Browns' Green: No hard feelings after fight with Porter

BEREA, Ohio -- They spit in each other's faces, exchanged a few wild punches and several nasty, not-fit-for-print words during pregame warmups.

Then, Cleveland running back William Green and Pittsburgh linebacker Joey Porter got thrown out together -- before the opening kickoff.

But like two school kids sent to detention for fighting during recess, they are friends again.

Wait a second. Aren't the Browns and Steelers supposed to dislike each other?

"We talked after the game and we both realized that it kind of got out of control," Green said Monday. "It's not something that we want to do as players and we apologized to each other and we left it at that. There's no hard feelings."

What's next, exchanging Christmas cards?

'I wish I could take it back,' William Green says of Sunday's melee.(Getty Images)

Green regretted his fight with Porter, which began with the two players jawing at each other as the teams went through their pregame drills.

Green said the trash talking quickly escalated once both took off their helmets.

"We kind of got into it, we were saying different words and the next thing I know I feel glock of spit shoot in my face and it just kind of went from there," Green said. "He spit in my face and that's when I went back at him and pushed him and I spit back at him."

Green said he doesn't know what prompted Porter to spit in his face.

The third-year back missed eight games last season when he was suspended by the NFL for failing the league's substance-abuse policy. He's sorry for his latest episode.

"The last thing I want to do is get ejected from a game," he said. "I'm sorry about that as far as my teammates go, but things happen sometimes and things all went wrong, I wish I could take it back."