Last week I wrote a blog titled, “Mother of NFL Buyers Remorse”, speculating on whether the New England Patriots, who (at least publicly) found out about the rape charge against newly-acquired Antonio Brown, would be pressured into suspending him or nullifying the trade altogether.
Now we have our answer. Antonio Brown has been released by the Patriots.
Will he be able to keep the insane $9 million signing bonus he was given? I don’t see how he loses it: it was a signing bonus, he signed, and it is the Patriots, not him, ending their relationship…unless – as my son pointed out to me – it can be shown that he knew the charges were imminent and either kept quiet or lied about them. But even if he did, I would think there’s a strong case for him keeping the money.
Either way, he’s gone. And although – let’s be fair here – so far these are only charges, Antonio Brown has not been convicted of a thing, I can’t imagine any other NFL team coming near him.
There’s got to be a lesson in here somewhere about paying a huge up-front bonus to a player with the troubled recent past of Antonio Brown (New England was his third team in a matter of weeks). But, based on other contracts I’ve seen, it is a lesson most sports teams probably would not learn.
Hey, maybe Brown can go on tour with Colin Kaepernick…
The article i read the other day said the Pats will only be paying him for the 2 weeks he was with the team. He violated a section of his contract, is the reason the Pats gave for not having to pay the bonus.
I also read at least one of the accusers offered to keep quiet if he paid her $2 million.
I found the “threatening” tweets. Now I wish someone would show me the threats.
https://foxsportsradio.iheart.com/content/2019-09-20-another-woman-reveals-threatening-text-messages-sent-from-antonio-brown/
I don’t know if this guy sexually assaulted anyone, I do know we have seen many times where a man is accused and eventually we find out it was a lie.
I think that the woman having asked for $2 million to keep quiet says a lot.