Former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Bud Dupree could potentially be released by the Tennessee Titans in a salary cap saving move. 93.7 The Fan morning show producer Adam Crowley would like to see Dupree return to the Steelers, which allowed host Colin Dunlap to share an interesting story about the former first round pick.
During The Fan Morning Show Thursday, Dunlap reminisced about a situation where Dupree sent an angry message to the host, but was actually looking for another 93.7 The Fan host.
“I’m sitting at home at night, it’s like November. I get a DM from Bud Dupree. A long one,” Dunlap said. “‘Hey fool’ –it starts out, or something like that — ‘You better know who you’re talking about. You better watch your mouth ’cause I don’t play around’. All this stuff. All this kind of stuff. ‘You keep talkin’ the way you’re talkin’ , you’re gonna find out the hard way’, real pointed stuff.
“I’m looking at this thing, and I’m reading through it, and it ended with something like ‘You better wise up and keep your mouth shut or else you’re gonna find out the hard way I’m about it and I’m a real man’. So I sent him a DM back and was like ‘Hey bud. We have a couple of mutual friends in Lexington that I know and you know. They can vouch that I’m an ok guy. Two, I honestly think this, and this is no offense, I haven’t talked about you in two months. I think you have the wrong guy. I think whoever you’re mad at isn’t me.’
“The next message came. The squiggly lines started. He was online. He just wrote back: ‘Dis Andrew (Fillipponi)?’ I wrote back ‘No, my name is Colin.’ He wrote back ‘We good’. It started with this big long ‘I’m gonna kick your ass’. I’ll never forget it because I screen-capped it and sent it to Poni.”
Co-host Dorin Dickerson then asked if Dupree then contacted Fillipponi. Dunlap wasn’t sure, but believed he wouldn’t have been able to handle a fight with the 6’4, 269-pound linebacker.
“I didn’t want him on my bad side, so I sent him right to Andrew,” Dunlap joked.
