{"id":13712,"date":"2024-11-08T04:08:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T04:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=13712"},"modified":"2024-11-08T04:08:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T04:08:09","slug":"travis-kelce-defends-jason-kelce-after-phone-smashing-altercation-with-heckling-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=13712","title":{"rendered":"Travis Kelce defends Jason Kelce after phone-smashing altercation with heckling fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After Jason Kelce defended his brother from a heckling fan last week, Travis Kelce returned the favor on their\u00a0<em>New Heights<\/em>\u00a0podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Kelce was at Penn State for\u00a0<em>College GameDay<\/em>\u00a0last weekend when an unruly fan sparked an altercation by calling his brother a homophobic slur. Kelce responded by smashing the fan\u2019s phone to the ground and calling him the same homophobic slur.<\/p>\n<p>Despite most people\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/podcasts\/gojo-and-golic-jason-kelce-incident-homophobic-slur-fan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>supporting Kelce<\/em><\/a>\u00a0for defending his brother in the heat of the moment, the former Philadelphia Eagles center opened\u00a0<em>Monday Night Countdown<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/espn\/jason-kelce-apologizes-altercation-fan-penn-state-monday-night-countdown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>apologizing for the incident<\/em><\/a>. Jason expressed similar remorse for the incident on the latest episode of their\u00a0<em>New Heights<\/em>\u00a0podcast, regretting that he gave the heckling fan the attention he sought. Travis, however, came to his brother\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ql-video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yUfrQY9v0-A?si=54YGIi2DyH_L_8fL\" width=\"760\" height=\"430\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know it\u2019s weighing on you brother, that s*** sucks,\u201d Travis said. \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t feel this much, obviously the scrutiny and the media view on it and everybody passing around the videos that are being out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s gonna make it a bigger situation than, I think, what it really is. But, the real situation is you had some f***ing clown come up to you and talk about your family and you reacted in a way that was defending your family. And, you might have used some words that you regret using. And, that\u2019s a situation that where you just kinda have to learn from and own. And I think you owning it and you speaking about it shows how sincere you are to a lot of people in this world.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"qcmgidgb2\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Jason reiterated that using the returning the homophobic \u201cF-slur\u201d back at the fan was his biggest regret. In the heat of the moment, however, he explained wanting to \u201cthrow that sh*t right back in his face, because f*** him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Jason Kelce used a homophobic slur, but the common belief is that he probably would have thrown whatever word the heckling fan used back at him. It just so happens that it was a homophobic slur. Because of that, his apology for using the word seems sincere, while his apology for the entire altercation remains unnecessary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; After Jason Kelce defended his brother from a heckling fan last week, Travis Kelce returned the favor on their\u00a0New Heights\u00a0podcast. Jason Kelce was at Penn State for\u00a0College GameDay\u00a0last &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13714,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13712\/revisions\/13714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}