Oakland Raiders: A timeline of the Antonio Brown experience
March 9, 2019: Antonio Brown is traded to Oakland
Two days later, it happened.
The Pittsburgh Steelers traded Antonio Brown to the Oakland Raiders for a 2019 third-round draft pick and a 2019 fifth-round pick. To display his pleasure, Brown tweeted a slick photoshopped picture of him in a Raiders uniform.
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For an absolute pittance of a trade package, the much-maligned receiver had finally found a new home in Oakland, and he even seemed happy. Jon Gruden, Derek Carr, and Raider Nation rejoiced. For now.
July 7, 2019: Antonio Brown gets frostbitten feet in a cryotherapy mishap
Brown, while vacationing in Paris, hopped into a cryotherapy chamber after a workout. Without wearing proper footwear, Brown exposed his feet to temperatures 100 degrees below zero.
That, as you can probably imagine, shouldn’t happen.
Brown’s feet — if you haven’t seen the absolutely scarring footage from HBO’s “Hard Knocks” — turned into blistered, peeling stumps, preventing him from practicing at the start of training camp.
The injury, as bizarre as it was, belongs perfectly in Antonio Brown’s Twilight Zone-like life.