Jason Kelce broke his silence over his viral phone swatting incident and apologized for his misconduct.
“I’m not happy with anything that took place. I’m not proud of it,” Kelce, 36, said during the Monday, November 4, episode of ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown ahead of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. “Within a heated moment, I chose to greet hate with hate and I don’t think that’s a productive thing. I don’t think it leads to discourse.”
The retired NFL player continued, “In that moment I fell down to a level that I shouldn’t have. Bottom line is, I try to live my life by the golden rules. That’s what I’ve always been taught. I try to treat people with decency and respect. I’m going to keep doing that moving forward.”
Kelce concluded by saying, “We got a Game to focus on. A matchup. I don’t think this is the platform to necessarily go into more detail.”
Jason made headlines on Saturday, November 2, when he hurled a heckler’s smartphone after the person made an offensive remark about his brother, Travis Kelce, and girlfriend Taylor Swift.
In the clip, Jason was confronted by a person asking, “How does it feel that your brother is a f— f— for dating Taylor Swift?”
Jason, who was outside Penn State University’s Beaver Stadium for an appearance on ESPN’s College GameDay, retaliated by grabbing the guy’s phone and throwing it down on the ground.
Footage later surfaced of Jason verbally responding to the altercation by saying, “Who’s the f— f— now?” three times.
Philadelphia radio host Jon Marks slammed Jason’s behavior via X on Saturday, writing, “Kelce has to realize that his profile is bigger than it ever was as a player.”
The PHLY Sports host explained why he believed that Jason throwing the phone was out of line. “He’s making big $$$ across multile [sic] platforms and his brother might marry the biggest pop star ever. He can’t be spiking people’s phones. He needs security to deal with this s—,” Marks added.
While Jason received some backlash for escalating the situation, many social media fans supported the former Philadelphia Eagles player for defending his brother, 35, and Swift, 34.
Travis and Swift have not publicly commented on the altercation.
Us Weekly confirmed on Monday that Penn State University Police are looking into the incident further. “University Police and Public Safety is the investigating agency for this incident and the process is ongoing,” PSU Police told Us in a statement.
Since Travis began dating Swift in summer 2023, Jason has been publicly supportive of their relationship. Last month, Jason and his wife, Kylie Kelce, flew to Miami on October 18 to cheer on Swift during one of her Eras Tour stops while Travis was stuck playing a Game for the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Jason, who previously attended two London Eras Tour shows, noted that it was “incredible” seeing Swift on home soil.
“I think part of it’s like, I don’t know if it’s the fact that we’re back in the U.S. — because I think the London crowd was incredible — but the rain and everything,” Jason explained. “Dude, it was, like, on another level.”
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