Jason Kelce Is ‘Not Proud’ of Smashing Heckler’s Phone and Using F-Slur: ‘I Chose to Greet Hate With Hate’
variety.comMichaela Zee Jason Kelce has addressed the recent altercation between him and a football fan who called his brother, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, a homophobic slur. “I’m not happy with anything that took place,” Kelce said at the start of ESPN’s “Monday Night Countdown.” “I’m not proud of it.
In a heated moment I chose to greet hate with hate, and I just don’t think that that’s a productive thing, I really don’t. I don’t think that it leads to discourse and it’s the right way to go about things.
And in that moment I fell down to a level that I shouldn’t have.” The incident occurred Saturday outside Penn State’s Beaver Stadium in State College, Penn.
The retired Philadelphia Eagles center, now a football analyst with ESPN, was there to attend the Penn State-Ohio State football game and appear on ESPN’s “College GameDay.” In a video circulating online, Kelce is seen walking through a crowd outside the stadium when a man in the background yelled at him, “Hey, Kelce.
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