Good riddance, Antonio Brown [UPDATED]

One thing slightly odd occurred in the course of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers-New York Jets recreation, the place Antonio Brown pulled off his jersey and shoulder pads within the third quarter and threw up the peace signal as he walked towards the locker room.

Now I do know you’re saying that is Antonio Brown, and odd appears to be a part of the bundle with him over the previous few years. However even this outburst of emotion was unusual for him, no less than in public. Brown is at all times described as a man that loves soccer, regardless of his quite a few makes an attempt at torpedoing his personal profession.

I’m not absolving him of any wrongdoing as a result of we all know he’s introduced all the destructive consideration on himself. Prior to now a number of years. Brown has been accused of sexual misconduct by a number of girls (he settled a civil lawsuit accusing him of forcible rape in April), and was caught on video verbally assaulting the mom of his kids (in entrance of the kids), whereas encouraging the police to “Slam her ass, slam her! Slam her!” in 2020.

Each time there’s a brand new story within the headlines on Brown, it seems like a man who’s screaming out for some form of assist, not to say the assistance those that have been harmed by him probably want. Most lately, the faux covid vaccination playing cards solely got here to mild as a consequence of him skipping out on paying somebody who’d carried out work for him in his home. And that wasn’t the primary time we’d heard that form of story about Brown.

Most of his indiscretions have been off the soccer subject, which is what makes this one stand out a lot. In sports activities, and particularly on the skilled stage, the very last thing anybody desires to be often called is a quitter, whilst everyone knows that being labeled a rapist and an abuser are issues athletes can simply survive, given sufficient expertise. You simply don’t see gamers depart in the course of a recreation, particularly when enjoying for a workforce that gained a championship the earlier season and could possibly be ready to win one other.

This can undoubtedly be a narrative price following as extra data comes out over the following few days. We don’t know if this was goodbye endlessly or if Brown’s frustration simply acquired the perfect of him at that second. I do know that Antonio wants some sort of assist off the sphere, as do these in his orbit. 5 years in the past, Brown had such a promising profession left forward of him, and now we not often discuss simply his play on the sphere.

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