Is Antonio Brown done with the NFL?
The controversial wide receiver tweeted Sunday that's the case, then fired off a flurry of tweets pointing out the alleged sexual misdeeds of Patriots owner Robert Kraft and former Steelers teammate Ben Roethlisberger. He later deleted the latter tweets.
The Patriots released Brown Friday after learning he allegedly sent threatening text messages to a woman who had accused him of sexual misconduct. Another woman has sued Brown, claiming he sexually assaulted her three times in two years.
One of Brown's tweets seems to indicate he's walking away from the league. He tweeted: "Will not be playing in the @NFL anymore these owners can cancel deals do whatever they want at anytime we will see if the @NFLPA hold them accountable sad they can just void guarantees anytime going on 40m 2 months will see if they pay up !"
Will not be playing in the @NFL anymore these owners can cancel deals do whatever they want at anytime we will see if the @NFLPA hold them accountable sad they can just void guarantees anytime going on 40m 2 months will see if they pay up !
— AB (@AB84) September 22, 2019
Brown's reference to the $40 million in two months is about the guaranteed money he forfeited with the Raiders ($29 million), who released him Sept. 7, and the Patriots, who signed him two days later to a one-year, $15 million contract that included $9 million in guaranteed money.
Brown's Twitter explosion Sunday morning suggests he feels there's a double standard in the NFL involving his actions and those of others associated with the league. Referencing Kraft's highly publicized charge for soliciting prostitution at a Florida massage parlor earlier this year, Brown tweeted, "Kraft got caught in the parlor AB speculations fired different strokes different folks clearly."
Interestingly, the photo Brown used in that tweet was of him with Britney Taylor, the woman who accused him of rape and sexual assault.
As for his former Steelers teammate, Roethlisberger, who served a four-game suspension in 2010 after allegations arose he had sexually assaulted a woman in a Georgia nightclub, Brown tweeted headlines from the case and noted, "4 games for Big Ben crazy world I’m done with it"
Brown also sent out a tweet calling out Shannon Sharpe, cohost of ESPN's "Skip and Shannon: Undisputed with Skip Bayless," who has been critical of the wide receiver. Sharpe was falsely accused in 2010 of sexually assaulting and threatening a woman who claimed to be his girlfriend.
Sharpe later addressed the incident on Twitter.
This is in response to @AB84 and all those that want to know my situation from 2010 🤫 pic.twitter.com/GxhZPvV7pz
— shannon sharpe (@ShannonSharpe) September 22, 2019
Brown's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, revealed Saturday he'd been in contact with "a few" NFL teams interested in Brown's legal status.