Jason Kelce seemed to thoroughly enjoy himself as he returned to the Eagles for their Monday Night Football game against the Falcons, but not all fans loved his rambunctious display.
Kelce, who was at the game as part of ESPN’s MNF pregame coverage, was seen dancing on stage and tossing beers to fans – with some online accusing him of being drunk himself.
And one X user got the former Eagle’s attention on Wednesday when he called Kelce a ‘clown’ and a ‘slob’ for his harmless pregame antics.
‘White men in the modern era are only allowed to be a few very limited and tightly controlled things,’ the account wrote.
‘But this particular Regime approved white male phenotype — the clown, minstrel, drunk, immature, ‘mind your biz’ consooomer, joke, adult baby, slob — is easily one of the worst.’
Jason Kelce was seen dancing in a tracksuit before the game – leaving some fans concerned whether he’d be able to perform his TV duties
He later denied that he was drunk during MNF and hit back at a fan who called him a ‘clown’
Kelce took notice and defended himself in somewhat self-deprecating fashion the next day.
‘I’ll admit I am all of these adjectives at times, but if you think these are the only words that I represent I highly recommend you watch my documentary on Amazon,’ he said.
‘Very successful, and while playful, still has a lot of values about life, family, fatherhood, and marriage that you would appreciate I think. Also my retirement speech, while admittedly crying much more than I wanted to, is a different tone than my buffoonery as well.’
While many fans – and even Jason’s brother Travis – accused him of being worse for wear on Monday night, Jason shot that suggestion down during the latest episode of ‘New Heights.’
‘I could tell, by the way, [when] you were talking in the third quarter in the booth that you had been on an up-and-down roller coaster of being in and out of being drunk since about noon,’ Travis said.
Kelce screamed into a microphone onstage as he hyped up the Philadelphia Eagles fans
Jason immediately cut his younger brother off, saying he had ‘zero beers’ before laughing off throwing cans at fans during the pregame festivities.
The former center acknowledged how hard it was not to drink as he was tossing beers to fans.
‘Do you know how hard that was?’ he asked, adding, ‘I’m a professional, Travis. I don’t mess around.’
Even without alcohol in his system, Kelce caught the eye with his dance moves – which included a running man at one point.
‘Everyone thinks I’m the dancer. Dude, you are the f****** most electric dancer I’ve ever met in my life,’ Travis told his older brother.
‘You can put a smile on anybody’s face by dancing. It is so good. And when you get in that mode, when you go full-send, oh my gosh, thank you for that. … I’ll have that forever. I’ll have that in my back pocket for a f****** cloudy day.’
While Kelce got the Eagles fans going before the game – even bringing ex- Eagles Nick Foles and Fletcher Cox on stage – it wasn’t the night he would’ve hoped for in the end as Philly suffered a shocking collapse to lose 22-21.
