Jason Kelce apologizes for cellphone incident at Ohio State-Penn State before Bucs-Chiefs game

Retired Eagles halfway Jason Kelce has apologized aft grabbing nan telephone of an unruly instrumentality and spiking it to nan crushed earlier nan Ohio State-Penn State crippled past weekend

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Retired Eagles halfway Jason Kelce apologized during ESPN's pregame show Monday nighttime aft grabbing nan telephone of an unruly instrumentality and spiking it to nan crushed earlier nan Ohio State-Penn State crippled past weekend.

“In a heated moment, I decided to shake hands dislike pinch hate,” Kelce said earlier ESPN's broadcast of nan Buccaneers-Chiefs crippled featuring his brother, Kansas City tight extremity Travis Kelce. “I fell short this week.”

Jason Kelce was attending nan Big Ten matchup betwixt nan Buckeyes and Nittany Lions successful State College, Pennsylvania, erstwhile nan incident occurred. Video connected social media showed him stepping done a crowd adjacent Beaver Stadium and fans asking for photos and fist bumps erstwhile 1 instrumentality began to heckle him.

At that point, Kelce grabbed nan fan's telephone and threw it to nan ground, past turned to face nan man dressed successful Penn State attire. Another instrumentality appeared to measurement betwixt them earlier nan altercation could escalate.

“I deliberation everybody has seen connected societal media what happened this week,” Kelce said connected nan ESPN broadcast. "Listen, I’m not happy pinch thing that took place. I’m not proud of it. In a heated infinitesimal I chose to shake hands dislike pinch dislike and I conscionable don’t deliberation that’s a productive thing, I really don’t. I don’t deliberation it leads to sermon and it’s nan correct measurement to spell astir things. In that infinitesimal I fell down to a level that I shouldn’t have.

“The bottommost statement is, I effort to unrecorded my life by nan aureate rule, that’s what I’ve ever been taught,” he said. “I effort to dainty group pinch communal decency and respect, and I’m going to support doing that moving forward.”

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