Funniest camp moment ever

[Matt Foley]

This was 02 or 03. Smitty got into it with a backup defensive back. Think his name was Cordell Taylor or something like that. The offense stands on one side of the field, the defense on the other. From the defensive side comes the unmistakable sound of Jarrod Cooper's voice....

"Hit him again, Cordell! Shut up, Steve, ya bitch!"

Players laughed. Media laughed. The Panthers PR guy comes running over to Stan Olsen from the Observer, telling him not to run that. It was awesome.

[Matt Foley]

Either that or 06...Stanley McClover was doing his barking thing. Ken Lucas made a play on a goal line stand and he started to bark. Stanley came over and Lucas set up for a chest bump....McClover pancaked him. Even the offense was laughing.

[thefuzz]

McClover is a fugging beast.

Predator FTW.

[Phil Dees]

This was 02 or 03. Smitty got into it with a backup defensive back. Think his name was Cordell Taylor or something like that. The offense stands on one side of the field, the defense on the other. From the defensive side comes the unmistakable sound of Jarrod Cooper's voice....

"Hit him again, Cordell! Shut up, Steve, ya bitch!"

Players laughed. Media laughed. The Panthers PR guy comes running over to Stan Olsen from the Observer, telling him not to run that. It was awesome.

In 2002 he battered teammate WR Guilian Gary and put him out of football.

[Panthro]

Anthony Bright???

[Phil Dees]

Anthony Bright???

Guilian Gary

[Panthro]

Ummmm he may have fought Gary but he ended Bright's football career.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/panthers/2002-11-22-smith_x.htm

[Phil Dees]

http://www.carolinahuddle.com/forum/28777-steve-smith-a-sure-lock-for-the-hof-5.html

"This is the third-such incident involving Smith. In 2002, he was involved in a fight with rookie wide receiver Guilian Gary, who left camp after the incident."

http://www.heraldonline.com/2008/08/01/722291/smith-punches-lucas-in-eye-melee.html

"In 2002, Gary was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL).[14] He attended training camp, but left after being involved in a fight with fellow receiver Steve Smith, who has a history of physical altercations with teammates."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilian_Gary

[Matt Foley]

Phil is right.

[Proudiddy]

This was 02 or 03. Smitty got into it with a backup defensive back. Think his name was Cordell Taylor or something like that. The offense stands on one side of the field, the defense on the other. From the defensive side comes the unmistakable sound of Jarrod Cooper's voice....

"Hit him again, Cordell! Shut up, Steve, ya bitch!"

Players laughed. Media laughed. The Panthers PR guy comes running over to Stan Olsen from the Observer, telling him not to run that. It was awesome.

Another thing... I find ironic how there's some guys that I'm sure have talked sh*t to Smitty that he hasn't punched out. Coop seemed like a pretty big, bad ass guy.

I'm not saying Smitty is a punk, but I think he's targeted guys he thought were weaker. Bright seemed like an easy going guy, trying to make his dream happen and seemed very humble and modest from the interviews the media did with him when we had brought him back to camp that year. He also, from what I remember was a pretty skinny guy.

Lucas, although I can't remember where I read it/heard it, some said was a bit 'sweet' if you know what I mean... Although he was a pretty sturdy looking guy, if that was the case, to a lot of people he would be seen as soft. His open field tackling the season before that didn't help his case either. On top of that, Smitty punched him from behind - pretty dirty move.

I'm just saying... You don't see Smitty in trouble for socking Buckner, Kemo, or Peppers in the face.

In 2002 he battered teammate WR Guilian Gary and put him out of football.

http://www.carolinahuddle.com/forum/28777-steve-smith-a-sure-lock-for-the-hof-5.html

"This is the third-such incident involving Smith. In 2002, he was involved in a fight with rookie wide receiver Guilian Gary, who left camp after the incident."

http://www.heraldonline.com/2008/08/01/722291/smith-punches-lucas-in-eye-melee.html

"In 2002, Gary was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL).[14] He attended training camp, but left after being involved in a fight with fellow receiver Steve Smith, who has a history of physical altercations with teammates."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilian_Gary

Wow, I had knew about ending Bright's career and obviously the Lucas thing, but I never even heard of, or at least remember the Gary incident. The other two incidents were publicized instantly, but I don't recall anything in print when the incident with Gary happened. I wonder if he actually got into a fist fight with him?

[Phil Dees]

Probably wasn't publicized much because it was the 1st. 2nd and 3rd offences cause greater concern.

[Wither]

"In 2002, Gary was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL).[14] He attended training camp, but left after being involved in a fight with fellow receiver Steve Smith, who has a history of physical altercations with teammates."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilian_Gary

That as badly written as Steve did not have a bad history before 2002, did he?

[Phil Dees]

That as badly written as Steve did not have a bad history before 2002, did he?

Smith never showed a great deal of interest in his classes in high school and didn't take the SAT. By the time he landed at Santa Monica College, he was just as raw mentally as he was physically.

"Not long after he got here, I had to go to him and say, 'You've had three or four fights here in the last three or four weeks,' " said Taylor, his junior-college coach. "I had to ask him 'What's wrong?' He said, 'I don't know.' I asked him if he was mad at anybody, and he said he didn't know. I asked him why he was fighting with other players and he said he didn't know that, either.

"During his two seasons at Utah, Smith was known to get into fights in practice, and that behavior was followed by several publicized incidents in the NFL."

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=cr-smith011906

[Wither]

"During his two seasons at Utah, Smith was known to get into fights in practice, and that behavior was followed by several publicized incidents in the NFL."

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=cr-smith011906

But what kind of fights were they? You get into an argument or a scuffle with a guy versus breaking someones face... different story.

Either way, it doesn't really matter to me. He has did a lot of stupid poo and is lucky to still be playing.