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Jason Kelce Breaks His Silence on Phone Smashing Incident: "I'm Not Proud of It"
Jason Kelce is in the clear.
The former Philadelphia Eagles player won't face charges in relation to a phone-smashing incident outside of a football game at Penn State University Nov. 2, campus police confirmed to People Dec. 11.
Videos shared on social media from the altercation showed Jason walking through a crowd outside of Beaver Stadium and smashing the phone of a man who allegedly called his younger brother, Travis Kelce, a homophobic slur for dating Taylor Swift. After slamming the phone on the ground, the 37-year-old ESPN commentator repeated the slur, picked up the phone and kept walking.
"The individual in the video footage circulating on social media has not been identified," Jacqueline Sheader, a public information officer with the Penn State University Campus Police Department, told People, "and no one has come forward to University Police with a related complaint about damage to personal property."
As such, the PIO added, the investigation surrounding the incident has officially been closed.
Jason previously discussed the situation four days after it happened.
"I'm just gonna address it," he told his brother on their New Heights podcast Nov. 6. "I feel like it needs one more time and then hopefully we can stop talking about this really stupid situation."
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"I'm not happy about the situation, me reacting gave him the time of day and it also gave the situation notoriety," he continued. "That's what I regret. It didn't deserve attention, it's really stupid."
Ultimately, the father of four—who shares daughters Wyatt, 5, Elliotte, 3, and Bennett, 20 months, with wife Kylie Kelce, who is pregnant with a fourth baby—expressed immense regret for even engaging with the heckler.
"If I just keep walking, it's a f--king nothingburger, nobody sees it," Jason explained. "Now, it's out there and it just perpetuates more hate."
"Thing that I regret the most is saying that word to be honest with you," he added. "The word he used it's just f--king ridiculous, and it takes it to another level. It's just off the wall, f--king over the line."
His younger brother also defended his actions and empathized with the difficult situation he'd found himself in that day.
"I know it’s weighing on you, brother,” the Kansas City Chiefs player said during the same podcast episode. "That s--t sucks. You shouldn’t feel this much, obviously the scrutiny and the media view on it and everybody passing around the videos that are out there. That’s gonna make it a bigger situation than what it really is."
“That’s a situation you just gotta kind of learn from and own,” Travis added. “And I think you owning it and speaking it, shows how sincere you are to a lot of people in this world.”
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