If you don't know what Antonio Brown did during his game on Sun, Jan 2nd, I don't know if you have been living under a rock or not. While talking to Mike Evans (Fellow Bucs star receiver), AB took his jersey off, threw it into the crowd, then proceeded to take his undershirt off and throw that into the crowd too. The Bucs immediately released Antonio and he is now a free agent. You might think, "Oh it's just a one-time thing though." In the case of Antonio Brown, it isn't.
This might not be AB's fault though. It comes down to one fateful game in the 2015 playoffs. AB was running a slant when he missed the ball and Bufict made the dirtiest of his dirty hits ever. AB was knocked out before he hit the ground and that one hit could've been the last straw over giving AB CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy).
Before that hit, AB had one offense against the league, and that was his famous (and hilarious) kicking the punter in the face moment.
Ab forgot most about that game and didn't have a track record after it. There was one person who never forgot that game in which Vontaze Burfict knocked out AB. That person was Juju Smith-Schuster. When they met up in 2017, Juju came across the field and decked Burfict for revenge. This big hit knocked out Burfict and got Smith-Schuster suspended. After the game, Juju said he was "proud" of himself for knocking out Burfict.
More news appeared after the Jets vs Bucs game saying that HC Bruce Arians and AB were bickering on the sideline and AB had had enough. Still, these actions were not acceptable and AB was released.
Link to Burfict hit shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8iFSP_S5h8
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