Antonio Brown Attacks Reporters, Ryan Clark on Social Media
Former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown lashed out against the media in general, and his former Steelers teammate Ryan Clark specifically, in a bizarre series of social media posts on Monday morning.
Brown has been in the news for a Florida judge issuing an arrest warrant for him after he failed to make a $15,000 child support payment earlier this month. It’s the second time Florida law enforcement has been sent after Brown to get him to pay child support in recent years. He can have the warrant rescinded if he pays the full amount.
Brown seemed to take issue of the coverage of his latest legal escapade, of which he has had dozens in his highly publicized decline from being one of the top wide receivers in all of football during his time with the Steelers.
Editor’s note: Brown’s posts contain repeated profanity.
“Fuvk the bitch ass reporter who ever wrote the story!” Brown wrote on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter. “You Mf don’t know shit about me ! Where I came from what I been through!!”
He specifically attacked NFL content aggregator Dov Kleiman, calling him a “lying ahh cracker.”
Fuvk the bitch ass reporter who ever wrote the story! you Mf don’t know shit about me ! where I came from what I been through!!! @NFL_DovKleiman where the police bro they still want me lying ahh cracker
— AB (@AB84) August 28, 2023
He then turned his sights on Clark, who shared the Steelers locker room with Brown from 2010-13.
“Ryan Clark been a bitch in media say things then apologize next AB name drop we gone strike yo ass boy,” Brown wrote. “Champ had me spare u last time we spin yo ass for confusion boy rap life.”
Brown apparently took issue with Clark becoming a broadcaster after his playing career and covering the Steelers.
“If you played for the Steelers don’t talk about no Steeler in public,” he wrote. “House Rules. Fraternity. Open Kumbaya.”
If you played for the Steelers don’t talk about no Steeler in public
House Rules
FraternityOpen Kumbaya
— AB (@AB84) August 28, 2023
Clark responded diplomatically.
“You got it Lil Bro,” he wrote. “I have no more beef with you. Whatever you need to get off of your chest, do it. No need to spare me, but I hope you’re well my man. If you need me I’m here to help. If you want something else I’m here for that too. God bless!”
You got it Lil Bro. I have no more beef with you. Whatever you need to get off of your chest, do it. No need to spare me, but I hope you’re well my man. If you need me I’m here to help. If you want something else I’m here for that too. God bless! https://t.co/8jH8pCG6NH
— Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) August 28, 2023
Brown has rarely responded to the heaping amounts of negative coverage from the various legal entanglements that he’s been in since his career started to fall apart in 2018, making his Monday outburst a strange one, even for Brown.
“My CTE acting up,” he wrote. “Fuck all y’all whoever played on my name.”
My CTE acting up Fuck all y’all whoever played on my name
— AB (@AB84) August 28, 2023
Brown’s legal drama has been so well documented that the NFL has changed its rules in order to better fit situations like the ones Brown presented over the years.
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