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Jason Kelce has seen his star rise rapidly with ESPN and the success of his New Heights podcast with brother Travis Kelce. But Mike Golic Jr. believes in the recent viral incident that the former NFL star learned a valuable lesson.
After Kelce smashed the phone of a heckler last weekend, he apologized on ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown. He stated he needed to handle the situation better.
During Golic and GoJo, Mike Golic Jr. agreed with Kelce’s assessment but said the situation is part of what happens to media members.
“Jason … is probably gonna have to find ways to get himself out of these situations in the future,” Golic Jr. said. “He’s been an awesome, accessible star while him and Travis have watched their profile grow. But people are just not responsible enough for all that access to a guy that nice.”
While he believed Jason Kelce needed to handle the situation better, Mike Golic Jr. did agree that the situation was an unfortunate one and largely out of the ESPN NFL analyst’s hands.
“This sort of underscores the larger societal mentality where people just continue to think they can say anything they want inside the arena with no consequences,” he said. “Like this is Twitter and they think it’s sweet out here and quickly find out in a way that could have gone markedly worse for the person involved on the receiving end of this from Jason Kelce that that’s not gonna fly here.”
