Jason Kelce Shares Biggest Regret About Phone-Smashing Incident

During the Nov. 2 incidental extracurricular of Beaver Stadium astatine Penn State University, a antheral approached Jason with his telephone up and asked, "Kelce, however does it consciousness that your member is simply a [homophobic slur] for dating Taylor Swift?"

The ESPN NFL expert past turned astir and responded, "Who's the [homophobic slur] now?" earlier smashing the man's phone.

The 36-year-old continued saying that the "thing that I regret the astir is saying that connection to beryllium honorable with you. The connection helium utilized it's conscionable f--king ridiculous, and it takes it to different level. It's conscionable disconnected the wall, f--king implicit the line."

"It's dehumanizing and it got nether my skin, it elicited a reaction," Jason went on. "In the vigor of the moment, I thought 'Hey, what tin I accidental backmost to him? I'm going to propulsion this s--t close backmost successful his face. F--k him.' What I bash regret, is present there's a video that is precise hateful, that is present online that has been seen by millions of radical and I stock responsibility successful perpetuating it and having that retired there."

Travis backed his older member up, praised him for owning his mistakes and and urged him to usage the concern arsenic a learning lesson.

"The existent concern is you had immoderate f--king clown travel up to you and speech astir your household and you reacted successful a mode that was defending your family, and you might've utilized immoderate words that you regret using," helium shared. "That's a concern you've conscionable got to larn from and own. I deliberation you owning it and you speaking astir it shows however sincere you are to a batch of radical successful this world."

The Kansas City Chiefs subordinate went connected to vouch for Jason's character, telling him, "You don't take hate, that's conscionable not who you are. I emotion you brother, I deliberation you said that perfectly."

Jason had previously breached his silence connected the incidental during ESPN's Nov. 4 occurrence of Monday Night Countdown.

"I'm not blessed with thing that took place. I'm not arrogant of it," helium said. "And successful a heated moment, I chose to greet hatred with hate, and I conscionable don't deliberation that that's a productive thing."

"I don't deliberation that it leads to sermon and it's the close mode to spell astir things," Jason continued. "In that moment, I fell down to a level that I shouldn't have. So, I deliberation the bottommost enactment is, I effort to unrecorded my beingness by the aureate rule—it’s what I've ever been taught—I effort to dainty radical with communal decency and respect, and I'm going to support doing that moving forward, adjacent though I fell abbreviated this week."