ESPN 'will not punish Jason Kelce for smashing fan's phone to the ground' as police investigation continues

Jason Kelce's bosses astatine ESPN person opted not to punish the erstwhile Eagles prima for smashing a fan's telephone to the ground successful a furious confrontation, according to reports.

Kelce rapidly went viral connected Saturday erstwhile helium traveled to Penn State University to look connected the network's College GameDay program.

He was walking done a assemblage of radical erstwhile 1 antheral called his member Travis a 'f****t' for dating Taylor Swift, starring to an aggravated Kelce grabbing his phone.

He smashed it to the crushed and shouted backmost astatine the man, 'Who is the f****t now?', starring to a police probe which is inactive ongoing.

It appears, though, that Kelce volition debar interior punishment astatine ESPN, with Front Office Sports reporting that the network's bosses are not readying immoderate further enactment for their newest NFL analyst.

Kelce has been a hugely fashionable summation to Monday Night Football, appearing play successful the aftermath of his status from the Philadelphia Eagles earlier this year.

On this week's MNF show, Kelce offered a unrecorded on-air apology for the incidental implicit the weekend, which divided fans online, with galore claiming helium shouldn't person had to accidental atrocious for the enactment with the fan. 

At the commencement of the broadcast, helium apologized to viewers for 'falling short' of his accustomed levels of 'common decency and respect'.

'I deliberation everybody has seen connected societal media what happened this week,' Kelce said. 'Listen, I'm not blessed with thing that took place. I'm not arrogant of it.

'In a heated infinitesimal I chose to greet hatred with hatred and I conscionable don't deliberation that's a productive thing, I truly don't. I don't deliberation it leads to sermon and it's the close mode to spell astir things. In that infinitesimal I fell down to a level that I shouldn't have.

'The bottommost enactment is, I effort to unrecorded my beingness by the aureate rule, that's what I've ever been taught; I effort to dainty radical with communal decency and respect, and I'm gonna support doing that moving forward.

'Even though I fell abbreviated this week, I'm gonna bash that moving guardant and proceed to bash that.'

Several societal media users, including Barstool Sports laminitis Dave Portnoy, were near furious astatine his apology earlier the Chiefs vs Bucs game, with immoderate hitting retired astatine ESPN and accusing the web of making it happen.

Portnoy said connected X: 'The lone happening Kelce should person apologized for is possibly utilizing the F word. But anybody with a encephalon knows helium was conscionable repeating what was said to him. If helium called him a p***y, b***h, a**hole that woulda been the connection helium used. Golden regularisation was applied perfectly. He treated that feline precisely however helium deserved to beryllium treated.'