With every new piece of information that surfaces regarding Antonio Brown's hasty exodus from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the stranger the whole ordeal seems.

Brown and the Buccaneers have each been trying to push their sides of the story. Brown claimed that Tampa Bay failed to properly treat an injury of his and then took to social media to take jabs at Tom Brady and Bruce Arians, who has tried to do damage control for the Bucs. Arians has explained that Brown was upset over his lack of targets during halftime and that the team tried to help him before cutting ties.

Last Sunday marked Brown's last game with the Buccaneers and he went out with a huge bang — not just for how it ended, but because of something that happened before the game. According to TMZ, before Brown swiftly left Tampa Bay's game against the New York Jets and threw clothes into the stands, he signed a fan's COVID-19 vaccine card during pregame warmups.

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The kicker: earlier this season, Brown was suspended for three games for violating the NFL's COVID policy and supposedly submitting a fake vaccination card to the team.

Brown has been an excruciating headache for multiple teams for years now. His latest outburst may have been his last chance, though he has found his way onto teams amid controversy in the past. For Tampa Bay, they look ahead to a Week 18 matchup with the Carolina Panthers and the playoffs.