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Originally Posted by DoubleJs07
This is worth the read:
Porter made national headlines in September 2003 when he took a bullet in the backside while standing with friends outside a Colorado sports bar. One of the six shooting victims was left dead and a bullet passed through Porter's left buttock and into his right thigh. For a time, the incident changed the chemistry of his trash-talking.
"They took my mean streak out of me," Porter said, sounding sad. "Everybody's congratulating me, 'Oh, man, I'm sorry about what happened.' I can't sit up there and get mad at this guy who just got done telling me, 'Man, I was praying for you,' and all this stuff.
"How am I going to curse out [someone] who just prayed for me? That year, they was killing me, man. I'm like, 'Damn it, stop telling me that.'"
Eventually, he snapped out of it. Porter said he has Rams tight end Brandon Manumaleuna to thank for that.
"We was playing in the game, and he said, 'You're lucky it wasn't me, because I would have shot you in the face.'