What would you do if a stranger called your sibling slurs and disrespects their private life? It’s probably the same thing that Jason Kelce did, right? Where’s all this against Travis Kelce coming from? Whatever it is, the retired NFL center must think a lot before taking any actions nowadays. Kelce is now a TV staple and ESPN doesn’t want to let the transgressions slip by.

When a person at the Penn State campus called Travis Kelce a “f—-t,” Jason turned around, confronted him, and broke his phone. The elder Kelce brother now regrets the decision and chose to apologize on Monday Night Countdown before the matchup against the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

“You know, listen, I think everybody has seen on social media everything that took place this week. Listen, I’m not happy with anything that took place. I’m not proud of it and in a heated moment I chose to greet hate with hate and I just don’t think that’s a productive thing, I really don’t,” Jason Kelce said on the Monday Night Countdown.

Kelce also believes that “discourse” is not the correct way to do things and, in desperation, Jason Kelce stooped down to a level he shouldn’t have. A golden rule in Jason’s life is treating people with “common decency” and in that moment, he fell short. The elder Kelce brother didn’t want to get into the nitty-gritty of the incident on live television and wanted to focus on the Chiefs–Bucs game.

Did you feel like Kelce was pressured to apologize while watching that video? Many fans stick to the narrative of how ESPN threatened him for his job. Let’s find out what people think about the former Philadelphia Eagles center apologizing on live television.

Fans stand with Jason Kelce

One fan thought the sports giant ESPN had to pressure Jason Kelce into apologizing. “ESPN def made him do that. He did nothing wrong,” wrote the fan, in a reply to Dov Kleiman’s post on X.

A person also penned down a hypothetical dialogue that might have taken place between ESPN and Jason Kelce, saying, “Apologize or you’re fired.” A Kelce fan finds it outrageous that one has to bear the brunt of standing up with one’s family. Their response to Kleiman’s post on X was, “He didn’t do anything wrong, he stood up for his brother.”

Another one of Kelce’s well-wishers believes he shouldn’t have to apologize. They wrote, “They got to him. Jason had nothing to apologize for.” Another person just called ESPN “trash” for supposedly forcing him into a corner. “Anyone else would’ve been canned. @NFL & @espn= 🗑,” the fan wrote on X.

With all that being said, it seriously felt like Kelce was expressing his words with a heavy heart. Whether he was coerced into apologizing is a whole different matter altogether. What do you think?