Steve Smith, who recently broke his arm, calls the injury to be a freak accident. He regretted on Thursday playing in an adult flag football league in Charlotte at the Siskey YMCA where he broke his left arm. He also added futher that he won’t be doing it anytime soon again.

He is expected to miss his practice for six to eight weeks, but he may be ready for the regular season that is opening on September 12 against the New York Giants.

To the Mac Attack radio program Smith said, “Obviously, I put my team and myself in a bad situation by playing… But that wasn’t my intentiona and wasn’t what I thought the outcome was going to be.”

Later on Smith also added, “I am a regular guy outside of football. I mow my grass, too. I can get my finger chopped off fixing my lawnmower. I could roll my ankle playing tag or slip-n-slide with my kids. In hindsight, yeah, I won’t do it again. But I was just having fun, playing with some guys.”

Smith’s agent Derrick Fox said that a plate and screws were inserted in his arm during surgery on Sunday night.

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