Police investigate Jason Kelce incident as NFL icon admits regret over outburst

Jason Kelce's altercation with a Penn State instrumentality is being investigated by assemblage police, with the NFL fable expressing regret implicit his outburst during a TV appearance

Penn State University Police are investigating a heated speech involving Jason Kelce and a instrumentality earlier the Penn State vs Ohio State crippled connected Saturday.

The Philadelphia Eagles and NFL fable was taunted by a Nittany Lions instrumentality arsenic helium approached Beaver Stadium, and things escalated erstwhile a homophobic insult was hurled astatine him regarding his member Travis' romance with Taylor Swift.

"Kelce, how's it consciousness [that] your brother's a f----- [for] dating Taylor Swift," the instrumentality jeered successful a video that went viral online. The footage captures Kelce enduring respective jibes earlier losing his cool, seizing the heckler's telephone and throwing it to the ground.

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Kelce, who present works for ESPN, retorted to the heckler: "Who's the f----- now?" - arsenic different bystander intervened to defuse the situation. Kelce faced disapproval for echoing the slur initially aimed astatine his member – a celebrated four-time All-Pro choky extremity with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Despite this, helium besides garnered sizeable sympathy for being the people of specified seemingly unwarranted vitriol.

Kelce expressed his regret connected 'Monday Night Football', unrecorded connected ESPN. He said: "I'm not blessed with thing that took place. I'm not arrogant of it. In a heated moment, I chose to greet hatred with hate, and I conscionable don't deliberation that's a productive thing. I truly don't. I don't deliberation that it leads to sermon and it's the close mode to spell astir things. In that moment, I fell down to a level that I shouldn't have.

"I deliberation 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 going to support doing that going guardant adjacent though I fell abbreviated this week. I'm going to bash that moving forward."

Penn State University Police are present investigating the incident, arsenic it was registered connected the department's online log connected Saturday. The study stated an "officer observed a visitant damaging idiosyncratic property". Criminal mischief and disorderly behaviour were listed arsenic the imaginable offences committed.

Penn State University nationalist accusation serviceman Jacqueline Sheader told the Associated Press the log related to Kelce's incident. Sheader besides said an probe is ongoing.