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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Retired Eagles center Jason Kelce apologized during ESPN\u2019s pregame show Monday night after grabbing the phone of an unruly fan and spiking it to the ground before the Ohio State-Penn State game last weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn a heated moment, I decided to greet hate with hate,\u201d Kelce said before ESPN\u2019s broadcast of the Buccaneers-Chiefs game featuring his brother, Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce. \u201cI fell short this week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jason Kelce was attending the Big Ten matchup between the Buckeyes and Nittany Lions in State College, Pennsylvania, on Saturday when the incident occurred. Video on social media showed him walking through a crowd near Beaver Stadium and fans asking for photos and fist bumps when one fan began to heckle him and appeared to shout an anti-gay slur directed toward his brother for dating Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n
At that point, Kelce grabbed the fan\u2019s phone and threw it to the ground, then turned to confront the man dressed in Penn State attire. Kelce appeared to use the same anti-gay slur during the exchange before another fan stepped between them before the altercation could escalate.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think everybody has seen on social media what happened this week,\u201d Kelce said on the ESPN broadcast. \u201cListen, I\u2019m not happy with anything that took place. I\u2019m not proud of it. In a heated moment I chose to greet hate with hate and I just don\u2019t think that\u2019s a productive thing, I really don\u2019t. I don\u2019t think it leads to discourse and it\u2019s the right way to go about things. In that moment I fell down to a level that I shouldn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bottom line is, I try to live my life by the golden rule, that\u2019s what I\u2019ve always been taught,\u201d he said. \u201cI try to treat people with common decency and respect, and I\u2019m going to keep doing that moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
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