{"id":9676,"date":"2014-03-20T20:55:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T00:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9676"},"modified":"2014-03-20T20:55:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T00:55:31","slug":"steve-smith-to-wear-smith-jr-on-jersey-meets-with-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/03\/20\/steve-smith-to-wear-smith-jr-on-jersey-meets-with-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Smith to wear &#8220;Smith Jr&#8221; on jersey, meets with fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Smith is now a member of the Baltimore Ravens, and the team already have one receiver named Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens have Torrey Smith. While they could have gone the &#8220;T. Smith&#8221; and &#8220;S. Smith&#8221; route Steve instead will wear Sr on the back on his jersey. (We can only assume it&#8217;s not to recognize that he is old.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>1st one with SR&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23stevesmithSR&amp;src=hash\">#stevesmithSR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ravennation&amp;src=hash\">#ravennation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/t5ajyqHl8n\">pic.twitter.com\/t5ajyqHl8n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steve Smith (@89SteveSmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/89SteveSmith\/statuses\/446628987763433472\">March 20, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Smith has a son, Steveonne. Some fans quickly pointed out to Smith that Titus Young was the first to place &#8220;SR&#8221; on his jersey to which Smith replied that this was his first jersey with &#8220;SR&#8221; on it.<\/p>\n<p>He also visited with young fan Gavin Simone on Thursday, presenting him a jersey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Had to meet him and hook him up with some new Ravens gear,&#8221; Smith said on <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/10638144\/steve-smith-baltimore-ravens-surprises-sad-7-year-old-fan-gavin-simone-gma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Good Morning America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may remember 7-year-old Gavin from this video which went viral at the time of Smith&#8217;s release from the Carolina Panthers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cNjtepBuOlM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/stevesmith.jpg\" alt=\"stevesmith\" width=\"581\" height=\"1032\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9677\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/stevesmith.jpg 581w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/stevesmith-576x1024.jpg 576w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/stevesmith-50x88.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gavin is also going to attend Smith&#8217;s camp in Charlotte this spring. <\/p>\n<p>Smith finished last season with 64 catches for 745 yards and four touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Smith is now a member of the Baltimore Ravens, and the team already have one receiver named Smith. The Ravens have Torrey Smith. While they could have gone the &#8220;T. Smith&#8221; and &#8220;S. Smith&#8221; route Steve instead will wear Sr on the back on his jersey. (We can only assume it&#8217;s not to recognize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[166,126,426,216,588],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-baltimore-ravens","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-steve-smith"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9678,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9676\/revisions\/9678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9676"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}