(WJW) – Retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce spoke out Monday after a video of him slamming someone’s cell phone went viral over the weekend.
The video, which was posted to X on Saturday afternoon, showed Jason Kelce being heckled by a person who was heard calling his younger brother Travis Kelce a homophobic slur over his relationship with Taylor Swift. Jason Kelce then grabbed the heckler’s phone and slammed it to the ground before picking it up and taking it with him.
In another video, the man demanded Jason Kelce give him the phone back, to which Kelce responded using the same homophobic slur.
“I’m not happy with anything that took place. I’m not proud of it,” Kelce said during “Monday Night Countdown” 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 don’t think that it leads to discourse.”
The 36-year-old said that in that moment, he fell to a level that he shouldn’t have.
“I tried 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’m going to keep doing that moving forward, even though I fell short this week. I’m going to do that moving forward.”
The phone-smashing incident happened Saturday in Pennsylvania after a game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Penn State Nittany Lions.
