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Jason Kelce throws off phone over Penn State F-Slur incident

Jason Kelce throws off phone over Penn State F-Slur incident

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Talk about an offensive line, man. He was there for ESPN College GameDay, but Jason Kelce wasn't playing any games when he was harassed during a visit to Penn State University on Saturday. In now viral footagethe retired Philadelphia Eagles football player, grabbed a phone and threw it on the ground after someone called his brother Travis the F slur because he was dating Taylor Swift. Using a homophobic slur is bad enough, and using it to describe a man dating a woman is just plain weird. It's not clear on the video who shouted the insult, but Kelce seemed to think the perpetrator was someone wearing a Penn State hoodie who was filming him. Kelce initially received a lot of praise online for not dropping the comment, including from fans of his possible future sister-in-law. “He did all this with garage beer in his hand and a friendship bracelet on his wrist, this man needs a medal,” one Swiftie tweeted approvingly. But reactions became a little more mixed when another aspect of the incident came to light, this time apparently showing Kelce saying the insult right back — when the person in a Penn State hoodie tried to retrieve her phone, Kelce appeared to asking, “Who is the f—— now?”

Given that Kelces New heights Podcast just made a $100 million deal with his brother in August, we doubt he'd be upset about it even if he had to pay for any damage to the device. Campus police told Page Six that no report had been filed about the incident as of Saturday afternoon. Honestly, it's probably easier to buy a new phone than to call yourself the new enemy of the Internet.

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