After his “controversial departure from the Oakland raiders” to the patriots, Antonio Brown was released by the patriots 11 days later. Some of his stats were from 2011-2016 8,210 receiving yards and 50 touchdowns. And is known as a "superstar wide receiver"
It’s not the first time Antonio Brown is in the news. This starts back in 2017 after the incident of violating the league policy and live streaming the Pittsburgh celebrating their win over the chiefs. Later that month facebook told Brown and paid him 244,000 to record, and was fined 10,000. December 2018 throwing a football at his QB, causing him to be benched for the next game but as the last time, he was in a steelers jersey. At the beginning of the year, Brown was very boastful in his statement “ I don’t even have to play football if I don’t want” and I don’t even need the game. I don’t need to prove nothing to anyone if they wanna play they going to play by my rules”. In addition in his mind, he thought about money and was earning 17 million dollars annually. And with the deal signed for the raiders to pay him 50.13 million in the next 3 years.
Enough about his past, Antonio Brown was accused of sexual assault and rape on former trainer Britney Taylor. Britney told she was raped on three incidents of sexual assault from 2017-2018 (i won’t go in-depth of what he was accused, I will leave a link of what he did) Ultimately the statement of “innocent unless proven guilty” probably toyed in his mind. Since after his 11th day of a patriot player he was released.
Do you think his arrogant personality caused him to ruin his career?
After being released, do you think he should ever get a pro contract again?
Sexual assault is still one of many problems the U.S still faces today, what should the U.S do better/ improve to decrease the sexual assault allegations?
4 comments:
AB's fall is not entirely self given as the hit he suffered from vontaze burfirct in the playoffs could have spurred the development of CTE as in the case of many other football player turned criminal, ie Aaron Hernandez. Obviously we should consider people innocent until proven guilty, but AB has a history of acting against the law and the sheer volume of the allegations hint that there is a great problem in how he acts, even if he hasn't committed any crimes. Despite the possibility of a concussion, a lot of this is self-inflicted as he sees himself as the victim in these scenarios and refuses to change himself. AB is a terrible person and despite his proven talent, he is a cancer to football and should never play again if the NFL wants to keep its integrity as a professional sport. I don't believe that the US should try to combat the amount of allegations as if assaults are happening we should encourage allegations.
I agree with Ryan that AB should not be permitted back in the NFL, while I do not share the same fervor against AB, I believe that he is unprofessional and immature. It is quite possible that he could be a victim of CTE, however it was uncovered that AB hired a social media advisor to help get him out of his contract with the Oakland Raiders. Therefore, one can infer that his outbursts on social media outlets such as Instagram and Twitter could be the from the recommendations of his advisor as means to increase publicity. I believe it was these outbursts that most significantly impacted the end of career, although there is no denying that the sexual assault allegations against him did also contribute. While nobody can know what goes on inside the brain of AB, it's not difficult to see his egocentric thought process when he label's himself as the "answer key" of football.
I agree with Anna and Aryan that Antonio Brown is quite arrogant and egocentric, given that it is either “his way or the highway” for most of his career. His complaint about the new helmet especially stood out to me, knowing that it shouldn’t be a big deal compared to every other thing he has committed. However, I think that this personality was unfortunately developed through years of hard work and praising such as Gruden’s quote “if you get a chance to watch him practice, you'll see what unlocks the greatness in him. He's the hardest-working man, I think, in football. Hardest-working player I've ever seen practice.” I feel that these words, as well as his collaboration with facebook (paid Brown $244,000 at the start of the 2017 season to create content for them), guided Antonio Brown in the wrong direction, thus ruining his career. After being released, I definitely think that Antonio should no longer be able to play in the NFL because of his constant false apologies followed by new violations, although I feel that it would be hard for him to find an NFL job anyway given his circumstances.
I agree with Anna and Aryan that Antonio Brown is quite arrogant and egocentric, given that it is either “his way or the highway” for most of his career. His complaint about the new helmet especially stood out to me, knowing that it shouldn’t be a big deal compared to every other thing he has committed. However, I think that this personality was unfortunately developed through years of hard work and praising such as Gruden’s quote “if you get a chance to watch him practice, you'll see what unlocks the greatness in him. He's the hardest-working man, I think, in football. Hardest-working player I've ever seen practice.” I feel that these words, as well as his collaboration with facebook (paid Brown $244,000 at the start of the 2017 season to create content for them), guided Antonio Brown in the wrong direction, thus ruining his career. After being released, I definitely think that Antonio should no longer be able to play in the NFL because of his constant false apologies followed by new violations, although I feel that it would be hard for him to find an NFL job anyway given his circumstances.
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