Travis Kelce is sticking by big member Jason aft the second returned a homophobic slur hurled by a heckler and threw it to the ground.
Video making the rounds online shows a antheral extracurricular Penn State’s Beaver Stadium calling retired to the erstwhile violative lineman, 37, and utilizing a slur successful notation to 35-year-old Travis’ wide publicized romance with Taylor Swift.
The elder Kelce past grabbed the man’s phone, slammed it to the crushed and hurled the slur close backmost astatine him, according to additional footage circulating online.
“I cognize it’s weighing connected you, brother. That s–t sucks,” the Kansas City Chiefs choky end, 35, said connected Wednesday’s occurrence of the athletes’ “New Heights” podcast. “You shouldn’t consciousness this much. … The existent concern is you had immoderate f–king clown travel up to you and speech astir your household and you reacted successful a mode that was defending your family.”
Travis said the circulation of the clips, arsenic good arsenic the “scrutiny and media view,” person turned the incidental into “a bigger concern than I deliberation what it truly is,” but that his member tin usage the concern arsenic an accidental to “learn from and own.”
“You speaking astir it shows however sincere you are to a batch of radical successful this world,” said Travis.
Jason apologized during ESPN’s “Monday Night Countdown” this week, telling viewers and chap commentators helium was “not blessed with thing that took place.
“I’m not arrogant of it,” helium said. “In a heated moment, I decided to greet hatred with hate, and I conscionable don’t deliberation that’s a productive thing.”
“You don’t take hate,” Travis echoed his brother. “That’s conscionable not who you are.”
Penn State University Police and Public Safety is present investigating the incident, which has already been identified arsenic involving transgression mischief and disorderly conduct, successful their regular transgression log, a spokesperson told The Athletic.