Dave Portnoy has been left fuming after Jason Kelce was pressured into signing an autograph for a crazed fan who subjected him to a tirade of abuse.
In a video obtained by TMZ Sports, a furious autograph seeker can be seen unleashing an expletive rant towards Kelce, 37, as he leaves the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ show in Los Angeles on Thursday.
‘You ain’t nobody special!’ the man shouts at him as he gets in his car. ‘You’re some s*** bag, f***ing guy that thinks he’s on some pedestal!’
The insults then become so relentless that Kelce steps out of his vehicle to de-escalate the situation and sign an autograph for the fan, who had even appeared to challenge him to a fight at one stage of the video.
After watching the clip online, Portnoy expressed his frustration that the former NFL star gave in to the autograph seeker, claiming he is ‘getting bullied by a**holes’.
‘I HATE that Jason Kelce got back out of his car and signed this lunatics autograph,’ the Barstool Sports founder wrote on X.
Dave Portnoy has fumed over Jason Kelce signing an autograph for a fan who abused him
Kelce gave in to the fan after they unleashed a furious rant as he left the Jimmy Kimmel show
‘He’s getting bullied by assholes. That guy should be in prison not getting an autograph to flip.’
Kelce signing the autograph appeased the angry man, who eventually apologized and admitted he was ‘ashamed of that moment’ – while also demanding that no one post the video of his outburst.
‘You’re good, bro,’ the Philadelphia Eagles legend told him.
The bizarre incident comes just weeks after Kelce was embroiled in another dispute with a fan during an appearance at Penn State for ESPN’s College GameDay.
Earlier this month he was seen smashing a fan’s phone for making a homophobic remark about brother Travis and his girlfriend Taylor Swift.
‘Hey Kelce! How does it feel your brother is a f***** for dating Taylor Swift?’ they shouted at him.
Kelce continued walking after the slur before turning around, grabbing their phone and furiously slamming it down into the ground. He then picked it back up and said ‘who is the f***** now?’ before walking away.
It is unclear whether the phone belonged to the male who made the disparaging comment about Travis.
Barstool founder Portnoy was left seething at the video of Kelce ‘getting bullied by a**holes’
The incident comes weeks after Kelce had another dispute with a fan at a Penn State game
Kelce later apologized for the outburst on ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown, he apologized to viewers for ‘falling short’ of his usual levels of ‘common decency and respect.’
‘I think everybody has seen on social media what happened this week,’ Kelce said. ‘Listen, I’m not happy with anything that took place. I’m not proud of it.
‘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. I don’t think it leads to discourse and it’s the right way to go about things. In that moment I fell down to a level that I shouldn’t have.
‘The bottom line is, I try to live my life by the golden rule, that’s what I’ve always been taught; I try to treat people with common decency and respect, and I’m gonna keep doing that moving forward.
‘Even though I fell short this week, I’m gonna do that moving forward and continue to do that.’
