"So now we know what that flare-up was about late in the third quarter in which Miami Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder appeared ready to fight the entire Ravens offense.

" Le'Ron McClain spit in my face," Crowder said of the Ravens' Pro Bowl fullback out of Alabama. ""That's some real ho' s--, so if you talk to him tell him he's a ho'. If he ever comes to Miami, he's got to see me."

McClain denied the charge after the game, but Dolphins defensive end Kendall Langford corroborated his teammate's version, saying if they had been on the street he would have let Crowder go after McClain and finish the job.

What about the officials? Didn't they see what happened?

"They said they didn't see it," Crowder said. "Then they said something about they let Karlos Dansby get away with a facemask before. Who the f-- cares? I just got spit in my face. I don't give a damn about Karlos pulling somebody's facemask.

"Like they didn't see Chad Henne get hit twice when he slid. No, no, they say, "Aaah." Stevie Wonder and Anne Frank. Who's the blind girl? Helen Keller, then. I don't know who Anne Frank is. I'm mad right now. I'm not as swift as I usually am.""