Jason Kelce said Monday that he “chose to greet hate with hate” during an incident Saturday in which he responded to a caller who called his brother Travis a “shithole” for dating Taylor Swift by smashing his phone and repeating the insult.

Before the Monday Night Countdown, Kelce was offered a moment to speak his mind about the entire altercation.

“I’m not happy with anything that happened,” Kelce said. “I’m not proud of it. In a heated moment, I chose to greet hate with hate. I just don’t think that’s a productive thing. I really don’t. I don’t think it leads to discourse and is the right way to approach things. At that moment I fell to a level that I shouldn’t have. The bottom line is that I want to live my life, I try to live my life according to the golden rule.”

He continued: “I try to treat people with common decency and respect. I’ll continue doing that in the future, although I fell short this week. “I’m going to do that in the future.”

On Saturday, while walking to the Penn St./Ohio St. game, a student ran up to the former Philadelphia Eagles center and yelled, “Kelce, how does it feel that your brother is ready to date Taylor Swift?” Kelce turned, grabbed the phone, and slammed it to the ground.

When the student continued to follow him to retrieve the phone, a different angle showed Kelce yelling, “Who’s the ft now?” back to him.

“Kelce, how does it feel that your brother is screwed for dating Taylor Swift?”

Jason Kelce proceeded to slam this kid’s phone on the ground.

It seemed like a Penn State student was confronting Kelce for no reason. Wild scene in State College pic.twitter.com/3PEdZXWhSg

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Kelce’s comments came on Monday Night Countdown ahead of the Kansas City Chiefs’ matchup against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. His brother Travis, who was the subject of the college student’s gay slurs on Saturday, plays tight end for the Chiefs.

“We have a game to focus on. Obviously I don’t think this is the platform to go into more details, so let’s prepare for this game against the Chiefs,” he concluded.