This past Sunday, singer Nick Lachey was removed from the Bengals vs. Chargers football game at Qualcomm Stadium for excessive trash talking, but is that all there is to the story?

Multiple sources are claiming that the onetime 98 Degrees singer got violent at the game, choking a Chargers fan, pushing him down, and then calling his wife a derogatory name – namely, the “b” word.

The accuser claims Lachey and his friends were harassing him about his Igor Olshansky jersey for the second half of the game (Olshanky played for the Chargers from ’04 – ’08). Finally, the fan’s wife got out a pretty good line: “Well, he lasted longer then your boy band.” Zing!

But apparently, it’s not “all’s fair in love and trash talking” to Nick, because Lachey called the wife a “f**king b*tch” and became violent with the Chargers fan.

Lachey was then removed, but the Chargers fans stayed at the game. This seems to go against Lachey’s later tweet, which claimed his accuser started the ruckus: “I simply don’t appreciate someone turning around and putting their finger in my face. call me crazy, but that deserved a reaction.”

In fact, Lachey seemed stoked to be a part of the scuffle. He also tweeted “Just got kicked out of the chargers stadium and couldn’t be prouder! Go Cincy Bengals! #whodey.”

Supposedly, this is footage of Nick being kicked out:

Then, after he hd been kicked out and his hometown team snagged the victory, he tweeted: “Bengals win again. i’d talk trash to everyone in SD, but what’s the point? you already had me kicked out of the stadium and you still lost.”

Uh…go team?

As much as his Twitter followers seem to love the bravado (btw, how does he only have 3000 followers? Is he even trying?), things became a bit more serious as the allegations of violence began to surface.

When a fan questioned the rumors that Lachey used offensive language and got physical with the Chargers fan, Jessica Simpson’s ex tweeted: “100% untrue. i said nothing insulting to the guys wife. complete BS.” And “…I would never blame a guy for sticking up for his wife, but in this case, it simply didn’t happen. that is the truth.”

And the denials didn’t contain themselves to social media, either. Lachey’s rep said: “This is a gross misrepresentation of what happened. It was nothing but a spirited debate between fans of opposing teams. At no point did Nick say anything derogatory to the man’s wife and anything to suggest the contrary is simply untrue.” The accuser is planning to file a police report against Lachey.

It is times like this, and this… and this… that we wish fans could remember…it’s only a game!