Autograph seeker snaps at Jason Kelce in wild confrontation
An autograph seeker went berserk on Jason Kelce after the former NFL center and ESPN personality passed the person by without signing an autograph as he left filming an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Thursday night.
Video obtained by TMZ showed the bizarre scene playing out behind the studio in Hollywood, as several people looking for autographs waited for Kelce, leading one individual to snap when Kelce didn’t stop to sign.
“You ain’t nobody special!” the man could be heard yelling at the start of the video. “You’re some s–tbag, f–king guy that thinks he’s on some pedestal!”
The person continued to yell at Kelce that he was upset over “the attitude” before yelling that there “is death in these f–king streets two blocks away and you’re being a d–k.”
Kelce attempted to explain that he doesn’t sign autographs for “people that follow where I’m going.”
But that didn’t seem to satisfy the belligerent autograph seeker who continued to scream at Kelce, which included calling the Super Bowl champ a “punk f–k” and telling him “I’ll take you on any time.”
Kelce, 37, managed to calm the situation down by coming out of the car he had gotten into before signing for the onlookers who were there, even shaking the hand of the man who was accosting him with obscenities.
“I’m gonna sign,” Kelce could be heard saying in an attempt to calm things down.
The person seemed to change his tune when the fomer Eagles star began signing.
The signature seeker exclaimed that he was “ashamed of that moment” while also demanding that no one post the video of his outburst.
“I feel you and I appreciate you,” Kelce said after the man continued to apologize.
It was a very different scene that played out than the one that occurred at Penn State earlier this month when Kelce slammed the phone of a fan who had called Kelce’s brother Travis an anti-gay slur.
Kelce later expressed remorse over the incident in an apology during “Monday Night Countdown” a few days later.