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Details about the viral brawl involving Cam Newton and a group of coaches at a youth football tournament in Atlanta are beginning to surface.
According to the coaches who were involved in the brawl, it was trash-talking from the former NFL superstar that led to the physical altercation. The men also claim that it was Newton who initiated contact.
TJ and Steph Brown, who are coaches for Top Shelf Performance, where Newton used to help out, the former Heisman Trophy winner was trash-talking before and during a game between the TSP team and Newton’s C1N Red team.
“It just should never have gotten to that,” TJ told Fox News Digital.
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“Cam jumps out of his car and yells, ‘Hey, all that sorry s*** ain’t gonna work today. What we betting today? What we betting?'” TJ continued. “I’m like, ‘I ain’t betting you, bro. I already beat you three, four times. You got to beat me first.’ He like, ‘What we betting? I got plenty of money. I ain’t ever running out of money.’ That’s when I told him, ‘That’s your problem. All you care about is money. You think money is everything. You can’t buy me.’ And I walk off.”
During the game, TJ claims Cam continued to run his mouth.
“‘Hey, I know that play. That’s my stuff. I taught y’all everything y’all know. I’m y’all daddy. I made y’all. I’m the reason for everything y’all got going on,'” he said.
After the game, the TSP coaches confronted Cam, claiming he grabbed Steph, which led to the punches being thrown.
“He’s just got to understand we’re people,” he said. “Nobody’s just going to let you go around disrespecting and talking crazy to them. I know how to brush it off, but not everybody’s like that.”
Despite the physical altercation, the coaches say that they hope to clear the air with Newton and move on.
