Steve Smith Is ON WFNZ Having A Confessional, Won't Let the Story End

[Mr. Scot]

By the way, to address the title of the thread:  Don't you need to admit to some wrongdoing for it to be a "confessional"?

 

What would be a more appropriate word?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(I'm probably gonna regret asking that)

[Jeremy Igo]

Verbal diarrhea

[CRA]

To me the biggest issue in all of this BS is whether or not Gettleman is really this shady and underhanded.

What is shady or underhanded about any of it? He was blunt and to the point

[frash.exe]

Dave Gettleman didn't screw Steve Smith. Steve Smith screwed Steve Smith.

[Tub of Goo]

What is shady or underhanded about any of it? He was blunt and to the point

That Steve heard he was cut from an outside source before DGs mouth.

[Mr. Scot]

Verbal diarrhea

 

Yeah. That's in a similar vein to what I was expecting

 

[CatMan72]

Stay classy Steve...

[Mr. Scot]

Stay classy Steve...

 

Nearly 350 posts in before someone said that?

 

I was expecting it much sooner

 

[Kevin Greene]

Rock on Smitty

[Mr. Scot]

Joe Person @josephperson  ·  17m 17 minutes ago

Rivera on Steve Smith's comments on @wfnz: I don't need to defend myself. I've moved on.

 

[Johnny Rockets]

Why did Steve feel the needs to call in?  This has to be the first time I've ever heard of a professional athlete calling a radio station on his own terms to "set the record straight."  I feel somewhere down the line GMan told Smitty's agent that he appeared to have lost a step, lost of some of his competitiveness or whatever and told his agent Smitty would be evaluated.  The agent twists this with typical agent speak, Smitty gets worked up (as he always does) and now we're here. 

 

I also felt like Garcia was tooling around to encourage some of those responses.

 

Well... he called in to WBT news on his own terms back in February (while on vacation) to comment on Gettleman's quotes:

 

http://www.wbt.com/keith-larson/2014/02/25/steve-smith-responds-to-gettlemans-presser

 

 

 

Then he voluntarily called in to WFNZ to talk about his release a couple of months later:

 

http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2014/03/13/steve-smith-talks-being-cut-from-carolina-panthers-nfl-future/

 

 

There were numerous other occasions where local radio hosts would be talking about a football subject (or even a life in general subject) and Steve would call in from out of the blue. 

 

Steve calling into local radio to set the record straight has been a normal occurrence for a long time. 

[Johnny Rockets]

I wish there was a poll at the top of this thread that had the following options:

 

1) Pro Smitty

 

2) Pro Gettleman / Rivera

 

3) Nuetral

[CatMan72]

Well... he called in to WBT news on his own terms back in February (while on vacation) to comment on Gettleman's quotes:

 

http://www.wbt.com/keith-larson/2014/02/25/steve-smith-responds-to-gettlemans-presser

 

 

 

Then he voluntarily called in to WFNZ to talk about his release a couple of months later:

 

http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2014/03/13/steve-smith-talks-being-cut-from-carolina-panthers-nfl-future/

 

 

There were numerous other occasions where local radio hosts would be talking about a football subject (or even a life in general subject) and Steve would call in from out of the blue. 

 

Steve calling into local radio to set the record straight has been a normal occurrence for a long time. 

 

If by "set the record straight" you mean sounding like a jilted, heartbroken 13 year old girl then I agree. 

[Tub of Goo]

^^ and there were reports released over the weekend saying he asked to be released, implying he had previously lied. I would defend myself too if someone issued something about me publicly that I believed to be untrue.