Unusual issues have surrounded All-Pro wide receiver Antonio Brown over the last month.
From suffering frostbite after failing to wear proper footwear during cryotherapy, to pursuing two grievances over a helmet policy that his union negotiated for players’ safety, to arguing with Oakland Raiders general manager Mike Mayock and posting on Instagram a photo of a letter from Mayock about Brown’s fines, to recording a phone conversation with Raiders coach Jon Gruden and publishing the recording on YouTube, to his abrupt Raiders release and to his seemingly instantaneous signing with the New England Patriots, the 31-year-old native of Miami has attracted a mixture of scorn, shock and surprise.