Jeff Reed May Have Left Hall of Fame Game After Confrontation in Stands

UPDATE:

Jeff Reed says he wasn't involved in any physical confrontation with a fan.

In a Facebook post (h/t BustedCoverage.com's Joe Kinsey) published Monday, Reed claims he was attending the Hall of Fame game with a group of seven friends from out-of-town when he was verbally accosted by a Steelers fan the moment he found his seats inside the stadium.

Reed says he then went and located police officers "so [he] would not do something [he'd] regret." He says he declined having the man removed and instead left the game himself.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Paul Zeise tweeted screenshots of Reed's Facebook post:

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Reed's account doesn't mention squirming out of a cop's arms or other things witnesses claim having seen him do, but it's his version of an incident that remains muddled at best.

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Former Pittsburgh Steelers kicker Jeff Reed appears to have been kicked out of the preseason Hall of Fame game on Sunday night in Canton, Ohio, after a run-in in the stands.

Two fans at the Vikings-Steelers tilt, which ended in a 14-3 Minnesota victory, tweeted out pictures of Reed (in the turquoise shirt) seemingly being escorted from the game.

Twitter user Timothy David wrote that the former kicker got the boot for fighting:

Twitter user TomLade documented Reed's departure, writing that the apparent removal started after a dustup with a Pittsburgh fan:

By TomLade's claim, sheriffs brought Reed outside Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium and left the longtime kicker with a warning. He then seems to have begun taking pictures with fans and asking if anyone wanted to ditch this banana stand for a bar.

Good times with Jeff Reed—a man of many haircuts and few damns. 

He appears to have come this close to entering the special brotherhood of men arrested while wearing a Super Bowl ring.

What an honor.

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