‘Love you brother’: Travis Kelce speaks on brother’s phone spike defense of him at Penn State in recent episode of the New Heights ” I know it’s weighing on you Travis said But you did….Read more

The beginning of the latest episode of the New Heights Podcast was more solemn than most as Travis and Jason Kelce discussed the eldest brother’s actions during an incident at Penn State over the weekend.

Jason, responding to a heckler criticizing Travis for dating pop star Taylor Swift, turned and grabbed a phone, spiking it in the process. Video on social media showed him walking through a crowd near Beaver Stadium and fans asking for photos and fist bumps when one fan began to heckle him and appeared to shout an anti-gay slur directed toward his brother for dating Swift.

When ESPN opened Monday Night Countdown from Arrowhead Stadium ahead of a 30-24 Kansas City Chiefs victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jason apologized, saying he “decided to greet hate with hate. I feel short this week.”

On Wednesday, the Kelce brothers discussed the incident on the latest edition of the New Heights Podcast.

“I’m going to talk about this one more time and then hopefully, we can stop talking about this really stupid situation,” Jason said.

“I’m with you, man,” Travis said.

“I’m not happy about the situation,” Jason said. “Me reacting gave him the time of day and it also gave this situation notoriety. That’s what I regret. It didn’t deserve attention, it’s really stupid, and if I just keep walking it’s a f—— nothing burger. Nobody sees it and now it’s out there and it just perpetuates hate.

“The word he used is just ridiculous and it takes it to another level,” Jason said. “It’s just off the wall, f—— over the line. In the heat of the moment, I thought ‘What can I say that will get back at him, I’ll throw it right back in his face, because f— him. I know now I shouldn’t have done that.”

Penn State police are now investigating the incident between the retired Philadelphia Eagles center and the fan. A police department incident log included an entry registered Saturday in which “an officer observed a visitor damaging personal property.”

“I know it’s weighing on you,” Travis said on the podcast, two days after the Chiefs improved to 8-0 in 2024 with a win that included a career-high 14 catches for the 35-year-old tight end. “That s— sucks. You shouldn’t feel this much — obviously the scrutiny and the media view on it is everybody passing around the video of it — that’s going to make it a bigger situation than I think it really is.”

Travis continued: “The real situation is you had some f—— clown come up to you and talk about your family and you reacted in a way that was defending your family, and you might have used some words that you regret using. That’s a situation where you’ve gotta learn from it, and I think you owning it and you speaking about it shows how sincere you are to a lot of people in this world.