Antonio Brown in trouble again; did pulverizing head shot send him into a downhill spiral?
Belated New Year’s resolution: No more making light of Antonio Brown’s antics.
The former Steelers, Raiders and Patriots receiver — ranked the No. 7 NFL player in an NFL players poll last August — is at it again.
Per ESPN, Brown and his trainer allegedly battered the driver of a moving van outside his Hollywood, Florida, residence. Police officials told ESPN that a criminal investigation is ongoing. Authorities say Brown is a suspect, but is not in custody.
Police say Glen Holt, Brown’s trainer, has been charged with one count of felony burglary and battery.
Brown hired the van to bring some of his belongings to his home in a gated community in Hollywood.
It’s been a downhill deal for Brown since he forced his release from the Oakland Raiders last summer. He left the Patriots after one game amid a cloud of sexual assault allegations. He said he was going back to college. He lobbied NFL teams to sign him. He remains under investigation with the NFL, and last week his agent Drew Rosenhaus terminated his professional relationship with Brown. And we’re just scratching the surface here.
A couple months ago, in a post on BroBible.com, Mark Harris penned an interesting piece suggesting that some, if not all, of Brown’s erratic behavior, stems from a vicious head-to-head hit from then-Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict during a 2016 playoff game. Warning: You might want to watch this through splayed fingers:
From Harris: “If you were to go back to the year 2016 and look at the story of Antonio Brown in the NFL it would be a pretty standard one. He’d be a Steelers wide receiver with four 1,000 yards+ receiving seasons under his belt, a Super Bowl loss and that guy who kicked punter Spencer Lanning in the face during a punt return in 2014, but other than that it’s pretty standard stuff.
“However, as we all know, things have been far from standard for Brown for quite some time now. The question now is when did things change?”
Someone went to the trouble of compiling an compendium of Brown’s misbehavior. It’s a huge list, but it doesn’t include the past five months.
I recently stumbled upon a list of AB's incidents ever since he joined the league, which is actually what inspired this thread. I would like to point out he wasn't always a trouble maker, all his problems started in 2017, his only incident before that was kicking that punter lmao pic.twitter.com/4VG2xihOrQ
— Offseason Vountee (@vountee) August 11, 2019
Harris picks up the narrative from there: “If you look at 2019 alone, the number of issues involving Brown are astounding. After being traded from Pittsburgh to Oakland, issues immediately began, the first involving his awful blistered feet. This was then followed by him refusing to play because he wanted to wear his old helmet. Prior to all of that, you had him calling out former teammate JuJu Smith-Schuster on Twitter.
“While those are pretty intense situations, they’re on the lighter side of issues when it comes to AB. In October of 2018, he tossed furniture off of a 14th-floor hotel balcony. After signing with the New England Patriots he was accused of three separate incidents of sexual assault and rape.”
Not funny. Definitely sad.