Jason Kelce Says He’s ‘Not Proud’ of Incident With Heckler Who Bashed Travis Kelce for Dating Taylor Swift
Jason Kelce is taking responsibility after a heated clash with a heckler who insulted Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift went viral earlier this week.
On the latest episode of Monday Night Countdown, the retired Philadelphia Eagles center opened the show with his co-hosts by addressing the incident — which found Jason smashing the phone of an instigator who’d called his little brother a homophobic slur — head on. “Everybody’s seen on social media everything that took place this week,” he began. “Listen, I’m not happy with anything that took place.”
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“I’m not proud of it,” Jason continued with a solemn expression. “In a heated moment, I chose to greet hate with hate, and I just don’t think that that’s a productive thing.”
The moment in question went down at the Ohio State vs. Penn State football game Saturday (Nov. 2), where onlookers filmed as a heckler taunted Jason by saying, “Hey, Kelce! How does it feel your brother’s a f—– dating Taylor Swift?”
Jason then turned around, grabbed the heckler’s phone and threw it to the ground before picking it back up and walking away. As the instigator chased him down trying to retrieve the phone, the New Heights podcaster again turned around and said, “Who’s the f—– now?”
“In that moment, I fell down to a level that I shouldn’t have,” Jason reflected on Monday Night Countdown. “Bottom line is, I try to live my life by the Golden Rule … treat people with common decency and respect. I’m going to keep doing that moving forward, even though I fell short this week.”
Penn State University Police confirmed to The New York Times on Tuesday (Nov. 5) they they are investigating the incident.
Travis and the “Anti-Hero” singer have been dating since summer 2023, since which time Swift has become close with Jason and the Kelce brothers’ parents, Donna and Ed. At the Kansas City Chiefs vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers game Monday (Nov. 4), the 14-time Grammy winner watched the tight end play alongside Jason and Donna in a box suite at Arrowhead Stadium.
Jason has also been indoctrinated into Swiftieland since his little brother’s romance with the star began. In October, the elder Kelce attended Swift’s Eras Tour show in Miami and afterward raved on New Heights, “It was on another level … When Reputation came on, and she came out in the new outfit, and the rain was coming down, the place could’ve f–king erupted.”
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