Carolina Panthers WR Smith isn't first to take chances

[Rod Butsecks]

(By Darin Gantt, [email protected]) p//p

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[Argus Plexus]

Whatever. Leave the guy alone. He's got a wife and kids, makes money, he's a man. He has a right to do what he chooses. If it affects his career, he will take responsibility for it, cause he's a man. It's nobody's business but his.

[Koobah]

It's all BS anyway. I remember a couple of my Bronco fan friends getting mad for Ryan Clady hurting his Patella in Basketball earlier in the offseason.

I mean who is anybody to tell an athlete that they cant play anything in the offseason

[cookinbrak]

The Panthers own him. They can tell him what to do and what not to do. We think of players only being players 6 months out of the year, but his employers see it as all year long. If this had happened in April, it probably wouldn't have been that big a deal.

[Wither]

The Panthers own him. They can tell him what to do and what not to do. We think of players only being players 6 months out of the year, but his employers see it as all year long. If this had happened in April, it probably wouldn't have been that big a deal.

They don't own him; this is not slavery (RACISTTTT). He is an employee and as a person he can do whatever the hell he wants. The company can't necessarily tell him what to do with his free time, either. They can set guidelines, they can even put stipulations if he gets hurt while not at work, they can remove him. However, they cannot force him to do anything. This is America, not Soviet Russia.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

I guess that depends on what the language of the contract he signed states.

Was he out there without the knowledge of the team, or did he have permission to attend and participate this event?

Smitty's broken arm is probably the least of my concern for this team. We need him, but he's gonna be back and ready to rock.

If nothing else, I see this as more reps for our underdeveloped wide receivers.

[SorthNarolina]

Smith took a small gamble and now he is paying for it. I don't know if any NFL wide receiver is ever going to go with the conservative "better safe than sorry" rule especially concerning football.

Anybody that is going to rag on him for not honoring his contract has every reason to. He shouldn't have done it. I'm not even going to try to defend him. He's walking a very fine line in his responses too. Basically saying he's sorry but he still doesn't really care about the rules in his contract.

This is just another one of those issues you just kind of brush off.

The same competitiveness that makes him break his arm playing flag football is the same competitiveness that makes him break his arm and still waltz into the end zone talking smack to giants fans.

The same passion that makes him punch people in the face(twice) is the same passion that can cause him to break his hip and come back to win the triple crown a year later.

Take the good with the bad. So far he's well into the black.

[DudeNamedJeremy]

Take the good with the bad. So far he's well into the black.

[DaCityKats]

im just going to assume somebody will throw the race thing into every thread.

[Wither]

im just going to assume somebody will throw the race thing into every thread.

I hope you realize it is all for fun. I don't think there have been any serious posts about racism since that thread... and I don't think there need to be after about 500 serious posts about it.

[DaCityKats]

I hope you realize it is all for fun. I don't think there have been any serious posts about racism since that thread... and I don't think there need to be after about 500 serious posts about it.

yes i do, but after the first 50 times its not funny anymore.

[cookinbrak]

[Wither]

yes i do, but after the first 50 times its not funny anymore.

Naw, of course it is.

[DaCityKats]

this joke has been ran into the ground.