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News flash: Antonio Brown is still Antonio Brown
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News flash: Antonio Brown is still Antonio Brown
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Re: News flash: Antonio Brown is still Antonio Brown
So the past 24 hours has elevated this situation to high Shakespearean drama. (Because again, Antonio Brown.)
First, Brown, finally, releases a statement (which, as McAfee says, is extremely well-worded, full Strunk & White in effect - which is not, shall we say, the timbre of his usual texts...but then again, you are talking a text versus an actual statement that he presumably released through his publicist), saying they were forcing him to play on a bad ankle, so he got pissed and left.
Immediately - like, within an hour or two - the Buccaneers formally-and-for-real release him. (And that's an interesting happening, too - you tell the guy to get off the field and that he's "no longer a Buc", and then order him to see a doctor and blah blah blah until he tells his side, at which point you then cut him for real? What gives with this timing?)
And as soon as that happens, Coach Bruce Arians gets in front of a camera and tells a pretty much completely different story about how he was upset nobody was throwing him the ball. (Arians' statement begins at 6:27 below.)
Now as it is pointed out, players are commonly mic'd up, and NFL Films very likely has the audio. They can release it and clear up this entire thing. They don't seem to be doing so right now. And they work for the NFL and therefore the Buccaneers - not Antonio Brown. So it isn't a good look for them right now. (Admittedly, they might be taking their time with it and getting all the lawyers lined up first; it would make sense if they did.)
First, Brown, finally, releases a statement (which, as McAfee says, is extremely well-worded, full Strunk & White in effect - which is not, shall we say, the timbre of his usual texts...but then again, you are talking a text versus an actual statement that he presumably released through his publicist), saying they were forcing him to play on a bad ankle, so he got pissed and left.
Immediately - like, within an hour or two - the Buccaneers formally-and-for-real release him. (And that's an interesting happening, too - you tell the guy to get off the field and that he's "no longer a Buc", and then order him to see a doctor and blah blah blah until he tells his side, at which point you then cut him for real? What gives with this timing?)
And as soon as that happens, Coach Bruce Arians gets in front of a camera and tells a pretty much completely different story about how he was upset nobody was throwing him the ball. (Arians' statement begins at 6:27 below.)
Now as it is pointed out, players are commonly mic'd up, and NFL Films very likely has the audio. They can release it and clear up this entire thing. They don't seem to be doing so right now. And they work for the NFL and therefore the Buccaneers - not Antonio Brown. So it isn't a good look for them right now. (Admittedly, they might be taking their time with it and getting all the lawyers lined up first; it would make sense if they did.)
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Re: News flash: Antonio Brown is still Antonio Brown
A lot of rather Kanye-esque things have happened with Antonio Brown since this past drama, and now it seems there is a warrant out for his arrest on DV charges. I will post confirmation on this at a later time, but of course in the meantime, you will note the look of shock - shock, I tell you - on my face at this latest development.
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Re: News flash: Antonio Brown is still Antonio Brown
Well, he is represented by Ye's sports agency Donda Sports so that tracks.scooter wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 2:00 am A lot of rather Kanye-esque things have happened with Antonio Brown since this past drama, and now it seems there is a warrant out for his arrest on DV charges. I will post confirmation on this at a later time, but of course in the meantime, you will note the look of shock - shock, I tell you - on my face at this latest development.
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Re: News flash: Antonio Brown is still Antonio Brown
I'd say it's highly unlikely that Antonio Brown plays another down of football ever again, even in the XFL.WolfofWords wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 7:46 pmWell, he is represented by Ye's sports agency Donda Sports so that tracks.scooter wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 2:00 am A lot of rather Kanye-esque things have happened with Antonio Brown since this past drama, and now it seems there is a warrant out for his arrest on DV charges. I will post confirmation on this at a later time, but of course in the meantime, you will note the look of shock - shock, I tell you - on my face at this latest development.
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Re: News flash: Antonio Brown is still Antonio Brown
Antonio Brown's arena league team - as in, the one he actually owns - has been kicked out of the National Arena League for failure to pay their league dues. This is like a year after they won the league championship...
The press conference was, um, a thing.
The press conference was, um, a thing.
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Re: News flash: Antonio Brown is still Antonio Brown
This is the press conference.
I'm not sure he wasn't completely naked for that presser.
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Annnnnnnd he's under arrest again, according to TMZ Sports. For unpaid child support.
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Re: News flash: Antonio Brown is still Antonio Brown
Skip Bayless must be so disappointed.
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