Steve Smith Retires From The Game
Steve Smith has finally hung up his cleats and one of the last generation’s greatest characters will finally no longer suit up every Sunday to school fools and terrify small children. A quick reminder that Steve Smith once broke a teammate’s nose in practice, something people have finally started to forget but remains my favorite Steve Smith fact.
Smith has always been a strange character in football. Probably the toughest little bugger of a WR the league may ever see. For his entire career Smith seemed like the one guy you just didn’t want to start a rivalry with. He still has probably one of the scariest faces in the NFL. Even when he’s smiling, he kind of looks like he is thinking about burning your house down. He doesn’t have so much of a resting bitch face as a resting “I’m going to kill your family and raise your children to become assassins to kill the rest of your relatives” face. It probably helped him be the intimidating little monster he was. Everything about how he played exuded extreme confidence that the man would run you over or make you look silly. I know some of my readers here trend young, but if you were a fan of football around the early 2000’s, you probably remember that 2003 season when Smith seemed like the worlds most unstoppable force. I pretty much rooted for the Panthers in that Super Bowl simply because of how awesome Smith was to watch. I think the only other time I ever saw a single player be that dominant in the post-season was Fitz in 2008.
Sadly, like Fitz, he had a bunch of lesser years in the middle there that will probably severely damage his HoF chances. No one can really be a stud WR with Jimmy Clausen throwing to you and Smith got stuck with Clausen, mediocre Jake Delhomme, and Derek Anderson for a while.
This remains my favorite Steve Smith moment in history. It’s everything we love and slightly pee ourselves in terror about the man. He makes a great catch, breaks free, takes a cheap shot, taunts the asshole who hit him with an incredible head slap “DONT COME AT THE KING” move, then walks into the ensuing fight and takes a guy bigger than him to the ground like he’s tissue paper. Steve Smith was amazing and I’ll miss him. He seems like a pretty decent guy off the field, too, so that’s good. He might actually be a huge dick and when people want to call him on it he just gives ’em the Steve Smith face and everyone shuts up.
Have a good life, little beast. Football is lesser without you.
for real though? john harbaugh is not a daddy
Steve Smith is the best. He was the right kind of wide receiver. He is not “me me” like a lot of these primadonna wide receivers (Terrell Owens, OBJ, & Chad Ocho Cinco). He showed up every week and did his job and heaven help anyone who tried to talk trash to him. He wil be missed.
Gonna miss the guy. Yet another great player who’ll retire without winning a Super Bowl they so badly deserve.
Also, on that video you showed, yeah, Smith was great, but holy shit did you see that block by Stewart?
1. Steve Smith is a Hall of Famer.
2. That catch was amazing. Dude can jump.
3. My favorite memory of Smith will be his “Blood and Guts” game where he called out his former team and told them “Put your goggles on, ’cause there’s going to be blood and guts everywhere.”
That week he caught 7 catches for 139yds and 2TDs. He also made Roman Harper his little bitch, who also just happens to be the guy who hits him late in Daves video.
Only one man in the league can back up smack talk on that level and it was Steve Smith.
Steve Smith is my all time favorite. The blood and guts game is the first time I have ever cheered against the Panthers. Considering his age that stat line was impressive alone, and that’s without pointing out he only played 3 quarters that game.
I still vividly remember watching him destroy Fred Smoot.
Favorite Steve Smith moment has to be him telling Aqib Talib, “Ice up, son” after a MNF win over the Patriots. If there’s one indication of being truly fearless, it’s the willingness to go at Aqib “I shot myself so what makes you think I won’t shoot you” Talib.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4XeL8cLjrA
As a Steelers fans I have a healthy amount of fearful respect for the man. Kinda like spiders.
I hate Steve Smith, but I respect him
Panthers fans will never forget X Clown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_tk9MFKAVs
If Steve Smith doesn’t make the Hall something’s gotta change.
It must stink to be the pedestrian WR Steve Smith who won Super Bowl XLII with the Giants. How many times does he have to respond, “No, not that Steve Smith.”
Steve Smith is my all time favorite panther. I genuinely hope he retires with the team. Remember, this is one of the all time great receivers…with QBs like Jake Delhomme and Jimmy Clausen throwing to him….in a run first, second, and third system for 10 years. I can only imagine what he’d have done if he had a real QB throwing to him.
He had a monster attitude on the field, and is actually a genuinely good guy off it with the stuff that he does in the Charlotte area and his charity.
The NFL will miss him. Well, maybe not the DBs who are collectively breathing a sigh of relief.
Steve Smith is the reason Courtland innegan’s name changed.
Nah, that was Andre Johnson that beat the F out of him
Oh, snap. You’re right. My other favorite tough-as-nails WR.
Okay I think I just got it. Finnegan got the F knocked out of him? I’m slow. Lol.
Steve always reminded me of cris carter, love to watch them play, until it’s your team they’re torching with 12 for 189 and 2 TDs
Can we talk about how amazing his 2005 season was? He led the league in catches, yards, and TDs, despite having Jake Delhomme at QB, being on an offense that ran more than it passed, and more importantly, playing in the same league as Randy Moss, Tory Holt, Marvin Harrison, and Terrell Owens, all still at their peaks.