Philadelphia- Actor and Rocky icon Sylvester Stallone thinks Richard Gere is still frosted at him for starting that whole crazy gerbil-hospital emergency room urban legend about Gere.

AintItCoolNews.com reporter/editor Harry Knowles broke the story that Gere harbors ill feelings because he allegedly believes it was Sylvester who started that ridiculous legend about Gere and the gerbil.

Allegedly the bad blood between the two actors became so intense that Gere got kicked off the film “The Lords of Flatbush.” “To this day [he] seriously dislikes me,” says Sly, who adds, for the record, that he did not start the rodent rumor. Gere’s rep had no comment.

The old feud dates back to 1974’s “The Lords of Flatbush.” Gere, who was supposed to get the role of “Chico” played by Perry King, “would strut around in his oversized motorcycle jacket like he was the baddest knight at the round table,” says Stallone tells AintItCoolNews.com.

Stallne continued: “I was eating a hot dog and he (Gere) climbs in with a half a chicken.” Stallone claims that Gere deliberately got chicken grease all over his thigh. “I elbowed him in the side of the head,” says Stallone, who returns to the screen ring this month in “Rocky Balboa.” Reported AintItCoolNews.com.