Steve Smith to Punch Imaginary Teammates For First Two Weeks of Season

↵The Carolina Panthers have made a bold statement today: it ↵is not OK to break your teammate’s nose! Steve Smith will ↵be made a martyr for jerks everywhere, as the team has suspended the angry wideout ↵two games for decking Panther cornerback Ken Lucas during a training camp ↵argument on Friday.
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↵It seems a bit late to try to teach Smith a lesson -- ↵remember: he also pummelled a teammate during a film ↵session in 2002 -- but obviously this nonsense couldn’t go ↵unpunished. And the Panthers have gone a step beyond ↵suspending Smith. Coach John Fox has even told Smith he can’t do this stuff anymore!↵↵⇥“We’re going to help him. He’s still ours. Yet, he is going ↵⇥to have conditions. He knows what those are and we’re going ↵⇥to move forward.”↵↵You wouldn’t think “don’t knock out your teammates during ↵an argument” needs to be spelled out. But you’d be wrong.↵