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No charges for Jason Kelce over phone incident after slur directed at brother

Police will not charge Jason Kelce over an altercation with a fan before a game between Penn State and Ohio State in November
  
  

Jason and Travis Kelce have developed a successful podcast career.
Jason and Travis Kelce have developed a successful podcast career. Photograph: David Calvert/Getty Images for American Century Investments

Police will not charge Jason Kelce over an altercation with a fan before a game between Penn State and Ohio State in November.

Penn State University police said in a statement that the case was closed. “The individual in the video footage circulating on social media has not been identified, and no one has come forward to University Police with a related complaint about damage to personal property,” read the statement.

Video on social media showed the retired Philadelphia Eagles center mixing with fans before the Penn State-Ohio State. One fan then asked Kelce: “How does it feel that your brother [Travis] is a faggot for dating Taylor Swift?” Kelce then appeared to grab the fan’s phone, slam it to the ground and say: “Who’s the faggot now?”

Kelce was at Penn State as part of ESPN’s broadcast of the game. A few days later, he was an analyst for ESPN’s coverage of the Kansas City Chiefs’ victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and addressed that weekend’s incident.

“In a heated moment, I decided to greet hate with hate,” Kelce said before the broadcast of the Buccaneers-Chiefs game. “I fell short this week.”

Travis Kelce has been in a high-profile relationship with Swift for a year and co-hosts a hugely popular podcast with Jason, who retired at the end of last season after 13 years with the Eagles.

“I think the bottom line is, I try to live my life by the golden rule,” Jason Kelce said of the incident. “That’s what I’ve always been taught. I try to treat people with common decency and respect, and I’m going to keep doing that going forward even though I fell short … I’m going to do that moving forward.”

In August the Kelce brothers signed a $100m, three-year deal with Wondery for their New Heights podcast.

 

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