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Mecca 09-13-2018 12:39 PM

So I read this article on Antonio Brown...
 
https://theundefeated.com/features/s...-full-picture/

Jesus Christ no wonder that team is so dramafied.

I won't put up the whole thing because it's rather long.

AssEaterChief 09-13-2018 12:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mecca (Post 13728704)
https://theundefeated.com/features/s...-full-picture/

Jesus Christ no wonder that team is so dramafied.

I won't put up the whole thing because it's rather long.

and he threatened the guy who wrote this...

ROFL

Brown is an egomaniac

ptlyon 09-13-2018 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Mecca (Post 13728704)
I won't put up the whole thing because it's rather long.

And I won't read it because I don't give a ****. Thanks for sharing tho.

arrwheader 09-13-2018 12:42 PM

I just want to beat the piss out of them and watch them fall apart after.

Mecca 09-13-2018 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by AssEaterChief (Post 13728708)
and he threatened the guy who wrote this...

ROFL

Brown is an egomaniac

He doesn't exactly come off as the best guy considering it paints a picture of a guy who threatens or drops anyone that doesn't do exactly as he wants.

Hog's Gone Fishin 09-13-2018 12:44 PM

Would be a good bet who has more yards.. TH or AB

scho63 09-13-2018 12:44 PM

Maybe it's finally our destiny to replace one of the old guards, Rapesemburger, with the new guard Mahomes.

Simply Red 09-13-2018 12:45 PM

MANY receivers would look like that if they were cheesy like him and took off their shirts. Having muscle in the NFL is nothing new, Brown.

Rausch 09-13-2018 12:46 PM

The drama is there because the HC won't squash it.

I was (am) a fan but this might get him fired...

Mecca 09-13-2018 12:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rausch (Post 13728728)
The drama is there because the HC won't squash it.

I was (am) a fan but this might get him fired...

He's probably a part of it...what HC trips a dude during a play?

That locker room is probably insane.

Rausch 09-13-2018 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Mecca (Post 13728737)
He's probably a part of it...what HC trips a dude during a play?

That locker room is probably insane.

Most drama in the league.

I admire the Rooneys but players hate the admin, Coaching takes no stance, and FA's/Players vent with the expectation the HC will make it work.

That won't work for long...

Mecca 09-13-2018 12:56 PM

I seriously wonder how ugly all that of that will be when the wheels fall off...can you imagine trying to develop a young QB in that atmosphere?

Rausch 09-13-2018 12:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mecca (Post 13728761)
I seriously wonder how ugly all that of that will be when the wheels fall off...can you imagine trying to develop a young QB in that atmosphere?

Pitt's run ends after this season. The HC will stay but it will degrade after that...

Mecca 09-13-2018 01:01 PM

I'm also of the belief if you put Brown with some QB that isn't very good he's not going to be a happy camper.

Rausch 09-13-2018 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Mecca (Post 13728777)
I'm also of the belief if you put Brown with some QB that isn't very good he's not going to be a happy camper.

Ruthless-rapist isn't very good these days...

Sassy Squatch 09-13-2018 01:05 PM

Roethlisberger from a radio interview about Brown.

“He’s one of the best in the business, and the plays that he makes and has made over his career are so special,” Roethlisberger said of Brown. “I think sometimes that overshadows the extra stuff: the hands up, the arms up, the frustrations, the pouting, the things like that.”

Even his own QB acknowledges he's a ****ing headcase.

Rausch 09-13-2018 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Superturtle (Post 13728790)
Roethlisberger from a radio interview about Brown.

“He’s one of the best in the business, and the plays that he makes and has made over his career are so special,” Roethlisberger said of Brown. “I think sometimes that overshadows the extra stuff: the hands up, the arms up, the frustrations, the pouting, the things like that.”

Even his own QB acknowledges he's a ****ing headcase.

He's quite the guy to talk about being flawed...

:spock:

Sassy Squatch 09-13-2018 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Rausch (Post 13728803)
He's quite the guy to talk about being flawed...

:spock:

LMAO Yeah, dude certainly has skeletons of his own.

Mecca 09-13-2018 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rausch (Post 13728786)
Ruthless-rapist isn't very good these days...

Well he does get targeted more than any receiver in the league, it likely does help.

Best22 09-13-2018 01:13 PM

Wait, people thought AB had character?

He has "football character" (works hard, plays hard, no suspensions, etc) but he's not exactly the most likeable guy

KCUnited 09-13-2018 01:16 PM

They should trade him for a 4th this year and a 2nd next year.

Best22 09-13-2018 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by KCUnited (Post 13728814)
They should trade him for a 4th this year and a 2nd next year.

AB is a far better player than Peters, to go along with his unquestioned toughness and dedication to his team

Rausch 09-13-2018 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mecca (Post 13728805)
Well he does get targeted more than any receiver in the league, it likely does help.

He's a QB...

FAX 09-13-2018 01:46 PM

Cliff Notes for the time impaired?

Summary, maybe?

Bullet points? Highlights?

FAX THE BARELY LITERATE

Marcellus 09-13-2018 02:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAX (Post 13728865)
Cliff Notes for the time impaired?

Summary, maybe?

Bullet points? Highlights?

FAX THE BARELY LITERATE

Antonio Brown is a dick who lives a fake life on social media praising family and God constantly but he treats his family and kids like shit. Especially the mother of his first 2 kids.

Rausch 09-13-2018 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAX (Post 13728865)
Cliff Notes for the time impaired?

Summary, maybe?

Bullet points? Highlights?

FAX THE BARELY LITERATE

Big Ben is drunk most of the time (offseason) and wanted to retire last year but his agent wasn't having that shit.

(FTR I'm not judging, just stating reported facts.)

The team is with the HC but not ownership. They are ready to rebel vs. management.

Tomlin is just the seal on a mason jar...

Mecca 09-13-2018 02:41 PM

He also apparently told a Steelers beat reporter he was a racist because he reported that Brown was limping in camp due to a leg injury.

And also threatened to beat the guy who wrote this story's ass for doing it.

RedRaider56 09-13-2018 03:12 PM

You should see the treehouse AB had built on an episode of Treehouse Masters
Holy crap...

keg in kc 09-13-2018 03:15 PM

What's really gonna suck is when they beat us yet again this weekend, and brown has about 300 yards receiving.

FAX 09-13-2018 03:24 PM

OK, then ...

Perhaps we should take the field while shouting, "AB, your lawyer is on the phone!!".

FAX

sedated 09-13-2018 03:47 PM

I know nothing about AB, but seems a bit odd he turned out this way considering his path to NFL stardom was a slow one. He went to a small school, was a 6th round pick, and was a backup with little production for his first 3 or 4 years.

ThaVirus 09-13-2018 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Best22 (Post 13728820)
AB is a far better player than Peters

I mean, the gap isn't that wide.. if there is one to begin with..

They're both HoF talents.

staylor26 09-13-2018 04:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThaVirus (Post 13729089)
I mean, the gap isn't that wide.. if there is one to begin with..

They're both HoF talents.

That’s just silly.

Brown is going down as arguably a top 3 WR ever.

Mecca 09-13-2018 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by staylor26 (Post 13729112)
That’s just silly.

Brown is going down as arguably a top 3 WR ever.

Numbers wise or talent wise? I mean that is a debatable statement.

Also for the other comment about being surprised he's like that, lets remember he is from liberty city miami and he at one time had a scholarship to FSU that got pulled due to grades.

staylor26 09-13-2018 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Mecca (Post 13729138)
Numbers wise or talent wise? I mean that is a debatable statement.

Also for the other comment about being surprised he's like that, lets remember he is from liberty city miami and he at one time had a scholarship to FSU that got pulled due to grades.

Hence “arguably”

I’m just talking talent. After Rice/Moss, he’s definitely in the conversation.

Jewish Rabbi 09-13-2018 05:46 PM

Antonio Brown is a man of few words and many images, expressing himself through visuals of helicopter arrivals, outlandish touchdown celebrations, ferocious workouts, kilogram-weight jewelry, gobs of Gucci and a sunbeam smile strong enough to melt your phone.

And Instagram. He’s always on Instagram. Much like Brown is the best wide receiver in the NFL, @ab is All-Pro on the ’Gram. This summer, as the Pittsburgh Steelers star prepared for a Super Bowl-or-bust season and crisscrossed the country filming commercials, @ab blitzed his 2.6 million followers with 3.6 posts per day, more than any active NFL, NBA or MLB player. He billed these updates as an “unfiltered” and “real” view into his life, placing him at the forefront of the growing number of athletes and celebrities trying to control their personal narratives through social media.

Instagram is Brown’s primary communication tool. When interviewed, Brown rarely speaks at length. Even @ab’s Instagram captions are usually just a few words or emojis. Nobody gets on the ‘Gram to read. They go to look. To watch. To be entertained, transported, titillated or inspired.

This summer, we saw @ab in the gym, chiseling his spectacular physique. In his Miami mansion, playing with his three youngest kids. Running routes on the field and the beach. Flying on private jets. Selling Nikes, Pizza Hut and Madden. Surrounded by adoring fans at training camp. Hashtagging #CallGod, with telephone fingers held up to his face. His 19.5 million likes and comments since May trailed only LeBron James and Odell Beckham Jr. On his “Stories” (Instagram images that disappear in 24 hours) we saw @ab’s meals, haircuts, colognes, socks and adorable scenes of his kids @auto, @alikingbrown and baby @apollob.

Really doe: How real is what @ab serves up? Here’s what we didn’t see:

The quadriceps injury that kept Brown out of training camp drills and preseason games. Calling a respected white journalist a racist after the writer tweeted that Brown was limping. The deleted Instagram post in which Brown trashed the mother of his three youngest kids.

Pittsburgh is deep into win-now mode. The Steelers, who open their season Sept. 9 against the Browns, haven’t been to the Super Bowl since 2011, when they lost 31-25 to Green Bay. They have the best offensive trio in the league, but quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is 36 and nobody knows when, or if, running back Le’Veon Bell will suit up again in Pittsburgh. Brown is the most reliable of the three on the field, with more than 100 receptions in each of the past five seasons, the longest such streak. At age 30, Brown’s numbers match up with the greatest receiver of all time, Jerry Rice, at the same stage of Rice’s career.

Yet the Steelers are in danger of being eclipsed by their AFC rival, the Patriots, as the greatest franchise in NFL history. As New England marched to a fourth and fifth championship during the past three seasons, Pittsburgh gained a reputation for being undisciplined. Brown helped fuel that perception with behavior such as throwing a water cooler, not staying in the team dorms during training camp and recording an infamous Facebook Live locker room video. (More on that later.)

According to Brown’s Instagram, he’s now fully charged to power Pittsburgh to a seventh Lombardi trophy.

Unless those ripples in his Matrix get in the way.



It’s a sweaty day in late May at Pittsburgh’s practice facility on the banks of the Monongahela River, the second day of voluntary organized team workouts, or OTAs. As Brown came off the field I introduced myself and asked for an interview. He acknowledged me in the distant manner of many star athletes, like a racehorse acknowledging a fly, and breezed past without answering. The next day, Brown was not on the field. He was on his Instagram Stories, sprinting up sand dunes and blasting through squats.

Brown would miss the rest of the workouts, but his teammates and coaches were confident he’d be ready for the season. Entering his ninth pro campaign, earning $17 million per year, a close second among receivers to Odell Beckham Jr.’s new deal, Brown is a certified superstar. His peers voted him the second-best player on the 2018 Top 100 list. He led the NFL last season with 109.5 yards per game, 71 first-down catches and 1,533 receiving yards — in only 14 games. In Pittsburgh’s crushing playoff loss to Jacksonville, matched up against All-Pro cornerback Jalen Ramsey, Brown returned from a badly torn calf muscle to catch seven passes for 132 yards and two touchdowns.


These huge stats come in a small package: Brown is only 5 feet, 10 inches and 181 pounds. At the 2010 NFL combine, he clocked a sluggish 4.56 seconds in the 40-yard dash and a ho-hum vertical leap of 33˝ inches.

So how did he haul in more passes than anyone else over the past five seasons? Instagram has answers.

See him catching bullets from the Jugs machine. Since 2015, Brown has dropped only seven of 512 passes thrown his way. Watch him eat chef-prepared lean meats, veggies and whole grains. His body fat is a pantherlike 3 percent. Check him in the sand, working on his “Tony Toe Tap” footwork. Brown has an entire Nutcracker repertoire of sideline ballets, plus the best separation moves in the game.


This is just a fraction of the work Brown puts in.

“I would take that kid through some s—. It broke other guys down. He’ll fight through it,” said trainer Idi “Bo” Smith, who like Brown hails from the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, a hard-knock ’hood with a bottomless well of athletic talent.

Smith played receiver in the Arena Football League and has trained dozens of football stars. He started working with Brown as a youngster, and he trained and lived with Brown for entire NFL seasons until they parted ways a year ago. Smith says he molded Brown into an improved version of Smith’s best friend and client Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson, another Liberty City product.

“His work ethic is impeccable,” Smith said. “He gon’ go through it. Whatever you got for him, he gon’ go through it.”


Antonio Brown shows off his six-pack during a Steelers practice at Latrobe Memorial Stadium. “His work ethic is impeccable,” says a former trainer.

JORGE SANTIAGO FOR THE UNDEFEATED
In June, Brown arrived at the mandatory Steelers minicamp unhappy about media questions over his absence from OTAs. He also claimed that something he said to reporters at the beginning of OTAs about Bell’s contract holdout — “You can’t make anything better without showing up. … He wants to be here not just for this year, but years to come, come out here and show up.” — was not actually telling Bell to show up.

Standing in front of his locker, surrounded by reporters, Brown said he felt under constant pressure.

“You guys write about me every day. My mom and my kids see it. So we have to deal with these type of things. I started to think to myself, am I really free?” Brown said.

Instagram, by contrast, is specifically constructed to be a happy place, “super positive and optimistic,” without the combat and lynch mobs plaguing other social media platforms. African-Americans are 13 percent of the country’s population but are overrepresented on Instagram and use it at higher rates than whites or Hispanics — a historically silenced people leading a new-millennium conversation. This is where Brown feels free, where he can take a knee or a stand or a shot at his coaches. Where tens of thousands of fans 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 his every post, and haters get 🤚🏽🤚🏽🤚🏽with a tap of the block button.


Compared with Instagram, the world of the NFL can feel confining.

“I can’t really express myself in this game,” Brown said. “I can’t really tell you how I feel.”

Brown has lived through much pain, and refuses to let it go. It both fuels and explains him.

He grew up playing in the Gwen Cherry Park youth leagues of Liberty City, where one coach, Tyrone Hilton, remembers his playing style as shifty and his demeanor as playful: “He always, always had that smile.” But his father, Arena Football League legend Eddie Brown, left when Antonio was a child. Antonio had a difficult relationship with his stepfather and was kicked out of his home at 16. He finished high school jumping from family to family, feeling angry and abandoned. Bad grades derailed Brown’s recruitment by Florida State. He attended a postgrad prep school for a year, lost his scholarship at Florida International University because of an altercation soon after arriving on campus, then ended up at Central Michigan.

Almost all of today’s superstar athletes have been the man since childhood: groomed, stroked and coddled because of their talent. Brown, by contrast, was just another neglected kid balling out in Liberty City, where fast is average and should-have-beens outnumber successes. “I didn’t know he’d be this good,” Hilton said. Brown had to walk on at Central Michigan, arriving on a Greyhound bus with all his possessions in one duffel bag. He entered the 2010 draft small and slow. The Steelers picked him in the sixth round, 195th overall.

No wonder Brown craves attention.

End-zone twerking was for cheerleaders until Brown popped that thang. He did a Wile E. Coyote into the goalpost on another touchdown celebration. In 2016, before the NFL loosened celebration rules, Brown’s end-zone antics were penalized three times and earned $57,733 in fines. He was chauffeured to the 2016 and 2017 training camps in Rolls-Royces, then touched down this summer in a black helicopter, which merited no fewer than eight Instagram posts and an epic Story. Brown hopped out of the chopper with his girlfriend, their three boys and a $7,400 Louis Vuitton briefcase. Completing the ensemble was his 30th birthday present to himself: a $200,000 Cuban link gold chain with a 100-carat, diamond-encrusted pendant, forged from a full kilogram of gold.


America’s blue-chip brands love Brown’s flash. He has endorsed at least a dozen companies, from Pepsi to Visa. Competed shirtless and sequined on Dancing with the Stars. Appeared in Drake’s video for the smash single “God’s Plan.” Released two videos this summer with style brand Complex: one buying sneakers at a high-end boutique, the other inside the sneaker closet in Brown’s mansion, his Jordans and Balenciagas surrounding a large statue of a golden lion.

In July, Brown embarked on a six-city, 12-day, 4,500-mile Destroy The Doubt bus tour for Nike Football, visiting high school teams from tough neighborhoods that experienced winless seasons. Brown’s IG Stories from the trip were bursting with energy, from rock-star entrances to his hype man trailing him on pass routes, phone in shaky hand.

After the tour, Brown jumped right into promoting the latest Madden video game. He’s the first player to appear on the game’s cover without a helmet, his normally inviting smile turnt up to a scream of triumph. I spoke briefly to Brown by phone the day the cover was released (the only time he agreed to talk to The Undefeated) and asked why he posts so many of his workouts.


Brown signs autographs for fans after a pre-season practice at Latrobe Memorial Stadium east of Pittsburgh.

JORGE SANTIAGO FOR THE UNDEFEATED
“I want to encourage the world, encourage everyone watching to work, inspire everyone watching and be a good example,” he said. “Encourage everyone watching to never get content, you know what I mean. Inspire the world in my actions as far as working.”

The commercials have a similar motivation, he said. “Obviously I’m not only just a great athlete, a football player, I got good charisma. … I just want to keep inspiring not only on the field but off the field as well.”

“AB has a charismatic personality; his energy, attitude and focus is infectious. … His love of fashion combined with his dedication to his family allows us to leverage him as a partner who can connect with many different Nike consumers,” said Nike spokesman Josh Benedek. “AB shows his most authentic self in his social media.”

Following Brown’s personal and business relationships is like defending him in single coverage: You’re likely to pretzel yourself into a knot trying to keep up.

Eleven-year-old Antonio Jr. is the son of Shameika Brailsford, an aspiring rapper with two Nicki Minaj-type songs on Soundcloud. Ten-year-old Antanyiah, a budding track star, is the daughter of a hairstylist. Brown does not follow either of their mothers on Instagram. Autonomy, Ali, and 1-year-old Apollo are the sons of Chelsie Kyriss, Brown’s current girlfriend.

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“I’ve got a lot of kids, so my sperm count is good,” Brown boasted in an interview for ESPN’s Body Issue, where he posed naked with a football over his sperm-production equipment.

In February 2017, Brown signed the massive new contract that included a $19 million signing bonus. Two months later, Kyriss, who was pregnant with Apollo, hopped on the ’Gram to vent about Brown’s new relationship with Instagram model Jena Frumes: “you do not look at someone the night you walk out and tell them you appreciate them and love them and to go turn around and do what he’s done to someone … y’all only know what social media shows y’all don’t know what goes on behind closed doors in a good or bad way,” Kyriss wrote.

Brown soon reconciled with Kyriss. Frumes tweeted her heartbreak — plus Brown’s phone number.

Last summer, Brailsford aired Brown out on her Instagram, accusing him of not paying proper child support, failing to send Antonio Jr. to private school and calling their son “that boy.” She also posted screenshots of text messages where Brown, clearly instigated, called her all sorts of names. “Make your own son b—-,” Brown texted, according to Brailsford’s posts. “I got three more boys here.”

Brown fired back by posting bank statements showing $197,000 in child support payments, plus a Story showing Kyriss holding their newborn son, Apollo, with his tiny middle finger flexed and the caption, “My son sums it up.”

Smith, the trainer, also quit in August 2017, posting an acidic resignation on Instagram. ‘Be a MAN of your WORD and own up to your WRONGS as a MAN should,” Smith wrote.


“I don’t want to say nothing bad, but he got character issues,” Smith told me recently. “You act family, always talking God, you not really on that. Stop acting. Got people think you really living that life when you acting. You putting on for social media, bruh.

“He’s an amazing football player and amazing athlete. As far as character, he fooled me.

“It’s probably some s— he went through as a kid he’s still holding onto,” Smith said.

Smith’s departure was not unique. Brown had a difficult separation with chef Nicholas Hasapoglou in 2016 — “I thought he was my friend, and that’s not the case I guess,” Hasapoglou said in a video. This spring, during a dispute over a marketing fee, Brown sent a series of profane text messages to a former business associate, who showed the messages to a reporter but asked that they not be quoted. This summer, Brown distanced himself from still another marketing company, KCB Sports, and went to STB Athletes. Brown’s representatives at STB and his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, did not return phone calls seeking comment.

The family arguments continued this year. On June 4, Brown accused Kyriss on Instagram of not taking care of the two children she had with another man before connecting with Brown. “She has two older kids … she hasn’t seen or claimed in 4 years running around and chasing me!” Brown posted.

In August, I direct-messaged Brailsford, the mother of Brown’s first child, on Instagram and asked for an interview.

“You sure you wanna talk to me? cause he nothing like he portray on the internet,” she responded. We then spoke briefly by phone. She was reluctant to publicly call out her son’s father but wanted people to “know my truth.” We made plans to meet. She texted the day of the meeting to postpone. That same day, Brown posted a back-to-school photo of Antonio Jr. — the boy’s first photo on Brown’s Instagram in five months. I never heard back from Brailsford.

I emailed Frumes, the Instagram model with 3.4 million followers of her own. Four days later, I received a direct message on Instagram. It was from @ab.

“Bro stop hitting my people up looking for stories stay in your lane.”

The @ab Instagram feed disappeared from my phone. Antonio Brown had blocked me.


There has always been a natural tension between athletes and the media. Black athletes, in particular, have often been treated unfairly by an overwhelmingly white press corps that can be ignorant of black culture and experiences. These conflicts usually play out in private.

But when you live life in social media’s hall of mirrors, everything is a spectacle.

On Aug. 7, I went to Steelers training camp to ask Brown about how he uses social media and the turmoil in his personal life. It was his first day back at camp after missing more than a week with what the team called a minor quadriceps injury. As Brown walked up the steps from the practice field and approached about 20 reporters waiting for the players, he pulled his hoodie up so it concealed his face.

“AB, you got a minute?” I said as he walked past about two yards away. He did not pause, turn his head or acknowledge the question. That afternoon, I told the Steelers’ public relations staff about @ab telling me to “stay in my lane” and asked them to talk to Brown about an interview. He angrily refused.

One week later, Ed Bouchette, who has covered the Steelers for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette since 1985 and been honored by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, watched Brown at practice and tweeted: “Antonio Brown limps off practice after some early individual work.” It got 141 retweets and 246 likes.

Bouchette told me that shortly after his tweet, Brown confronted him in person and said, “You a racist, you a racist.” (Bouchette is white.)

That afternoon, Brown retweeted Bouchette with the comment: “Bro seriously have some respect you making s— up clown.” It got more than 5,700 retweets and 29,000 likes. Brown and Bouchette spoke in late August and “cleared the air,” according to a Steelers spokesman.

The next day, Brown tweeted his displeasure with media coverage that mentioned he had been more than four hours late to a Madden-sponsored appearance at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. The day after that, Brown tweeted, “Integrity of journalist” with a video of Denzel Washington critiquing the media.


It should be no surprise that Brown has injected himself with a social media serum, creating an alternate reality in which he is constantly lied about, doubted, disrespected and rejected. He showed us his plans on Jan. 15, 2017, after the Steelers beat the Chiefs 18-16 in Kansas City to advance to the AFC Championship Game.

That was the day Brown famously broadcast live on Facebook from the victorious locker room, causing a distraction that contributed to Pittsburgh getting stomped by New England the following week. Brown had an endorsement deal with Facebook at the time. Most of the attention afterward focused on the churchgoing Tomlin’s use of profanity and how Brown had violated the sanctity of the locker room. What Brown himself does in the 17-minute-plus broadcast got largely overlooked.

He says little. His fluorescent smile amid the jubilation is eloquent enough.

He repeats, “Call God” and “God is the greatest” 18 times. He gets more and more excited as the live viewers pile up. “We got 41K! 42K … we got 44,000 people tuned in, man.”

A reporter asks for an interview. “I can’t do nothing till I shower,” Brown says. “You’re doing something right now,” she responds, pointing into Brown’s camera.

Yes, he was. The formerly abandoned and overlooked boy was seizing the spotlight, on his terms.

“For those who didn’t believe — look at me now, ha haaa,” he crows. “For the time they locked me out the crib they didn’t let me in, haaa! You played yourself. For the time they didn’t recruit me to go to college — haaaa! You played yourself. For the people who rolled up and said I was too small — aahh, haaa.”

Brown puts his phone in his locker, still broadcasting live, and begins to take off his uniform. A few reporters gather. One asks about an interview.

“I can’t do nothing until I wash deez nuts,” Brown responds.

He looks into the camera. “They want to talk when you win, huh. ’Cause I’m up right now.” He takes off his undershirt.

“Facebook Live, I’m live. 43K.

“God is the greatest, man. God is the greatest.”

Brown pulls down his underwear, exposing his butt to the reporters. They don’t look.

Jewish Rabbi 09-13-2018 05:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jewish Rabbi (Post 13729219)
Antonio Brown is a man of few words and many images, expressing himself through visuals of helicopter arrivals, outlandish touchdown celebrations, ferocious workouts, kilogram-weight jewelry, gobs of Gucci and a sunbeam smile strong enough to melt your phone.

And Instagram. He’s always on Instagram. Much like Brown is the best wide receiver in the NFL, @ab is All-Pro on the ’Gram. This summer, as the Pittsburgh Steelers star prepared for a Super Bowl-or-bust season and crisscrossed the country filming commercials, @ab blitzed his 2.6 million followers with 3.6 posts per day, more than any active NFL, NBA or MLB player. He billed these updates as an “unfiltered” and “real” view into his life, placing him at the forefront of the growing number of athletes and celebrities trying to control their personal narratives through social media.

Instagram is Brown’s primary communication tool. When interviewed, Brown rarely speaks at length. Even @ab’s Instagram captions are usually just a few words or emojis. Nobody gets on the ‘Gram to read. They go to look. To watch. To be entertained, transported, titillated or inspired.

This summer, we saw @ab in the gym, chiseling his spectacular physique. In his Miami mansion, playing with his three youngest kids. Running routes on the field and the beach. Flying on private jets. Selling Nikes, Pizza Hut and Madden. Surrounded by adoring fans at training camp. Hashtagging #CallGod, with telephone fingers held up to his face. His 19.5 million likes and comments since May trailed only LeBron James and Odell Beckham Jr. On his “Stories” (Instagram images that disappear in 24 hours) we saw @ab’s meals, haircuts, colognes, socks and adorable scenes of his kids @auto, @alikingbrown and baby @apollob.

Really doe: How real is what @ab serves up? Here’s what we didn’t see:

The quadriceps injury that kept Brown out of training camp drills and preseason games. Calling a respected white journalist a racist after the writer tweeted that Brown was limping. The deleted Instagram post in which Brown trashed the mother of his three youngest kids.

Pittsburgh is deep into win-now mode. The Steelers, who open their season Sept. 9 against the Browns, haven’t been to the Super Bowl since 2011, when they lost 31-25 to Green Bay. They have the best offensive trio in the league, but quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is 36 and nobody knows when, or if, running back Le’Veon Bell will suit up again in Pittsburgh. Brown is the most reliable of the three on the field, with more than 100 receptions in each of the past five seasons, the longest such streak. At age 30, Brown’s numbers match up with the greatest receiver of all time, Jerry Rice, at the same stage of Rice’s career.

Yet the Steelers are in danger of being eclipsed by their AFC rival, the Patriots, as the greatest franchise in NFL history. As New England marched to a fourth and fifth championship during the past three seasons, Pittsburgh gained a reputation for being undisciplined. Brown helped fuel that perception with behavior such as throwing a water cooler, not staying in the team dorms during training camp and recording an infamous Facebook Live locker room video. (More on that later.)

According to Brown’s Instagram, he’s now fully charged to power Pittsburgh to a seventh Lombardi trophy.

Unless those ripples in his Matrix get in the way.



It’s a sweaty day in late May at Pittsburgh’s practice facility on the banks of the Monongahela River, the second day of voluntary organized team workouts, or OTAs. As Brown came off the field I introduced myself and asked for an interview. He acknowledged me in the distant manner of many star athletes, like a racehorse acknowledging a fly, and breezed past without answering. The next day, Brown was not on the field. He was on his Instagram Stories, sprinting up sand dunes and blasting through squats.

Brown would miss the rest of the workouts, but his teammates and coaches were confident he’d be ready for the season. Entering his ninth pro campaign, earning $17 million per year, a close second among receivers to Odell Beckham Jr.’s new deal, Brown is a certified superstar. His peers voted him the second-best player on the 2018 Top 100 list. He led the NFL last season with 109.5 yards per game, 71 first-down catches and 1,533 receiving yards — in only 14 games. In Pittsburgh’s crushing playoff loss to Jacksonville, matched up against All-Pro cornerback Jalen Ramsey, Brown returned from a badly torn calf muscle to catch seven passes for 132 yards and two touchdowns.


These huge stats come in a small package: Brown is only 5 feet, 10 inches and 181 pounds. At the 2010 NFL combine, he clocked a sluggish 4.56 seconds in the 40-yard dash and a ho-hum vertical leap of 33˝ inches.

So how did he haul in more passes than anyone else over the past five seasons? Instagram has answers.

See him catching bullets from the Jugs machine. Since 2015, Brown has dropped only seven of 512 passes thrown his way. Watch him eat chef-prepared lean meats, veggies and whole grains. His body fat is a pantherlike 3 percent. Check him in the sand, working on his “Tony Toe Tap” footwork. Brown has an entire Nutcracker repertoire of sideline ballets, plus the best separation moves in the game.


This is just a fraction of the work Brown puts in.

“I would take that kid through some s—. It broke other guys down. He’ll fight through it,” said trainer Idi “Bo” Smith, who like Brown hails from the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, a hard-knock ’hood with a bottomless well of athletic talent.

Smith played receiver in the Arena Football League and has trained dozens of football stars. He started working with Brown as a youngster, and he trained and lived with Brown for entire NFL seasons until they parted ways a year ago. Smith says he molded Brown into an improved version of Smith’s best friend and client Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson, another Liberty City product.

“His work ethic is impeccable,” Smith said. “He gon’ go through it. Whatever you got for him, he gon’ go through it.”


Antonio Brown shows off his six-pack during a Steelers practice at Latrobe Memorial Stadium. “His work ethic is impeccable,” says a former trainer.

JORGE SANTIAGO FOR THE UNDEFEATED
In June, Brown arrived at the mandatory Steelers minicamp unhappy about media questions over his absence from OTAs. He also claimed that something he said to reporters at the beginning of OTAs about Bell’s contract holdout — “You can’t make anything better without showing up. … He wants to be here not just for this year, but years to come, come out here and show up.” — was not actually telling Bell to show up.

Standing in front of his locker, surrounded by reporters, Brown said he felt under constant pressure.

“You guys write about me every day. My mom and my kids see it. So we have to deal with these type of things. I started to think to myself, am I really free?” Brown said.

Instagram, by contrast, is specifically constructed to be a happy place, “super positive and optimistic,” without the combat and lynch mobs plaguing other social media platforms. African-Americans are 13 percent of the country’s population but are overrepresented on Instagram and use it at higher rates than whites or Hispanics — a historically silenced people leading a new-millennium conversation. This is where Brown feels free, where he can take a knee or a stand or a shot at his coaches. Where tens of thousands of fans 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 his every post, and haters get 🤚🏽🤚🏽🤚🏽with a tap of the block button.


Compared with Instagram, the world of the NFL can feel confining.

“I can’t really express myself in this game,” Brown said. “I can’t really tell you how I feel.”

Brown has lived through much pain, and refuses to let it go. It both fuels and explains him.

He grew up playing in the Gwen Cherry Park youth leagues of Liberty City, where one coach, Tyrone Hilton, remembers his playing style as shifty and his demeanor as playful: “He always, always had that smile.” But his father, Arena Football League legend Eddie Brown, left when Antonio was a child. Antonio had a difficult relationship with his stepfather and was kicked out of his home at 16. He finished high school jumping from family to family, feeling angry and abandoned. Bad grades derailed Brown’s recruitment by Florida State. He attended a postgrad prep school for a year, lost his scholarship at Florida International University because of an altercation soon after arriving on campus, then ended up at Central Michigan.

Almost all of today’s superstar athletes have been the man since childhood: groomed, stroked and coddled because of their talent. Brown, by contrast, was just another neglected kid balling out in Liberty City, where fast is average and should-have-beens outnumber successes. “I didn’t know he’d be this good,” Hilton said. Brown had to walk on at Central Michigan, arriving on a Greyhound bus with all his possessions in one duffel bag. He entered the 2010 draft small and slow. The Steelers picked him in the sixth round, 195th overall.

No wonder Brown craves attention.

End-zone twerking was for cheerleaders until Brown popped that thang. He did a Wile E. Coyote into the goalpost on another touchdown celebration. In 2016, before the NFL loosened celebration rules, Brown’s end-zone antics were penalized three times and earned $57,733 in fines. He was chauffeured to the 2016 and 2017 training camps in Rolls-Royces, then touched down this summer in a black helicopter, which merited no fewer than eight Instagram posts and an epic Story. Brown hopped out of the chopper with his girlfriend, their three boys and a $7,400 Louis Vuitton briefcase. Completing the ensemble was his 30th birthday present to himself: a $200,000 Cuban link gold chain with a 100-carat, diamond-encrusted pendant, forged from a full kilogram of gold.


America’s blue-chip brands love Brown’s flash. He has endorsed at least a dozen companies, from Pepsi to Visa. Competed shirtless and sequined on Dancing with the Stars. Appeared in Drake’s video for the smash single “God’s Plan.” Released two videos this summer with style brand Complex: one buying sneakers at a high-end boutique, the other inside the sneaker closet in Brown’s mansion, his Jordans and Balenciagas surrounding a large statue of a golden lion.

In July, Brown embarked on a six-city, 12-day, 4,500-mile Destroy The Doubt bus tour for Nike Football, visiting high school teams from tough neighborhoods that experienced winless seasons. Brown’s IG Stories from the trip were bursting with energy, from rock-star entrances to his hype man trailing him on pass routes, phone in shaky hand.

After the tour, Brown jumped right into promoting the latest Madden video game. He’s the first player to appear on the game’s cover without a helmet, his normally inviting smile turnt up to a scream of triumph. I spoke briefly to Brown by phone the day the cover was released (the only time he agreed to talk to The Undefeated) and asked why he posts so many of his workouts.


Brown signs autographs for fans after a pre-season practice at Latrobe Memorial Stadium east of Pittsburgh.

JORGE SANTIAGO FOR THE UNDEFEATED
“I want to encourage the world, encourage everyone watching to work, inspire everyone watching and be a good example,” he said. “Encourage everyone watching to never get content, you know what I mean. Inspire the world in my actions as far as working.”

The commercials have a similar motivation, he said. “Obviously I’m not only just a great athlete, a football player, I got good charisma. … I just want to keep inspiring not only on the field but off the field as well.”

“AB has a charismatic personality; his energy, attitude and focus is infectious. … His love of fashion combined with his dedication to his family allows us to leverage him as a partner who can connect with many different Nike consumers,” said Nike spokesman Josh Benedek. “AB shows his most authentic self in his social media.”

Following Brown’s personal and business relationships is like defending him in single coverage: You’re likely to pretzel yourself into a knot trying to keep up.

Eleven-year-old Antonio Jr. is the son of Shameika Brailsford, an aspiring rapper with two Nicki Minaj-type songs on Soundcloud. Ten-year-old Antanyiah, a budding track star, is the daughter of a hairstylist. Brown does not follow either of their mothers on Instagram. Autonomy, Ali, and 1-year-old Apollo are the sons of Chelsie Kyriss, Brown’s current girlfriend.

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“I’ve got a lot of kids, so my sperm count is good,” Brown boasted in an interview for ESPN’s Body Issue, where he posed naked with a football over his sperm-production equipment.

In February 2017, Brown signed the massive new contract that included a $19 million signing bonus. Two months later, Kyriss, who was pregnant with Apollo, hopped on the ’Gram to vent about Brown’s new relationship with Instagram model Jena Frumes: “you do not look at someone the night you walk out and tell them you appreciate them and love them and to go turn around and do what he’s done to someone … y’all only know what social media shows y’all don’t know what goes on behind closed doors in a good or bad way,” Kyriss wrote.

Brown soon reconciled with Kyriss. Frumes tweeted her heartbreak — plus Brown’s phone number.

Last summer, Brailsford aired Brown out on her Instagram, accusing him of not paying proper child support, failing to send Antonio Jr. to private school and calling their son “that boy.” She also posted screenshots of text messages where Brown, clearly instigated, called her all sorts of names. “Make your own son b—-,” Brown texted, according to Brailsford’s posts. “I got three more boys here.”

Brown fired back by posting bank statements showing $197,000 in child support payments, plus a Story showing Kyriss holding their newborn son, Apollo, with his tiny middle finger flexed and the caption, “My son sums it up.”

Smith, the trainer, also quit in August 2017, posting an acidic resignation on Instagram. ‘Be a MAN of your WORD and own up to your WRONGS as a MAN should,” Smith wrote.


“I don’t want to say nothing bad, but he got character issues,” Smith told me recently. “You act family, always talking God, you not really on that. Stop acting. Got people think you really living that life when you acting. You putting on for social media, bruh.

“He’s an amazing football player and amazing athlete. As far as character, he fooled me.

“It’s probably some s— he went through as a kid he’s still holding onto,” Smith said.

Smith’s departure was not unique. Brown had a difficult separation with chef Nicholas Hasapoglou in 2016 — “I thought he was my friend, and that’s not the case I guess,” Hasapoglou said in a video. This spring, during a dispute over a marketing fee, Brown sent a series of profane text messages to a former business associate, who showed the messages to a reporter but asked that they not be quoted. This summer, Brown distanced himself from still another marketing company, KCB Sports, and went to STB Athletes. Brown’s representatives at STB and his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, did not return phone calls seeking comment.

The family arguments continued this year. On June 4, Brown accused Kyriss on Instagram of not taking care of the two children she had with another man before connecting with Brown. “She has two older kids … she hasn’t seen or claimed in 4 years running around and chasing me!” Brown posted.

In August, I direct-messaged Brailsford, the mother of Brown’s first child, on Instagram and asked for an interview.

“You sure you wanna talk to me? cause he nothing like he portray on the internet,” she responded. We then spoke briefly by phone. She was reluctant to publicly call out her son’s father but wanted people to “know my truth.” We made plans to meet. She texted the day of the meeting to postpone. That same day, Brown posted a back-to-school photo of Antonio Jr. — the boy’s first photo on Brown’s Instagram in five months. I never heard back from Brailsford.

I emailed Frumes, the Instagram model with 3.4 million followers of her own. Four days later, I received a direct message on Instagram. It was from @ab.

“Bro stop hitting my people up looking for stories stay in your lane.”

The @ab Instagram feed disappeared from my phone. Antonio Brown had blocked me.


There has always been a natural tension between athletes and the media. Black athletes, in particular, have often been treated unfairly by an overwhelmingly white press corps that can be ignorant of black culture and experiences. These conflicts usually play out in private.

But when you live life in social media’s hall of mirrors, everything is a spectacle.

On Aug. 7, I went to Steelers training camp to ask Brown about how he uses social media and the turmoil in his personal life. It was his first day back at camp after missing more than a week with what the team called a minor quadriceps injury. As Brown walked up the steps from the practice field and approached about 20 reporters waiting for the players, he pulled his hoodie up so it concealed his face.

“AB, you got a minute?” I said as he walked past about two yards away. He did not pause, turn his head or acknowledge the question. That afternoon, I told the Steelers’ public relations staff about @ab telling me to “stay in my lane” and asked them to talk to Brown about an interview. He angrily refused.

One week later, Ed Bouchette, who has covered the Steelers for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette since 1985 and been honored by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, watched Brown at practice and tweeted: “Antonio Brown limps off practice after some early individual work.” It got 141 retweets and 246 likes.

Bouchette told me that shortly after his tweet, Brown confronted him in person and said, “You a racist, you a racist.” (Bouchette is white.)

That afternoon, Brown retweeted Bouchette with the comment: “Bro seriously have some respect you making s— up clown.” It got more than 5,700 retweets and 29,000 likes. Brown and Bouchette spoke in late August and “cleared the air,” according to a Steelers spokesman.

The next day, Brown tweeted his displeasure with media coverage that mentioned he had been more than four hours late to a Madden-sponsored appearance at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. The day after that, Brown tweeted, “Integrity of journalist” with a video of Denzel Washington critiquing the media.


It should be no surprise that Brown has injected himself with a social media serum, creating an alternate reality in which he is constantly lied about, doubted, disrespected and rejected. He showed us his plans on Jan. 15, 2017, after the Steelers beat the Chiefs 18-16 in Kansas City to advance to the AFC Championship Game.

That was the day Brown famously broadcast live on Facebook from the victorious locker room, causing a distraction that contributed to Pittsburgh getting stomped by New England the following week. Brown had an endorsement deal with Facebook at the time. Most of the attention afterward focused on the churchgoing Tomlin’s use of profanity and how Brown had violated the sanctity of the locker room. What Brown himself does in the 17-minute-plus broadcast got largely overlooked.

He says little. His fluorescent smile amid the jubilation is eloquent enough.

He repeats, “Call God” and “God is the greatest” 18 times. He gets more and more excited as the live viewers pile up. “We got 41K! 42K … we got 44,000 people tuned in, man.”

A reporter asks for an interview. “I can’t do nothing till I shower,” Brown says. “You’re doing something right now,” she responds, pointing into Brown’s camera.

Yes, he was. The formerly abandoned and overlooked boy was seizing the spotlight, on his terms.

“For those who didn’t believe — look at me now, ha haaa,” he crows. “For the time they locked me out the crib they didn’t let me in, haaa! You played yourself. For the time they didn’t recruit me to go to college — haaaa! You played yourself. For the people who rolled up and said I was too small — aahh, haaa.”

Brown puts his phone in his locker, still broadcasting live, and begins to take off his uniform. A few reporters gather. One asks about an interview.

“I can’t do nothing until I wash deez nuts,” Brown responds.

He looks into the camera. “They want to talk when you win, huh. ’Cause I’m up right now.” He takes off his undershirt.

“Facebook Live, I’m live. 43K.

“God is the greatest, man. God is the greatest.”

Brown pulls down his underwear, exposing his butt to the reporters. They don’t look.

Here is the story for the people who don't want to click the link.

Hydrae 09-13-2018 06:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RedRaider56 (Post 13729001)
You should see the treehouse AB had built on an episode of Treehouse Masters
Holy crap...

Emphasis on house.,,and basketball court, and small football field. :eek:

ThaVirus 09-13-2018 06:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by staylor26 (Post 13729112)
That’s just silly.

Brown is going down as arguably a top 3 WR ever.

Meh. Of course it's arguable, like all things are. Rice, Moss, TO, Fitzgerald, Julio, Marvin Harrison, Torry Holt, Calvin Johnson. I just feel like the dude disappears when Ben goes down.

Peters has the talent to retire as the best CB the league's ever seen. He's certainly on pace to be one of the greatest ball hawks ever. He's great in coverage. He's not a willing tackler but when he wants to he's actually really good at that as well.

ThaVirus 09-13-2018 06:50 PM

I'm going to need to see AB and Gronk without Ben and Brady before I anoint either one GOAT status.

Can't wait.

T-post Tom 09-13-2018 07:13 PM

Sadly, our secondary is about to go in full Bartee mode. Whatever the over/under is...bet the over. Gonna be a track meet. Glad Hill is on our side.

staylor26 09-13-2018 07:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThaVirus (Post 13729292)
Meh. Of course it's arguable, like all things are. Rice, Moss, TO, Fitzgerald, Julio, Marvin Harrison, Torry Holt, Calvin Johnson. I just feel like the dude disappears when Ben goes down.

Peters has the talent to retire as the best CB the league's ever seen. He's certainly on pace to be one of the greatest ball hawks ever. He's great in coverage. He's not a willing tackler but when he wants to he's actually really good at that as well.

AB made Big Ben look like an elite QB, not the other way around.

When AB broke out, Ben started putting up big time stats. He never did before.

ThaVirus 09-13-2018 07:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by staylor26 (Post 13729339)
AB made Big Ben look like an elite QB, not the other way around.

When AB broke out, Ben started putting up big time stats. He never did before.

That's not true at all. Ben had some of his best seasons before AB broke out.

chiefstothehouse 09-13-2018 08:31 PM

Great player, but he is capable of a big social mistake that can really hurt the team.

Two-Twenty 09-13-2018 08:53 PM

What's the point of this article really? Just to say "AB looks cool, but hey everyone he's really a piece of shit?"

Why is the media like this?

FAX 09-13-2018 09:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Two-Twenty (Post 13729481)
What's the point of this article really? Just to say "AB looks cool, but hey everyone he's really a piece of shit?"

Why is the media like this?

Definitely a hit piece.

This is why everyone should avoid fame and, whenever possible, go off-grid under an assumed name.

NOT FAX

Nickhead 09-16-2018 11:01 PM

so why was AB so upset during todays game? he was jawing on the sideline before they were down more than 7 points.

was it because this article got under his skin?

ROFL

WhiteWhale 09-16-2018 11:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAX (Post 13729487)
Definitely a hit piece.

This is why everyone should avoid fame and, whenever possible, go off-grid under an assumed name.

NOT FAX

I know man.

For example, I'm not ACTUALLY a whale. :D

suzzer99 09-16-2018 11:53 PM

Interestingly my mom did name me suzzer99, no last name.

Nickhead 09-17-2018 12:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAX (Post 13729487)
Definitely a hit piece.

This is why everyone should avoid fame and, whenever possible, go off-grid under an assumed name.

NOT FAX

i had to leave my home country out of fear of fame :D

Iconic 09-17-2018 12:13 AM

Lol why does it sound like his ex wrote that entire piece. I don't even like Brown, I actually dislike him a lot, but damn does the writer sound like a butt hurt little bitch.

FAX 09-17-2018 12:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nickhead (Post 13739325)
so why was AB so upset during todays game? he was jawing on the sideline before they were down more than 7 points.

was it because this article got under his skin?

ROFL

Can you identify that point in the game, Mr. Nickhead? I have it all cued up here, but I don't know where to start looking.

I'd like to see that, actually. Kind of a schadenfreuden sort of deal, I guess.

FAX

Nickhead 09-17-2018 12:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAX (Post 13739428)
Can you identify that point in the game, Mr. Nickhead? I have it all cued up here, but I don't know where to start looking.

I'd like to see that, actually. Kind of a schadenfreuden sort of deal, I guess.

FAX

i want to say it was about the 9 minute mark of the first quarter... just before kc scores td #2.

not only that, but it carried on all game...

i think by the third quarter i joked in chat that tomlin was gonna DQ him himself.

:thumb:

FAX 09-17-2018 12:25 AM

I was searching for AB getting pissy and instead found the pass to Sammy on the right boundary. Man, that was a beautiful pass. Not bulletesque. A nice, soft rainbow right in the hands after Sammy dusted the guy playing press.

Not going to make it in the highlight reel, but man ...

FAX

FAX 09-17-2018 12:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nickhead (Post 13739431)
i want to say it was about the 9 minute mark of the first quarter... just before kc scores td #2.

not only that, but it carried on all game...

i think by the third quarter i joked in chat that tomlin was gonna DQ him himself.

:thumb:

Okay ... real good.

Thanks, Mr. Nickhead.

FAX THE APPRECIATIVE

Nickhead 09-17-2018 12:33 AM

i figured it out. i think. it was steelers ball, 8:20 seconds left.

the pass went to james. you wont see it until the replay from a different angle, but brown was WIDE ****ING OPEN and james made a contested catch. to brown it would have been a TD...

as to why he carried on his tantrum, i think that is the articles fault :thumb:

Nickhead 09-17-2018 12:34 AM

the very next play ben overthrows brown..

to be continued.... :thumb:

Nickhead 09-17-2018 12:38 AM

matter of fact, i believe there was one point late in the game, steelers threatening to score in the red zone and brown wasn't in on the play. the announcers mentioned it. was it payback by tomlin telling brown who was boss?

to be continued...

:thumb:

FAX 09-17-2018 12:38 AM

Still haven't found it, but I did find the sweep to Sammy and Kelce laid an awesome block to spring him.

The other thing I've noticed is that Rapetheburger was groveling for a "roughing" call every single time he got hit. Every single time. He would writhe and convulse and grab his head and grimace horribly. What a pussy.

Upon review, it looks like we basically kicked their ass.

FAX

FAX 09-17-2018 12:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nickhead (Post 13739439)
i figured it out. i think. it was steelers ball, 8:20 seconds left.

the pass went to james. you wont see it until the replay from a different angle, but brown was WIDE ****ING OPEN and james made a contested catch. to brown it would have been a TD...

as to why he carried on his tantrum, i think that is the articles fault :thumb:

8:20 left 1st quarter?

FAX

FAX 09-17-2018 12:43 AM

Found it. The one where AB started pointing backwards ...

I thought he was pointing at the official ... begging for a flag ala Rapey.

FAX

Nickhead 09-17-2018 12:45 AM

https://triblive.com/sports/steelers...ng-chiefs-game

Quote:

Is Antonio Brown frustrated? No one knows – because he won’t tell us.

The Pittsburgh Steelers’ star receiver, though, appeared frustrated when he was spotted speaking demonstratively with his offensive coordinator during the second half of the Steelers loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in their home opener Sunday.

After the game ended, though, Brown dressed and left the Steelers locker room before the media entered it. He was the only player who played in the game who left so quickly.

With the Steelers trailing the Chiefs for the vast majority of the loss and Brown’s receiving yards (67) ranking just third of the team well into the fourth quarter, Brown looked to vent to first-year coordinator Randy Fichtner. Wide receivers coach Darryl Drake was standing nearby, too.

Nickhead 09-17-2018 12:55 AM

i have to admit, i don't have the ability to scan thru for sideline tantrums, but there were at least 7 incidents i would say where i thought brown was gonna go belcher on someone.

ROFL

FAX 09-17-2018 12:59 AM

Dang ... I've been scanning like a lost spaceship ...

Can't find it. I'll renew the search tomorrow.

Thanks for the help, Mr. Nickhead.

FAX

Nickhead 09-17-2018 01:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAX (Post 13739447)
8:20 left 1st quarter?

FAX

sorry, yes

eDave 09-17-2018 01:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rausch (Post 13728786)
Ruthless-rapist isn't very good these days...

Every one of his deep balls today were terrible.

Nickhead 09-17-2018 01:27 AM

i am going to leave this conundrum to the experts but i believe AB was mad because he could have amassed over 400 yards if he were looked at...

because chiefs secondary? :D

ETA:

in the 3rd quarter, brown is seen with a sore ankle, taking it out on everyone like he's ray rice, 7:41 on the timestamp ROFL

Nickhead 09-17-2018 01:55 AM

oh shit, he threw his helmet down seconds later ROFL

this is like watching 90210 :thumb:


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