Jason Kelce incident at PSU

Honestly, I think the kid (and I use that word very, very loosely as he is closer to 20 than he is 10) 'fucked around and found out'. Should have Jason responded differently? Well yeah. There is room for growth on both parties.....


Edited to add: If Kelce was my husband, I wouldn't be upset at all. If the 'kid' was my kid, I also would not be upset that his phone got broke. Id be upset that he was harassing someone. 

The kid was an absolute jerk. Who does that?

Kelce needs to learn some self control. The kid was baiting him but trashing the kid’s phone wasn’t the way to handle the situation.  If he wants to keep his job with ESPN he needs to learn to control his temper, he’s not on a football field anymore.

I don't know anything about this incident other than what you have posted but from the info here it sounds like the kid got what he deserved.

They were both wrong. The kid is an asshole and he and his parents need to be dox’d and shamed into oblivion. Kelce was an asshole for not controlling his temper.

The kid was definitely way out of line. Also, Kelce needs to use caution in these public situations. As a wealthy celebrity he is at risk of crazy lawsuits. And unfortunately there are people who worship someone who tweets "I hate Taylor Swift" and now they hate her and her boyfriend and his brother!

Ummm
No no one should be doxxed? WTF why would you dox a college kids parents because their child was stupid on the internet? To what end? I’m sure they’ll hear enough about it from people that already know the kid.

Kid was an asshole - he fucked around & found out. I have no fucks to give for his phone. 🤷‍♀️

Kelce should have handled it better. I’m sure he will deal with any consequences as they come up. 🤷‍♀️

As a parent if that kid were mine I’d be so angry but neither of mine would ever do that. Not that mine are perfect or anything but they wouldn’t insult random people like that. If mine got angry enough, the insult would be direct not to a sibling and that word is not one they use.

However, both mine are over 18 and not on my phone plan so I have no control over them. Perhaps that might be the situation for that ‘kids’ parents.

I'm actually not sure how I feel about it. Under normal circumstances I would say that neither of them was in the right. However, the thing that complicates it for me is that the kid was using the phone in question to record him. I'm wondering how many celebs have had similar run ins with paparazzi and are not made a big deal. I assume Kelce will replace the phone but I don't begrudge him not wanting to be tape recorded. And let's face it, the kids words were abhorrent.

#1. I like mom 's way of summing it up. I wouldn't be angry with Kelce if her were my husband.* (more on that in #2.) I would be angry is that "kid" was my kid.

#2. If Kelce was my husband, and he let his temper get away from him with any regularity while in public, then I would change my opinion in #1. (see more after list)

#3. I can't condone Kelce's actions, yet I understand them, and I do appreciate that he didn't resort to violence against the "kid" for acting like an a$$hole. I hope in the future he'll try harder not to take the bait, though. For his own sake as well of that of his family. (see more after list)


The "more" after the list:

My DH is and was very mild-mannered at home, but he used to have a short fuse when out in public, and it took awhile for me to get him to really see what I was saying when I would ask him to settle himself down in those situations. You know if someone pulled a d!ck move while driving, he'd need to yell at them. Some guy cuts in line at a store, DH had to say something, and then both guys are yelling at one another. It wasn't cool. PLUS, it was worrying, because you never know when the person you're having the altercation with might be a psycho.

And so I laid it out. I said look, you yell at any random driver, you're possibly putting yourself in danger, which ticks me off, but that's ultimately on you. BUT now you're also possibly putting ME in danger, and if you're okay with that, then we have an issue. And he did change, chill out, and over time, those altercations completely stopped. So that's what I'm referring to with Kelce. For his sake and the sake of anyone with him, I hope he can learn to ignore it when people come at him like that. (Unless they are trying to be physical, of course. Self defense is a whole other subject.)



(ETA: I read that the kid shoved him after all of this.  I have no idea how likely it was that the kids could take Kelce on, but he still had no right putting his hands on a another person.)

This wasn't just a "one and done" utterance from the "kid" - he was following Kelce around and baiting him non-stop. And filming to get a reaction the whole time.

Kelce is a beast - it was his job to take down guys on the football field. Baiting him and chirping him non-stop? He's lucky his phone is all that got smashed.

I agree - he FOFO.

As for the idea of dragging the kids' parents into this? I'm really discouraged with the dox and shame culture that exists today. I don't know anything more about this situation than what I've read here, but what I've read here in no way indicates that the parent(s) did anything wrong.

I know families where the majority of kids are all great, happy, decent, successful adults or young adults---and then there's the one kid who doesn't fit into that description. They are the one with one issue after another, one bad choice after another. And the parents are standing there saying "How did this happen??" And all of the other siblings are standing there saying "How did this happen?"

Furthermore, for as crappy as this guy's actions were, I'm willing to still hope that at some point in the future, he might see those actions as awful, too. I'm tired of the idea that if someone does something wrong they can never have a chance to be better later. But nope, the internet today hears a story, and decides we have to ruin the lives of as many people as possible, all under the guise of justice. Because that's what doxing and shaming does--it ruins lives. People get harassed. People get death threats. People lose jobs. And people, fairly or not, have their names associated with some instance forever since the internet will keep spitting that story back up every so often, as it tends to do with all content.

Both were stupid but at some point people that bait celebrities need to be held accountable.
Now at age 20, 40, 70, I don’t care, My kid said something like that I’d have spiked his phone and punched him in the face myself. And then made them film a public apology.

That kid also needs to learn self control. What kind of person says those kinds of things to another human out loud?