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There was lots of attention on NFL MVP quarterback Cam Newton over the weekend after footage emerged of him in a heated brawl during a 7-on7 tournament in Atlanta.
Coaches TJ and Steph Brown were both involved in the brawl and they have given their account of what exactly went down, and what caused the former NFL star to get so angry. It started with him grabbing Steph before TJ then threw the first punch.
"It just should never have gotten to that," TJ told Fox News Digital on Monday.
"First off, on the organizer's part, we weren't even supposed to be playing Cam. They were on the whole other side of the bracket," TJ said.
"As we're warming up, you see in most of the videos, Cam has this chant where he's like, 'Ayo!' So he yells it over on his sideline, then he tells them, 'Man, y'all go over there and do it to them too,'" TJ explained.
"So all the players run up on us, and they're like, 'Ayo!' Mind you, he knows a lot of our players don't mess with his players, and some of them are cool. Obviously, as they're running up on our players, the We Ball [Sports] folks, they're recording it. All I said to the camera was, 'Don't delete the film when I beat him this time,' because the last time I beat him - the last three times I beat them - all of a sudden there's no film. 'Oh, we didn't record anything. We took pictures.'"
The situation escalates
There was then an altercation in a car park which TJ explained.
"Sunday comes, I'm walking through the parking lot, walking to the field," he recounted. "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?' 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."
"It's probably three minutes into the game, he's sitting up top with all his kids around him under a tent yelling down on us," TJ said.
"'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's just yelling all this stuff."
That then led to the physical altercation.