Antonio Brown Files for Bankruptcy Following Disgraced NFL Exit | The Dan Le Batard Show

statistic I want to ask you about a person in sports who is going to generate very little sympathy, very little compassion. The last few years of this person's public life have seemed to be a real disintegration. Antonio Brown went from being the best reliever to the best receiver in football. for someone who took a hit in a game that in a few years, when we look at the science, we will be able to identify it. Oh, that's what exasperated or exacerbated the CTE. His public crisis has been something that seems like it could be related. to football quite easily and openly to not excuse anything that he has done, but we will know more about it in years and today he declared

bankruptcy

or yesterday he declared

bankruptcy

and, in fact, it hurt me on his behalf . for what life is going to be like now that you have become accustomed to having all the money in the world and now you are entering a phase of your life in which you will not be able to recover that anywhere nor will your reputation be in tatters and you don't seem mentally stable in any way and I don't think there's going to be much sympathy for Antonio Brown, but knowing that his story started in Miami homeless and this is not a place to not have a home, his journey to the top of sports was pretty surprising to see because it didn't come through the big schools and didn't have much support, so he came to adulthood and fame and money at a time when he couldn't. handle it and I don't want to make him a victim here because the things he has done are really bad, not only are they publicly embarrassing, but they are things that have hurt people and yet I felt bad for him when I saw the Declaration of bankruptcy because I think he's not going to be able to organize his finances for the rest of his life in a way that allows him to fix the fact that everything has been wasted.

He earned $88 million during his career and is filing. because of bankruptcy uh, I feel bad for Antonio Brown because it's the unknown that you feel bad about, it's what football did to Antonio Bram, uh, how did it affect his life, his career, all the crazy things he's done in the last years? I'm not excusing it, but you wonder how it impacts football. There's a long list of things that maybe you could get us, uh, that list of things because I don't want to overlook what has been very bad behavior. I'm going to make the majority of people listen to this I don't think I'm the minority I think it will be the majority of them don't care they threw it all away another other guy who had all the things I dream of having and could not No I find a way to handle it.

I guess he generates very little sympathy if he had the opportunity to play in the NFL. I do this all the time. I'm guilty of it too, but this. It's what fans do and I made $88 million. I would never waste that opportunity, but you don't know, because you don't know what football does to your body and your brain. Yes, I feel bad for Antonio Brown too, but when I mentioned 88 million million in career earnings, that's why he won't get sympathy from most people. I'm worried about his mental health. I worry about what he might be driven to do next, but I also think that today. the fact that it's controversial, uh, the fact that it's had all these episodes, there's a lot of podcasts out there that will say if you want to come, Greg, no, no, you don't want to come, like one thing will pay you. to make it profitable no, exploit, you're sure he doesn't have a career ahead of him, he doesn't have a career in the media, he's controversial, he's tried the music career he's been on, he's worked a little with it, that's what it's true that Cameron and Mace have had it pretty regularly, he could have had a career in the media, he decided not to, um, that day was probably over, for whatever, so I'm asking this question to the audience because there's so much people in his rearview mirror who are actual victims, so I understand why anything that sounds like we're advocating victimhood for him could come off badly because people don't want to see the humanity in that sport when it's damaged like that and has to be reconciled. with What do we do on Sundays?

Where we, Man vontz Berf, pride ourselves on doing that. That's something at that time. I hate the Steelers and that's what I was trying to do. I wasn't following the rules. I don't care about your safety. vones beri has said publicly that it is something that he was trying to manage, it is something that I am proud to have managed and within the context of that environment, I ask you what football does to these people. I think why is it hard to feel anything for my dog ​​because on top of the heinous crimes he was accused of and the child support and all the things that have him locked up for throwing rocks and nebor all these things his usual internet personality in this moment he's still attacking everyone so and so at worst you know what I mean it's like he's still getting mad at Tom Brady posting pictures of Iselle at one point they wear out their welcome on us like they can do their own thing, but when it comes to sympathy, I'm pretty sure not.

Nobody doesn't have sympathy for me if I do all that, it's hard to have, let me ask you guys. This question was just out of curiosity, as Demar de Rozan and Kevin Love took it to everyone, brought it to a predominantly male audience, and brought a conversation that men don't talk about to a male audience when we talk about Ray Rice. or Diddy and we say well, what do you think domestic abuse is like? You've been reading about it for years. What do you think mental illness is like? What are the things I have to put in front of you for you to say oh Antonio?

Brown, that guy, there's a lot of things in there that I don't want to, I don't want to say that everyone who has a mental illness is this type of mental illness, but what do I have to put in front of you for you? I'll give you my personal example I didn't know when I was in this it was 20 years ago Ricky Williams retires he's living in a tent in Australia I didn't know I didn't understand that what was going on there was oh well, well, yeah, okay, that something must have happened there that I have no knowledge or information about even though I am very close to it.

It happened to my brother St Gods, my brother, towards the end of his life. brother who I love and I know we were dealing with spiraling things that I didn't recognize and they are in my brother's body and because of that I am not well equipped. I wonder: what is this? I don't recognize how much I love this person. This person, what is this? Where does the disease begin? and it starts off like because my brother had a little bit of arrogance and I don't recognize it, so I innocently ask them not to do it. Antonio Brown, give me an example from now on.

In sports, what do you think it looks like when people talk about the Snub in the B? Desperation at the end of the web because if I had to nominate someone in sports right now for exhibiting behavior that seems out of control and extreme and not just stereotypical athlete immaturity or stereotypical athlete recklessness that there may be something else at play I'll just tell you I ask over and over what you think he looks like I think he looks like Antonio Brown I don't think you'll go from 88 million to bankrupt Unless your life is full of terrible decisions and I don't know if it's CTE or not, you usually don't associate CTE with the wide receiver position, but it might as well be, but there has to be some type of mental illness involved here.

Just Jason Kelce says he can practically guarantee us that he has CTE. He's entering the next phase of his career and he says he can practically guarantee he has CTE himself, but I think in the NFL collisions impact everyone differently, so you're right. about Jason Kelsey has said that but billyon spent I don't know 20 30 minutes every week with Mike Gock on God Bless Football and he said football didn't affect his mental or physical health yes he limps yes there are things but Mike Olik looks great and feels great great, so I think we're all different in terms of how football impacts them.

I think it comes down to genetics, as last summer we saw a Charlotte Hornets brother, Kai Jones, his streak of activity seemed like something was wrong, but then he got the right help and credits the father of the NBA for giving him the help you need, so I think when it comes to mental health, it's genetics and there are so many different chemicals that influence who you are in your life. biology that is a little difficult to detect in some people. I should say it's off the high end here because no I really don't want to turn this into Antonio Brown as a victim, the domestic assault allegations and the sexual assault allegations against him are serious ones I'm talking about now he's going bankrupt and life you have already seen whatever he gained financially from football the report the news is that now it has been wasted and I say once all that comes into his life as he knew it was already over and the consequences that loom for all those actions are about to bury him.

He will never be able to live the life that he used to live and that has been wasted. Do we know that though because like Mike Tyson filed for bankruptcy? filed for bankruptcy B Reynolds filed for bankruptcy like Donald Trump filed for bankruptcy there are many celebrities who have filed for bankruptcy and apparently haven't changed their lifestyle in any way, right, a new season of power is coming, never You'd go up to 50 Cent, right? now and you say you can't do what you used to do, you wouldn't call that guy bankrupt, 50 filed for bankruptcy like years and years ago, so I feel like this may be a necessary thing for whatever financial thing you're trying to figure out. stay out.

I agree that I don't think bankruptcy destroys one's hope and future and I am a little surprised to hear you say that in the age of content Antonio Brown cannot be redeemed he does not employ the crimes are too serious the accusations are too serious It seems like brother, it seems like that, I understand it, but you say that he tried rap, no, no, no, no, he didn't try rap, he started a phenomenon that went around the world, he put it like random people said it, now it's like seems. Grim for him No disrespect to his generation, but to us this seems normal, bro, he probably owes someone some money.

I haven't ousted him and I'm still living the same life he's been living. I don't see what you see. I see them, they think, oh, you think he'll be fine financially just by hiding behind the legal veneer. You guys accidentally didn't watch MTV Cribs and don't know what local real estate costs in taxes are. he won't be able to continue living the same lifestyle the bubble of protection that bankruptcy provides him it's not that we just it's not a death sentence that's what you're making it is no it's not a death sentence he's not going to die Well, he will, but the identity he used to have, the identity that is gone and gone forever, he killed it himself, though.