Antonio Brown Going to War With Patriots, Raiders, and NFL With Record 9 Appeals and Grievances

Antonio Brown

Antonio Brown is not going gentle into early retirement. He’s putting up a fight and ESPN reports he’s taking on, well, everyone.

That means his former teams—the Raiders and briefly the New England Patriots, who dropped him after he was hit with rape allegations in a lawsuit—and the NFL. As far as he’s concerned he’s owed over $61 million and will keep the league on notice till he gets paid.

Antonio Brown thinking about his money

From ESPN:

The grievances and appeals involve the following issues and sums of money:

• Fine appeals with the Oakland Raiders: $215,000
• Salary guarantees with Oakland: $29 million
• Signing bonus with Raiders: $1 million
• Oakland’s unpaid Week 1 salary: $860,000
New England Patriots‘ salary guarantee: $1 million
• Patriots signing bonus: $9 million
• Patriots’ unpaid Week 3 salary: $64,000
• Patriots’ option year in 2020: $20 million

As if that wasn’t enough, if the NFL disciplines Brown and suspends him — which is well within the realm of possibility — Brown could appeal that as well, which would make him the first player in NFL history to have nine different appeals generated from one season.

Brown is apparently ready to pretty much fight anyone. On Saturday he got into a Twitter beef with Cleveland Browns QB Baker Mayfield that made for a few minutes’ worth of entertainment. 

Someone accused Mayfield of making an Antonio Brown-like post on social media and Mayfield replied, “you’re right… let me call out my teammates and throw a fit about my helmet then go freeze my feet off”—references to issues involving Brown in the past.

The helmet, for example—Brown raised a big stink when playing for the Raiders after being told he couldn’t use the same helmet he’d worn for nine seasons. 

Brown caught wind of Baker Mayfield’s comments and went on a tweeting spree:

In a tweet he figured was a bit too far, apparently, Brown also wrote, “Sorry ass Chico keep rolling right you ain’t done nothing in this league the internet only place u would ever talk too or about me; you know u get beat quick slice u up some humble pie.”

Brown also went at it on social media with Los Angeles Rams player Eric Weddle.

Antonio Brown is an unrestricted free agent after being let go by the New England Patriots. But he’s facing allegations from two women of sexual assault and misconduct, so at the moment he’s pretty much poison to the NFL—and the XFL doesn’t want anything to do with him, either. 

The NFL is investigating the accusations against Brown. 

Meanwhile, Antonio Brown has enrolled in online college courses and is even using Twitter to solicit aid with English papers. 

As everyone knows, Twitter is full of trustworthy scholars. So good luck with that. 

Motorola Will Debut Razr Foldable Before the End of 2019

In an exclusive, CNET reported Saturday that after missing a summer launch window, a source “close to the company” indicated Motorola will announce the mythical new folding Razr before the end of 2019. No word on when the all-screen smartphone will be available to purchase, but apparently the message here is that they’re working on it. 

As CNET notes this might put the Razr behind Huawei’s Mate and Samsung’s Fold in consumer awareness—but then again, Motorola (owned by Lenovo) has had time to learn from other foldable phones’ mistakes.

Well, from the Samsung Galaxy Fold’s mistakes. The Fold, which is now available to purchase, was initially introduced with a number of issues including its folding screen, which warped and crinkled after just a little bit of use. 

It seems unwise to play with the Razr’s legacy, so delaying release as the many issues inherent in a foldable phone’s potentially flimsy design get worked out makes sense. After all, the Motorola Razr was once so dominant in the cell phone game only the iPhone‘s revolutionary capabilities could replace it. CNET notes:

Motorola’s original Razr was one of the most recognizable phone brands and carried the company to success in the flip phone market. The ultrathin phone first started off at the then-outrageous price of $500 as an exclusive phone for Cingular Wireless (now AT&T). It became one of the most popular phones in history, selling more than 50 million units within two years of its 2004 debut.

But Motorola didn’t take advantage of the success of the Razr, and it struggled to compete with Apple and others in smartphones. 

Users who recall the Razr could still tell you immediately why everyone loved it—it looked great, was ultra-light and fit perfectly in your pocket with whatever else you had to haul around. 

Smartphones have been steadily pushing upward in size ever since—Motorola introducing a device that fits standard smartphone dimensions but then easily folds away might be a genius marketing move. 

Do Apple or Samsung actually have something to worry about? Will the revived Razr look like all the sleek renders produced from its patent application (see above)? 

Apparently it’s all but official that we’ll know before the New Year.