Ex-Dolphins LB Channing Crowder, stunned by Drake eyeing his wife: Let's step outside
Hot tip: If you’re going to flirt in public with some guy’s wife, first make sure that woman’s husband isn’t an NFL linebacker.
Drake — you know, the rapper whose catalog includes “Wants and Needs,” spotted Aja Crowder — wife of former Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder — during his recent concert in Sunrise.
Even though he was suspended in a cage and nowhere near Aja, he was so taken aback by Aja’s looks that he paused and said, “Oh, (expletive). The green right there. Fine as hell.”
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Aja had a green top on and was in a suite with Channing as Drake pointed straight at her.
The incident might have come and gone if not for the fact that the Crowders posted a reel of their evening on Instagram.
Including Channing’s eyes-bugged-out, what-did-I-just-hear? reaction.
“Man, hell with him,” Channing says in the video. “I ain’t worried about Drake. I’ll see Drake in the parking lot.”
Crowder then smiles, which is where a little background is required.
Crowder, current co-host on The Pivot podcast and a show on WQAM-560AM, was a second-generation Dolphin taken in the third round out of Florida in 2005. He spent six seasons with the Dolphins as a starting linebacker, making 470 tackles.
His playing size was 6-feet-2, 250 pounds.
Drake, at least according to Google, is 6-feet and who-knows-how-many pounds.
Crowder, both then and now, never was one to bite his tongue. Often it was with a sense of humor so potent that he has done stand-up comedy. So sometimes, he might be joking and other times, he might not be. It helps to know Channing to be certain.
As Drake might say, “Laugh Now Cry Later.”
Marc Hochman, Crowder’s co-host on WQAM’s “Hochman & Crowder Show,” tried to get to the bottom of this feud, if it can be called that.
“Listen, I ain’t making no songs,” Crowder said. “He gotta see me, see me.
“He was flying around in some little cage, looking weird with some weird clothes on. And he pointed to the box I was in, pointed straight at my wife and said, ‘Man, lady in the green, she fine as hell.’ And I don’t play that, Hoch. I don’t play like that.
“That’s my lady for 15 years. Hey, Drake, you better get out of that cage and come on over here. We gotta talk about this.”
Hoch then debated with Crowder over who’d win in a fight.
Crowder was incredulous.
“He would just whoop me, Hoch?” Crowder said.
“No, but I think he’s got guys that would,” Hoch said.
Crowder demanded to know who’d win, mano a mano.
Hoch: “You got the seasoning.”
Crowder: “I would season his ass to death.”
Dolphins reporter Hal Habib can be reached at hhabib@pbpost.com. Follow him on social media @gunnerhal. Click here to subscribe.
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