Steve Smith is well known for his fiery attitude.
He's been in fights with his own teammates at practice; he's been in fights on the field, and now he reportedly tried to get in a fight off the field with a now-retired former teammate. Marc Bertrand of the Felger and Massarotti radio show shared the story, and CBS Boston transcribed it.
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Smith apparently tried to fight Jermaine Wiggins, one of his former teammates at Carolina, after Saturday's Ravens-Patriots game, a 35-31 Baltimore loss. Wiggins, who turns 40 this weekend, played seven years in the NFL and is now a radio personality in Boston. At some point in the past, Wiggins said Smith was a bad locker room guy and was a "bully." Word got back to Smith, and he wasn't pleased. Here's how the story goes, according to Bertrand:
Smith approaches Wiggy and wants to talk about, 'You called me a bully. I heard you called me a bully.'
To which, Wiggy said: 'I did call you a bully. you know you are one.'
And I talked to Wiggy about it. He said at that point I thought he was, you know, just kind of busting chops and wasn't like serious. Then all of a sudden, it got like really violent and he was in my face looking for a fight! He tried to fight Jermaine Wiggins after the game.
Bertrand adds that security got involved, as did Patriots receiver Brandon LaFell (also a former teammate of Smith's). He then continued to talk about the crazy scene.
Wiggy starts saying, 'You're a bleep, and you won't do bleep!'
Patriots radio color commentator Scott Zolak was also an eyewitness to the scene and added what he saw.
So [Smith] sees Wiggy and he's like 'Yo, what's up?!' And Wiggy's like, 'Hey, what's up?' And Smith is like, 'No dude, what the bleep's up?' And Wiggy's like, 'Oh no, now you're swearing in front of my kids.' And he's like, 'You gotta step off.' And then it starts getting nasty.
And Steve is like, 'You called me a bully! So what's up with that? You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna bleep you right now."
And Wiggy's like, 'Man, you gott stop in front of my kids.'
At some point the drama cooled off and the two were separated.
