The embattled Antonio Brown set the sports world on fire this past Sunday. After reportedly refusing to go back into the game, he took off his football gear and strolled to the locker room shirtless. Many people jumped to conclusions of exactly what happened. Until Wednesday, Brown had remained silent.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown finally released a statement, taking to Twitter. He detailed exactly how bad his injury was after supposedly getting an MRI done no his ankle.
“I acknowledge my past. But my past does not make me a second class citizen. My past does not forfeit my right to be heard when I am in pain.” https://t.co/nZIThceLwE
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) January 6, 2022
As NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport tweeted out, Brown is set to have ankle surgery. He provided great detail on the severity of his ankle injury.
Brown claimed that the team shot him up with a “powerful and sometimes dangerous painkiller that the NFLPA has warned against using.”
He then detailed how he relented to the pressure from his head coach to play injured, despite the pain. He explains in great detail the exact conversation he and Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians had on the sidelines.
Brown claims that the initial reports were accurate. Arians tried forcing him into the game. He was unable to continue because of the injury he had previously sustained. Coach Arians told him “You're done.” That prompted him to walk off the field. Brown says that he was cut, he did not leave his team behind.
Brown took initiative and went and had an MRI Monday morning. The organization reportedly had ordered him to see a doctor of their choosing, unaware that he had already seen one. The MRI supposedly showed bone fragments in his ankle, with the ligament torn from the bone and cartilage loss.
He called out the Tampa Bay Buccaneers organization for covering it up. He says they tried to make him look crazy and further the story that his mental illness was the cause of the outburst Sunday.
There is almost certainly more to come from this developing story.
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