EVERYONE was on Jason Kelce‘s side with this fan interaction… until he did one thing. In case you haven’t seen…
The New Heights co-host was at Penn State on Saturday for the game against Ohio State. While walking on the campus, a crowd started to gather around the retired Philadelphia Eagles center to cheer him on, with many looking to get a fist bump from the local legend. However, one troll took terrible internet behavior to the streets, following Jason with a phone while spewing a homophobic slur directed at his brother Travis Kelce for dating Taylor Swift. Yeah. One of those.
Related: What Taylor Thought Of Travis’ Controversial Sex Talk!
In multiple viral videos of the incident posted on X (Twitter), the so-called fan can be heard yelling:
Jason surprised the troll by getting physical. He turned around with those all-star reflexes, snatched the phone, and SLAMMED it on the ground! Then he picked it up off the ground and kept walking. Watch (below):
But that wasn’t the end of it.
The fan ran up to him demanding his phone. Jason, who had been holding an open can of beer and an entire 12-pack in his other hand the whole time, put down the phone and faced the kid. And this is where he lost some support, because he repeated the slur aloud, demanding:
Now, two days later Jason was back on live TV, doing his Monday Night Football broadcast — covering his brother’s game, as it turns out. Naturally, with this thing going so viral, ESPN couldn’t just ignore it. So before the game coverage could begin, Jason took a moment to address what happened, saying:
See his comments (below):
It’s not technically an apology. Not that anyone really thinks the troll deserves one here, smashed phone or no. The thing is, there isn’t even a consensus on whether he owes the LGBTQ+ community an apology!
See, we’ve obviously heard a lot of folks offended that Jason repeated the F-bomb…
However, there were a LOT of voices on Gay Twitter saying he was NOT in the wrong because of the context.
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