According to sources, Jason Kelce’s ESPN superiors decided not to discipline the former Eagles player for angrily confronting a fan by smashing a phone to the ground. On Saturday, Kelce swiftly became well-known after heading to Penn State University to cover the College GameDay show on TV. One man called his brother Travis a “f****t” for dating Taylor Swift, which infuriated Kelce grabbing his phone as he was passing through a throng of people.
Leading to a police inquiry still under progress, he crushed it to the ground and yelled out at the man, “Who is the f****t now?” Kelce seems to evade internal discipline at ESPN, though, according to Front Office Sports, which reports that the network executives are not intending any more action for their newest NFL commentator.
Following his retirement from the Philadelphia Eagles earlier this year, Kelce has been a highly popular addition to Monday Night Football appearing weekly. Kelce apologized live on-air for the episode over the weekend on this week’s MNF show, which split viewers online. Many claimed he shouldn’t have had to say sorry for the interaction with the fan.
He apologized to viewers at the beginning of the broadcast for ‘falling short’ of his usual standards of ‘common decency and respect’. ‘Everyone has seen on social media what happened this week,’ Kelce added. Listen; nothing that happened makes me pleased. I don’t feel good about it. “In a flash I decided to welcome hatred with hate and I simply don’t think that’s a good thing—that’s truly not. It’s the correct approach to approach things and I doubt it sparks conversation. In that instant I dropped to a level I shouldn’t have been at.
‘The bottom line is, that’s what I’ve always been taught; I try to treat people with common decency and respect; I’m going to keep doing that moving ahead. I try to live my life by the golden rule. ‘Even if I fell short this week, I’m going to do that moving ahead and keep doing that.’
Before the Chiefs vs. Buccaneers, several social media users—including Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports—were left enraged with his apologies; some even attacked ESPN and claimed the network had facilitated it.
On X, Portnoy said: “The only thing Kelce should have apologized for is maybe saying the F word. But everyone with a brain understands he was merely echoing what he had heard. Should he refer to him as a p***y, b***h, a**hole that would have been the term employed. Perfect use of golden rule was made. He handled the man precisely as he deserved to be treated.
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