Antonio Brown went on quite a tear after he ripped his jersey and shirt off and abruptly exited the field when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers squared off against the New York Jets a couple months back.
He went on a rampage about how head coach Bruce Arians and the Bucs were making him play through an ankle injury, with that being one of the reasons why he quit.
There has really been no evidence that Brown’s claims were true, but it appears he’s ready to set the record straight.
He posted an MRI today of his injured ankle, saying it proves that the team tried to “intentionally” hurt him by forcing him to play while injured.
In the video of the MRI, which was posted to AB’s IG story, you can hear a man explaining to Brown that he had a bone spur and other issues with his ankle.
The captions read:
“They tried to hurt me intentionally @Bucaneers.”
“Sent me out there after knowing I was still hurt.”
“Tom said he would throw it if I came to play hurt. I came.
“He didn’t throw it, imagine being hurt having to play through this and being lied to.”
“Coach said if I couldn’t run on this get the fuck out of here.”
“Fuck all you MF.”
“Still can’t stop me @NFL.”
However, after fans on social media pointed out that MRI was taken on October 15th, two months before the game against the Jets.
After the October 14th game, Antonio Brown missed a handful of games with the ankle injury. His first game back was December 26th against the Carolina Panthers. And when he left the game against the Jets the next week, he already had amassed 5 targets.
So to say the he didn’t get any targets doesn’t make any sense. And of course they were aware of that MRI, he missed a bunch of games after it.
In Brown’s interview with HBO’s “Real Sports,” he claims that the Bucs intentionally injected him with the painkiller Toradol before the Panthers game and Jets game to help with his hurt ankle, according to Touchdown Wire.
And on top of that, he also claims that the team offered him $200,000 to go to the “crazy house.”
His attorney Sean Burstyn was there for the interview, and he said:
“To the extent any of that is coming from a spin that Antonio had a spontaneous mental episode, it’s resentful and it’s hurtful and it’s a disservice to people who do suffer from mental health challenges.
We all have our difficulties… Antonio, myself, everybody.”
Brown added:
“Yeah, these guys at Tampa Bay Bucs tried to make an agreement with me to give me $200,000 to go to the crazy house so these guys could look like they know what they’re talking about.”
Burstyn went on:
“The offer was Antonio would basically sit on the sidelines, go on some list, and commit himself to some form of intensive mental health treatment.
And we were specifically told in writing by the general manager twice don’t spin this any other way.”
He also claimed that Bucs head coach Bruce Arians was lying when he said Brown was mad at halftime because he wasn’t getting more passes.
