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Steve Smith isn’t upset that he’s not a Panther

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Smitty is in a good place, go get 'em. Best wishes.

 

 

Last month, when the Panthers cut receiverSteve Smith, Steve Smith wasn’t happy.

“[P]ut your goggles on cause there’s going to be blood and guts everywhere,” Smith said at the time regarding the prospect of facing the Panthers.

Now that he’s had some time to process the turn of events, Smith has become ambivalent.  Or so he says.

“What’s in the past is in the past,” Smith said during a Friday appearance in Charlotte, via Joseph Person of the Charlotte Observer.  “At the end of the day, you go to the kitchen, you get a washcloth, you pick up the spilled milk and you move on.  That’s what I’m doing.  I’m moving on.”

He’s moving on, without hard feelings.  Or so he says.

“I have nothing bad to say about Mr. Richardson or the organization,” Smith said.  “And I won’t.  And I refuse to because they deserve nothing but my respect.  At the end of the day, they’ve done great things for me, given me an opportunity to bless my family.”

 

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CONCORD It’s tough to say what was the more jarring sight Friday at zMax Dragway: watching former Panthers receiver Steve Smith climb behind the wheel of a top fuel dragster to rev the engine, or seeing him sporting the colors of his new team, the Baltimore Ravens.

“The confidence that I have in myself, I look good in any color,” Smith said. “I look good in purple. So I’ll be fine.”

Smith, who was released March 13 after 13 seasons with the Panthers, will continue to live in Charlotte, where his three children were born and where they go to school.

And he’ll continue to make public appearances like Friday’s at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals, where Smith was a guest of driver Antron Brown and Charlotte Motor Speedway president Marcus Smith.

But Smith made it clear the Panthers are no longer his concern.

So Smith offered little opinion on Carolina’s complete make-over of its receiving corps, which began with his release and included the departures of three other wideouts in free agency.

“Not that I’m upset, not that I’m mad. It’s just the facts of the business,” Smith said. “Brandon LaFell is a New England Patriot. Ted Ginn is an Arizona Cardinal. And Domenik Hixon a Chicago Bear. Those are my brothers, those are my friends.

“Who your current employer is does not eliminate or change the friendship and the camaraderie that you’ve built over the years. ... Just because we collect checks from different organizations doesn’t mean that all of a sudden we cut each other off.”

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/04/11/4835280/steve-smith-has-moved-on-from.html#.U0oEuvldV8H

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My girls out partying and we just broke up 3 days ago. Oohhhhhh nooooooo. Dumb thread, dumb fugging story. Worst of all, your thread title makes you sound like a whiney 12 year old girl.

 

You sound like the Bi tch! I hate how people on this message board comment on threads they dont like. Move on to the next thread dude! You dont have to comment! Oh I guess you are watching your thread count. Idiot.

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