Jason Kelce has apologized on air after angrily seeing a fan’s phone broken last weekend, but fans believe he has nothing to regret.
Kelce — who was at Penn State on Saturday to appear on ESPN’s College GameDay — was walking through a crowd of people when a man called his brother Travis a “f*****” for dating Taylor Swift.
After hearing the vile insult, the Philadelphia Eagles legend responded by grabbing the fan’s phone, slamming it to the ground and yelling, “Who the f***** now?”
Reports emerged claiming that Penn State police are investigating the incident just hours before Kelce was scheduled to appear on ESPN’s Monday Night Football for his brother Travis and the Kansas City Chiefs’ game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
And at the start of the broadcast, he apologized to viewers for “not meeting his usual levels of ‘common decency and respect.’
Jason Kelce has apologized on air for destroying a fan’s phone this weekend
“I think everyone on social media saw what happened this week,” Kelce said. “Listen, I’m not happy about what happened. I’m not proud of it.
“In a heated moment, I chose to greet hate with hate and I just don’t think that’s a productive thing, I really don’t. I don’t think this will lead to any discussion and that it is the right way to go about things. At that point I dropped to a level I shouldn’t have.
“The bottom line is I try to live my life by the golden rule, that’s what I’ve always been taught; I try to treat people with common decency and respect, and I will continue to do so in the future.
“Even though I came up short this week, I’m going to do that and keep doing that.”
Although after hearing him express regret over the incident, fans rushed to social media to defend Kelce and insist he did nothing wrong that day.
Several users were outraged by his apology before the Chiefs vs Bucs game, with some lashing out at ESPN and accusing the network of allowing this to happen.
Kelce responded to a fan who insulted his brother Travis by grabbing their phone and hitting it
One wrote: ‘Jason Kelce shouldn’t have to apologize for standing up for his brother. We love you’.
Another wrote: ‘F*** ESPN for apologizing to Jason Kelce on air. That man didn’t do anything wrong at all.’
“Jason Kelce shouldn’t apologize!” said a third. ‘Some a**hole said disrespectful things and you acted the way you saw fit! Don’t apologize and bend the knee!’
A fourth commented: ‘@JasonKelce you had nothing to apologize for but I’m sure you had to do it for your employer. That idiot should have gotten worse at you.”
While simply saying, “Not a single person on this planet needs an apology from Jason Kelce.”