AB received a one year grace period last year for his now 12 year old helmet. This is not a race issue. This is a stupidity issue.

last year was the grace year for all players. coverage on this issue has been extremely clear (if not here, then elsewhere)
Antonio Brown is a stupid little boy throwing a shit fit because he doesn’t want to eat his peas.

Brown cannot wait to catch passes from Landry Jones again.

Here’s what I don’t get: with everything at stake for everyone involved, why can’t we just get the world’s leading helmet designer and sit him in a room with AB and some safety guy from the league and custom design a helmet that everyone is happy with? This seems to be largely a dick measuring contest at this point,…

Pretty sure Gruden is eventually going to go plaid.

According to this previous Deadspin post, Brown’s helmet is now 12 years old. It would have been 11 years old last year which means he may have gotten the same one year grace period. He just didn’t use it to find a new helmet that he could accept. The reporting has been unclear on this point.

Brown’s frustrated with the league, and for good reason: The NFL hadn’t banned or even tested his preferred model until he made an issue of it this summer, meaning that every other NFL player with a helmet older than a decade, including Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady, had one-year grace periodsto [sic] find new models…

AB had the grace period last season like everyone else. Brady’s on record about not liking the new helmet too:

“Find a partner you love as much as Antonio Brown loves that helmet.”

On the flip side, Vince McMahon is probably salivating over the idea of having Antonio Brown in the XFL.

He got the same grace period.

so Brown is going to pack up and go somewhere else if people don’t give in to his demands? I wonder where he got the idea that would work?

He got a grace period, the article is wrong. Last year was his grace period, just like Rodgers and Brady.

I believe the logical conclusion is that AB retires to become a helmet designer, and uses Lavar Ball’s manufacturing connections to go to market.  

Inject this straight into my veins. I need this saga to be drawn out as long as possible, bringing the Raiders, AB, and everyone else past their breaking points. I need panicked public statements, I need social media meltdowns, and I need Jon Gruden turning shades of red that even Deadpsin couldn’t photoshop. I love…

Wow, that’s crazy. I played high school football in Texas the same years as Ced. My team was a state finalist senior year year (in a different classification), but all coverage that year was on Benson’s final year at Midland Lee. If you’re weren’t there, you can’t understand how big a phenomenon he was at the time.

What an absolute shame. As a Bears fan growing up in Austin I thought Benson had the potential to be my favorite player ever. He didn’t even make it to 40. 

One slight error in the story. The location it happened, RM 2222 at the 5600 block of Mount Bonnell Road, is in west Austin, not east. That it happened there doesn’t surprise me. It’s a fun road to drive because of the turns on it but it’s also very dangerous because of the ups and down and turns. I HATE pulling out…

I can’t wait to be old enough and hammered enough in a bar at 2:30 in the afternoon that a punch to the head from a pro fighter doesn’t even phase me. A young, drunk buck would have tried to retaliate. This grizzled old man doesn’t even give McGregor the satisfaction of being preturbed.

Refusing a free shot of whiskey is the LEAST Irish thing ever.