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It’s safe to assume most NFL fans are aware of the long, strange trip Antonio Brown has taken through life over the past few years (a string of borderline inexplicable behavior many armchair doctors have linked to a concussion he suffered after taking a hit to the head during a game in 2016).
However, if you don’t count yourself among that group, there’s no better way to get up to speed than taking a glance at one of the most simultaneously entertaining and disheartening posts Reddit has to offer; one chronicling the “misadventures” of the wide receiver who has engaged in a string of odd behavior that includes:
- Killing piranhas inside of an aquarium in his home and refusing to pay the person who installed it
- Claiming a private chef threatened him by putting a fish head in his freezer (which was actually being saved to make a stock)
- Trying to get another private chef to obtain a fake vaccination card so he could play in the NFL
- Asking someone on Twitter to do his homework for him after briefly enrolling in college
Those are only the tip of the iceberg, and now, Brown has once again found himself dominating headlines in recent weeks thanks to a new string of incidents ranging from odd to disturbing—including his decision to expose himself at a public pool in Dubai and allegedly stealing close to $125,000 worth of jewelry while there.
Now, we’ve been treated to yet another twist courtesy of a lawsuit that was filed last week.
Antonio Brown is being sued after being accused of orchestrating a scam involving Lil Wayne and a fake Richard Mille watch
According to All Hip Hop, the wide receiver has been painted as Mr. Big Crimes in a lawsuit filed in Florida where he was named as the defendant after Secure the Bag Entertainment accused him of scamming the company out of around $500,000.
In the filing, the wideout is accused of charging STB owner Ryan Kane $160,000 for a Richard Mille watch that was later determined to be fake. He also not only refused to reimburse the company for around $178,000 in supposedly fraudulent expenses related to recording sessions for his burgeoning hip-hop career but posted a series of what are described as “defamatory statements” online after he was asked to fork over the cash.
But wait! There’s more!
Kane and STB also gave Brown a $150,000 advance in connection to a planned music video for a song he recorded with Lil Wayne. However, that fell apart after the aspiring rapper demanded a $250,000 check on behalf of the slightly more established rapper, which Kane initially agreed to send to Brown but voided after realizing there was a very good chance he would not be receiving a return on that particular investment.
Based on what we know about AB, that was probably a good call.
On Monday afternoon, Brown posted a picture of the check in question accompanied by some sort of message I’m unable to interpret because I’m not a codebreaker who has worked at the NSA for three decades (and even if I was, I’m not sure I’d be able to get to the bottom of it).