I heard he got punched by a LB for refusing to pay back $600 he borrowed from the guy. Got a broken jaw for his troubles, and will miss 6 to 10 weeks.
The LB was wrong for punching him, and got canned by the Jets. But man......a multi millionaire QB refusing to pay back a $600 loan???? Smith is an IDIOT. When I first heard about it, I felt sorry for him. But after I heard WHY he got smacked, I no longer feel much pity for him.
Not much of a team leader, if you ask me.

Originally Posted by: Cheesey 

I heard he got punched by a LB for refusing to pay back $600 he borrowed from the guy. Got a broken jaw for his troubles, and will miss 6 to 10 weeks.
The LB was wrong for punching him, and got canned by the Jets. But man......a multi millionaire QB refusing to pay back a $600 loan???? Smith is an IDIOT. When I first heard about it, I felt sorry for him. But after I heard WHY he got smacked, I no longer feel much pity for him.
Not much of a team leader, if you ask me.

Originally Posted by: Cheesey 

Yup. You can't punch someone because he "dissed" you.
Can you see something like that happening on the Packers?

Originally Posted by: Cheesey 

From what I've read, it was $600 for a plane ticket to Texas where the guy that punched him was holding a football camp. Smith was to attend but then missed because a friend died. The other guy wanted reimbursement for the ticket Smith never used. Seems a reasonable request.

Assuming the above is correct, two multimillionaires just fucked each other over $600: one with a broken jaw and the other out of a job and facing potential criminal charges.

Edit: Bills picked the LB up so no longer out of a job.

Originally Posted by: mi_keys 

I heard he got punched by a LB for refusing to pay back $600 he borrowed from the guy...

Smith is an IDIOT. When I first heard about it, I felt sorry for him. But after I heard WHY he got smacked, I no longer feel much pity for him.

Originally Posted by: Cheesey 

Almost sounds like purposeful disrespect.

Originally Posted by: nerdmann 

Smith “was up in (Enemkpali’s) face and pointed/touched his face,” according to a source.

“Geno deserved it,” another source said.

“That’ll get a man hit every time, especially one that hasn’t earned respect,” a source said.

Manish Mehta's article  wrote:

I think the money started the argument but I don't think that's what caused the punch.



Yeah, purposeful disrespect is what caused the punch... Smith attempted to publicly show and embarrass Enemkpali is the reason Smith got punched.

Smith put his finger in Enemkpali's face (possible even poking him in the face) and said, he wasn't going to pay him back and "you're not going to do anything about it" 

I know some people are going to disagree with me on this, but where I come from, if your in verbal dispute with someone and you put your hands on them then you better be ready for fist to fly. Even if you're not disrespecting them, arguing with them and touching them fist might fly.

Add in the purposeful disrespectfulness and the fact that he owes him money... and to be truthful I really don't have any problem with the punch. Smith was a huge d!ck on purpose and seemed to be attempting to disrespect and embarrass him in front of all the teammates. Someone needed to give Smith a wake up call that he's not untouchable.... and while yes it would of been much better if one of the veterans or coaches took control and taught Smith how to be smart and a good teammate... but none of them did. So Smith had to learn the lesson in a different way (the hard way). Hopefully Smith isn't such a jerk to teammates going forward.

Originally Posted by: beast 

Fighting words are written or spoken words, generally expressed to incite hatred or violence from their target. Specific definitions, freedoms, and limitations of fighting words vary by jurisdiction.

The fighting words doctrine, in United States constitutional law, is a limitation to freedom of speech as protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

In 1942, the U.S. Supreme Court established the doctrine by a 9–0 decision in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire. It held that "insulting or 'fighting words,' those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace" are among the "well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech the prevention and punishment of [which] … have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem."