Penn State Police and Public Safety are investigating the incident between Jason Kelce and an unidentified fan at State College and the “process is ongoing,” a university spokesperson confirmed to The Post in an email.
Kelce was seen in a now-viral video smashing the phone of a young man who had been walking behind the former NFL lineman and heckling him on Saturday.
The fan used a homophobic slur when taunting Kelce about his brother, Travis and girlfriend Taylor Swift.
The university police’s daily crime log for that day listed an incident where an “officer observed a visitor damaging personal property” at Curtin Road and Commuter Drive, which is right near Beaver Stadium.
Several videos that made their way to social media showed Jason Kelce, who had been in State College on Penn State’s campus to take part in ESPN’s “College Gameday,” walking near Beaver Stadium while fans walked nearby shouting his name and trying to get high fives.
Things turned when one fan shouted at Kelce, “Hey Kelce how does it feel that your brother is a f—–t for dating Taylor Swift?”
The former Eagle quickly did an about-face and confronted the individual and grabbed his phone, before smashing it to the ground.
The unidentified individual then pushed Kelce as he went to pick it up and the man, who was wearing a Penn State sweatshirt, could be heard demanding, “give me my phone, Kelce.”
That’s when Kelce shot back, “who’s the f—-t now?” several times before finally walking away from the incident.
It’s unclear if someone had reported the altercation to university police.
ESPN declined to comment when reached by The Post on Monday night.
Kelce did address the situation at the top of ESPN’s “Monday Night Countdown” ahead of the Buccaneers-Chiefs game.
A contrite Kelce said that he was “not happy with anything that took place” on Saturday and added that “I’m not proud of it.”
“I think, the bottom line is, I try to live my life by the Golden Rule,” he said on air Monday night. “It’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 moving forward even though I fell short this week.”
Kelce did appear to receive plenty of support though from fans and even Penn State football coach James Franklin.
During his Monday news conference, Franklin seemed to applaud the “consequence” that the fan faced for his actions toward Kelce.
“I love that that person, there was a consequence to his action,” Franklin said. “Can it go too far sometimes and we talk about the passion and all those things being great? Yes. But that also doesn’t excuse bad behavior at times. It comes with the territory, but that doesn’t make it right.”
