Retired Eagles star Jason Kelce seemingly got into a heated altercation with a man at Penn State's football game on Saturday.
via: People
In now-viral footage shared on Twitter on Saturday, Nov. 2, the retired Philadelphia Eagles star — who was outside of Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa., for the Penn State-Ohio State game — could be seen walking while football fans surrounded him.
As the person filming the footage raised a fist to Jason, 36, and called out his name for a fist bump, another man nearby yelled the homophobic slur in the retired Philadelphia Eagles star’s direction.
“Hey, Kelce. How does it feel your brother’s a f—– dating Taylor Swift?” the man asked, using the slur to refer to Travis, who has been dating Swift, 34, since 2023.
Seconds later, Jason turned around, grabbed the man’s phone out of his hands and smashed it on the ground.
“Looked like a Penn State student was getting in Kelce’s face for no reason,” the initial Twitter user who posted the clip wrote alongside it. “Wild scene in State College.”
Additional footage circulating on Twitter showed a closer-up angle of Jason smashing the phone on asphalt, before picking it up and walking away. The phone owner, who was wearing a Penn State hoodie at the time of the incident, could be seen in multiple clips walking closely behind and seemingly recording Jason before the altercation took place.
Another scene shared on Twitter, which was apparently filmed after Jason smashed the man’s phone, showed the hooded Penn State fan walking through a crowd to pick his phone off the ground. “Give me my phone, bro,” he seemingly said to Jason.
The NFL alum, who grabbed the device first, then stood in front of the man and said, “Who’s the f—– now?” as other people appeared to intervene.
The incident took place as Jason was in attendance at Beaver Stadium for an appearance on ESPN’s College GameDay. The Ohio State Buckeyes ended up winning Saturday’s game, beating out the Nittany Lions 20-13.
The troll better be glad that's all Jason smashed. One of the negatives I despise about social media is that it has made a lot of people way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.
UPDATE: Jason Kelce has broken his silence on the unfortunate event: “I’m not happy with anything that took place. I’m not proud of it,” Kelce said on ESPN. “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 that it leads to discourse and it’s the right way to go about things. In that moment, I fell down to a level that I shouldn’t have."
I'm glad he addressed it and didn't issue an apology out of fear of being canceled, because I personally don't think he needs to apologize. He was baited by a bigot for a reaction, and unfortunately Jason took the bait.
If anything the idiot that baited Jason is the one who needs to apologize.
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