Jason Kelce Breaks His Silence connected Phone Smashing Incident: "I'm Not Proud of It"
Travis Kelce knows all excessively well how his brother Jason Kelce is feeling.
The Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity comforted the ESPN analogous during their Nov. 6 New Heights podcast occurrence aft Jason made headlines for an altercation with a heckler.
“I cognize it’s weighing connected you, brother,” Travis told Jason. “That s--t sucks. You shouldn’t consciousness this much, evidently the scrutiny and the media presumption connected it and everybody passing astir the videos that are retired there. That’s gonna marque it a bigger concern than what it truly is.”
And for those wondering precisely what went down, Travis clarified, noting, “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 mightiness person utilized immoderate words that you regret using.”
However, the Grotesquerie prima is viewing the ordeal arsenic a teachable moment.
“That’s a concern you conscionable gotta benignant of larn from and own,” helium said. “And I deliberation you owning it and speaking it, shows however sincere you are to a batch of radical successful this world.”
The concern successful question happened Nov. 2 extracurricular of Beaver Stadium astatine Penn State University, erstwhile 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?"
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The ESPN NFL expert past turned astir and responded, "Who's the [homophobic slur] now?" earlier smashing the man's phone.
"I'm not blessed astir the situation, maine reacting gave him the clip of time and it besides gave the concern notoriety," Jason said connected New Heights. "That's what I regret. It didn't merit attention, it's truly stupid."
The 36-year-old continued saying that the "thing that I regret the astir is saying that word, 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."
At the extremity of the day, Jason admitted, the antheral got nether his skin. “What I bash regret,” helium noted, “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."
However, Travis made his stance clear, concluding, “I emotion you, brother. I deliberation you said that perfectly.”
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