News of an incident involving Tennessee Titans receiver Calvin Ridley circulated Sunday night, while fans were watching Sunday Night Football, Sports Illustrated reported, citing WKRN News 2's Erin McCullough.
The Titans said they were aware of the incident and offered no further comment at that time. Later reporting from A to Z Sports' Easton Freeze and Austin Stanley, as summarized in the same story, said Ridley had been trying to retrieve his car from valet service, that his ticket was lost, and that the valet would not turn over the keys without being able to identify the car.
The report said the exchange became a verbal altercation, that Ridley then tried to take the keys from the valet's hands, and that the valet was left with a cut and attempted to press charges. It was unclear at the time whether charges had been filed with the Metro Nashville Police Department.
Ridley was in his third season with the Titans and had been mentioned in trade talk ahead of the Tuesday deadline, the article said. This account treats the valet narrative as reporting from named beat writers, not as a courtroom finding.
WKRN's initial item, as relayed here, described an incident tied to the airport and did not itself lay out the valet details later added by A to Z Sports.
The team did not confirm those later details in the Sunday statement.
Sources: Sports Illustrated