Antonio Brown Was Arrested in Dubai and is Being Extradited Back to the US on Attempted Murder Charges

I never had a very high opinion of Antonio Brown when he was doing anything other than running routes and catching passes. This may be an unpopular opinion, but when it came to all other forms of human interaction, I found him to be somewhat lacking. And his behavior can be somewhat off-putting. Harsh words, I know. And shocking to hear. But those are just my personal feelings toward the man. 

That said, my problems with him have been that I always considered him to be a high-maintenance, narcissistic, team-killing diva. As well as a total ingrate to the superstar athlete who was willing to let him move into his family home, twice. To resurrect Brown's football career. Throw him a touchdown pass in a Super Bowl and win him a ring. 

And this video above was the thanks Tom Brady got. A long with a hundred or so social media post suggesting the GOAT's ex-wife was taking Brown to the summit of Bone Mountain. Which is despicable behavior, even by the low bar Brown had already set. 

But even with my rock-bottom opinion of the man, I never in my wildest dreams thought this is where his life would end up:

That was in mid-June, and stemmed from this incident:

Since then, Brown has been on the lam. Without the wits and resourcefulness of a Dr. Richard Kimball to evade capture:

But probably with the money to keep from getting caught for a while. If he was lucky. Well his luck just ran out:

Source -  Antonio Brown is under arrest and back in the United States … about six months after the former NFL superstar was accused of trying to shoot and kill a man at an Adin Ross boxing event in Florida.

                   

TMZ Sports is told 37-year-old AB was extradited this week, with United Arab Emirates authorities shipping the retired wideout back to the States from Dubai, where he was allegedly attempting to evade the reach of the American legal system.

                   

We're told Brown was accompanied by federal agents to the New York Metropolitan Area, where he was turned over to local police. He is scheduled to be sent back to South Florida, where the incident went down.

AB will likely be held at the Miami-Dade Department of Corrections and charged with one count of attempted second-degree murder with a deadly weapon.

Allow me a few disclaimers. Presumption of innocence. Entitled to his day in court. Legally not guilty until proven in a court of law. Entitled to due process. Let the legal proceedings play out. No rush to judgment. 

OK, with that out of the way, let me point out that Brown has been out of football since he pulled that Ned Braden strip tease in 2021. And yet he's still only 37. Which is old by NFL wideout standards, but still younger that Jerry Rice, Terrell Owens, Tim Brown and Larry Fitzgerald (among others) were when they finally retired. At the very least, he could've played a couple of more years and would be waiting on his Hall of Fame eligibility to come up, instead of being hauled off to the Stony Lonesome in Miami-Dade waiting on a bail hearing. 

I supposed given recent events, I should be charitable and talk more about mental health than just point out how Brown squandered so much talent by just being an ignoramus. But it's hard to. He was given so much. Just gifted by the gods with this superhuman ability to catch footballs. And to whom much is given, much should be expected. Instead of being great at what he could do and conducting himself the bare minimum of normal adult behavior, he's being hauled into custody halfway around the world and being dragged back to face justice on charges he tried - and failed - to murder someone. The fact he was good at football a bunch of years ago couldn't be less relevant now.