This Video of Antonio Brown's Furniture Getting Tossed in a Pool from 14 Floors Would've Been a Great Look for the Patriots
Source – Antonio Brown is facing more legal troubles after newly surfaced video captured what, attorneys claimed, is furniture falling in the pool area of a luxury Sunny Isles Beach condo tossed by the embattled NFL star.
The surveillance footage captures item after item falling to the oceanfront pool of The Mansions at Acqualina along Collins Avenue, near 177th Street, back on April 24, 2018.
Families and sunbathers, including a young boy, were seen in the pool area as the items began to drop feet away from them. Some of them could be seen looking up before they fled from the falling objects.
Among the people out by the pool that day was a 22-month-old boy.
No one, however, was hurt.
George A. Minski, the attorney who represents Acqualina 1402 LLC, the company that owns the 47-story hotel and condo, addressed the lawsuit he has filed against Brown in a phone interview, Monday.
“You see the furniture landing in the pool, landing in the pool deck, people scrambling,” he said.
Minski contends Brown, a Miami native, threw those expensive items while trashing the unit he had rented.
Antonio Brown doing a war reenactment of the carpet bombing of Toyko is by no means a new story. Supposedly he’d settled the matter with Acqualina’s owner back in the Spring, the way responsible, contrite people do when they want to make amends for their actions: By making it rain (dollars this time) and releasing a Twitter statement that was written directly from his heart, and not at all by super articulate lawyers:
“The legal dispute between Ophir Sternberg and me has been resolved, with a confidential sum of funds being donated to charity. I am sorry that an incident occurred. I apologize for any statements we made in court filings or otherwise to Mr. Sternberg and family. I with Mr. Sternberg my best with regard to future endeavors and through this settlement, seek to make amends with Mr. Sternberg and family.”
If true, why he was back in court on the same case yesterday is beyond me. All I know is that he looked damned good doing it.
Judges love it when the defendant in a lawsuit takes the time to put on his best branded track suit jacket and ripped skinny jeans while taking selfie videos for the Gram as they enter the building. It’s exactly the sort of decorum that shows the proper reverence for the legal system, and they appreciate it. So good job by his legal team on that one.
I also know that in the NFL, video is a total game changer. You can be accused of trying to blow up the White House like the villain in a Gerard Butler movie. But if there’s no video, the league will do everything it can to keep you on the field. But get caught on camera shoplifting a Hostess apple pie at a gas station and you’ve brought disgrace to the Shield. And after reviewing the play where you rained comfortable, tastefully furnished hellfire down upon the heads of some kids in a luxury apartment complex, the ruling on the field would be confirmed: That you’re an assmoron who needs to be suspended, forthwith.
But what I know most – and what is really the only thing that matters at this point – is that AB is no longer our problem. Today is the first full day of practice to get ready to face a 3-0 divisional opponent on the road. And no one on the roster is walking into court to face accusations he dropped sofas and ottomans on the heads of toddlers. No one is accused of doing a Jackson Pollock painting on the back of an ex-girlfriend. And no one texted around pictures of the children of an accuser who wasn’t asking for anything from him. They’re too busy getting ready for Buffalo. And all is right with the world.
The Manufactured Crisis of the Week around here is the rumor that Mr. Kraft gave Brown his pink slip against Belichick’s wishes. And that Tom Brady is furious about it because they took his weapon away. And that everyone is super mopey and spending all day in their rooms with their ear buds in listening to sad music and won’t come down to eat. You know, Situation: Normal.
But regardless of how true it is (and I say it’s 0.1% true at most), I’m on Team Kraft on this one. If you think this egomaniacal manchild would’ve ever straightened up and flown right, you’re delusional. You can’t keep around a grown man who lacks the capacity to avoid easily avoidable situations. To not jizz on someone who doesn’t want to be jizzed on, even if you think she might. To not send a text with someone’s kids, no matter how mad you are. To not toss furniture off balconies, no matter how much fun it sounds. All the Pats asked of Brown was to follow the Dwight Shrute “Don’t Be an Idiot” standard:
And he couldn’t. Bye, Felicia. Now you’re Central Michigan’s problem, not ours.