Will Ferrell on dressing as Buddy the Elf at a Flyers-Kings game, and Ron Burgundy, quarterback?

Will Ferrell has had no shortage of roles in his comedy career, but he revealed Friday on the New Heights podcast that one of his roles throughout life has been “sports fan.”

Ferrell joined Jason and Travis Kelce’s podcast to discuss his upbringing playing in sports, offer an explanation for Sad Buddy the Elf’s appearance at the Flyers game against the Los Angeles Kings on Dec. 29, and draft some of his most iconic movie characters to a football team.

Here are some of the highlights from Ferrell’s discussion with the Kelces …

Sometimes Ferrell gets weird ideas and follows through with them.

If you were looking for more of an explanation as to why Ferrell dressed like his iconic Christmas character when the Flyers played the Los Angeles Kings on Dec. 29, sorry. That’s all there is to it.

“Buddy the Elf got laid off, I think, from the North Pole,” Ferrell said.

Ferrell has season tickets for the Kings with seats behind the glass, which helped sparked the idea.

“I said, ‘Gosh, over the break it would be funny if I just got a Buddy the Elf costume and didn’t shave for like a week, and I’m just sitting there with like a candy cigarette,’” Ferrell said. “And I’m just going to sit there for a period and see how people react.”

And people certainly reacted, trying to think of any explanation for why Ferrell was there and dressed that way. Was he promoting something? Did he lose a bet? Nope, he just had an idea and followed through.

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While the Kelces bonded with Ferrell over their days of playing street hockey growing up, they couldn’t go too long without bringing things back to football, and having their celebrity guest participate in a mock draft of sorts. But instead of filling out his roster with actual football players, Ferrell had to pair his past characters with specific positions.

Commanding the field at the quarterback position was Anchorman himself, Ron Burgundy.

“He’s commanding — he’d get the plays wrong, he’d call the wrong cadences, he’d mess it up constantly, but he’d blame someone else,” Ferrell said.

At running back, Ferrell saw no one better to break some tackles than Old School’s Frank the Tank. Buddy the Elf, a “flexible and live” character, was drafted as wide receiver, causing some debate between Ferrell and Jason Kelce about whether Blades of Glory’s Chazz Michael Michaels would do better in the position.

Jackie Moon from Semi Pro, a regular “player-coach,” was picked to coach the team, and Talladega Nights’ Ricky Bobby as the owner of the team — after Ferrell pointed out he’s “got a little Jerry Jones in him.”

“They’re definitely friends,” Jason Kelce replied.

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While the episode blended Ferrell’s two interests of sports and comedy, the actor opened up about how he almost pursued a career in sports journalism.

His father worked as a musician so Ferrell grew up around the entertainment industry. Despite always wanting to get into comedy, he said he saw how unstable it was and had another idea.

“I also loved sports and I played sports all throughout high school,” Ferrell said. “[USC] had this program that was like sports journalism, so I thought that’s a blending of both.”

Once he graduated from USC, much like Burgundy, Ferrell applied for positions in local newsrooms, putting together tapes of his work to send out to employers. But don’t bother looking for them — Travis Kelce already checked with Ferrell, the tapes are nowhere to be found right now.

“At the same time I thought, ‘You know what? This itch is not going away. I better scratch it’ — about the comedy thing,” Ferrell said.

Ferrell did the two at the same time for a while, taking comedy classes, and by 1995 he was a cast member on Saturday Night Live. The rest, as they say, is history.