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cpwm17

(3,829 posts)
Tue Sep 23, 2014, 12:39 PM Sep 2014

Titan's kicker, Rob Bironas, chased and threatened drivers before he died in a car crash.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/titans/2014/09/23/rob-bironas-chased-threatened-students/16097563/

Two Belmont students say former Titans kicker Rob Bironas threatened to kill them and sideswipe the truck they were in before confronting a man and woman in another car and trying to run their vehicle off the road Saturday night. Minutes later, Bironas lost control of his SUV and died in a one-car crash.

Connor Fraley, a 20-year-old student, said he was a passenger in a pickup truck that Bironas tried to hit on Franklin Road during a high-speed chase, after Bironas made threatening comments at an intersection minutes earlier.

The allegations surfaced less than a day after another woman told police in a 911 call Saturday night that the popular ex-Titans kicker tried to run her vehicle off the road just before crashing himself.

"His window was down, and we pulled up and I said, "Hey man, just a heads up, something's burning from your exhaust. Your exhaust smells horrible, just wanted to let you know,'' Fraley recalled telling Bironas. "He looked over at me and said "I'm going to kill everybody in your (expletive) vehicle. It was so random, so bizarre I was like, "What?" And he said the exact same thing again."
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