights without quite as much sibling chaos.

6. The Fantasy Footballers

A tight-knit crew breaks down fantasy football strategy with the same fast, funny, inside-joke-filled energy of guys who’ve been doing this together for years.

Why it fits: If the specific thing you love is the friend-group banter layered over real football knowledge, this scratches that itch weekly during the season.

7. The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Long, loose conversations about football and basketball with a rotating cast of guests, favoring depth and real opinion over hot takes.

Why it fits: A good pick if what draws you to New Heights is the football analysis more than the brother act, but you still want it to feel like a conversation instead of a broadcast.

8. So Many Questions…

So Many Questions… doesn’t have the sibling dynamic, but it shares the belief that real rapport, not a script, is what gets someone to say something true. Host Kendall Guillemette treats every guest like the conversation actually matters, whether that’s a baseball writer, a sportswriter navigating a controversy at work, or a photographer talking about risk.

Try Craig Calcaterra on leaving law for baseball writing, or Cespedes Family BBQ on turning a lifelong friendship into a baseball podcast, the closest thing on the show to New Heights’s own origin story.

The common thread

Every show on this list runs on the same fuel: real history between the people talking, applied to a subject they actually know. New Heights proved that works even at the biggest stage in sports, because the Kelce brothers never stopped sounding like brothers.

The shows above split that instinct in different directions: more analysis, more chaos, more friend-group energy, but they’re all chasing the same thing that makes New Heights work: expertise that sounds like a real conversation, not a broadcast.

Takeaway

The best podcasts like New Heights combine real football knowledge with genuine, unscripted chemistry between the people talking.

Start with The Manningcast for the closest tonal overlap: real brothers, real football, real celebrity guests. If the family angle is what you love most, branch into Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce. And if what you actually want is that same unguarded rapport applied to people outside the football world, that’s what So Many Questions… is for.