Football

Angleae

(4,640 posts) Thu Mar 31, 2022, 06:58 PM Mar 2022

Antonio Brown refuses to have ankle healed until a team signs him.

Antonio Brown badly wants to play in the NFL again, but the former Tampa Bay Bucs star wide receiver says he'll only have surgery to repair his busted ankle if an NFL team commits to signing him.

https://www.tmz.com/2022/03/31/antonio-brown-surgery-injured-ankle-nfl-team-sign-contract/

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Antonio Brown refuses to have ankle healed until a team signs him. (Original Post) Angleae Mar 2022 OP

Now, how could that backfire? Like a team decides it is too risky to assume his ankle will be hlthe2b Mar 2022 #1

AB seriously needs help nycbos Mar 2022 #2

Let him hobble into oblivion then Blue Owl Mar 2022 #3

He's walking around on a bad ankle? underpants Mar 2022 #4

Nobody is signing an unreliable nutjob with a bum ankle who can pass a physical. RockRaven Mar 2022 #5

A broken ankle is painful and if surgery is not done soon, it is a bad situation. Irish_Dem Mar 2022 #6

And they take a long time to fully heal greatauntoftriplets Mar 2022 #11

Yes it takes time to heal. Irish_Dem Mar 2022 #12

There's a man who maybe played too many games sans helmet.... lastlib Mar 2022 #7

Vontaze Burfict cheap shot to the head exboyfil Mar 2022 #9

I had never seen that before. lastlib Mar 2022 #13

That'll teach 'em when I can't run very well. keithbvadu2 Mar 2022 #8

I fractured my ankle in Npvember of 2020. greatauntoftriplets Mar 2022 #10

So he only uses his ankle for football? milestogo Apr 2022 #14

hlthe2b

(106,340 posts)

1. Now, how could that backfire? Like a team decides it is too risky to assume his ankle will be

Reply to Angleae (Original post)

Thu Mar 31, 2022, 07:03 PM

Mar 2022

fully functional again or at least in time to get any use out of his play? If I were an owner that is what I'd be thinking and if I were going to sign him, it would only be at bargain-basement salary, given the risks.

Is this guy nuts?

nycbos

(6,345 posts)

2. AB seriously needs help

Reply to Angleae (Original post)

Thu Mar 31, 2022, 07:05 PM

Mar 2022

Blue Owl

(54,734 posts)

3. Let him hobble into oblivion then

Reply to Angleae (Original post)

Thu Mar 31, 2022, 07:10 PM

Mar 2022

underpants

(186,638 posts)

4. He's walking around on a bad ankle?

Reply to Angleae (Original post)

Thu Mar 31, 2022, 07:12 PM

Mar 2022

I guess he isn’t in any pain. He’s president of Kanye’s sports line of clothes.

RockRaven

(16,270 posts)

5. Nobody is signing an unreliable nutjob with a bum ankle who can pass a physical.

Reply to Angleae (Original post)

Thu Mar 31, 2022, 07:20 PM

Mar 2022

Nutjob? Yes. Bum ankle? Maybe. Both? No way.

Irish_Dem

(57,435 posts)

6. A broken ankle is painful and if surgery is not done soon, it is a bad situation.

Reply to Angleae (Original post)

Thu Mar 31, 2022, 07:37 PM

Mar 2022

When a broken bone has healed incorrectly, you don't want to know what the surgeon has to do to fix it.

(I know personally as I broke my leg and ankle at the beginning of the covid pandemic 2 years ago, when most of the surgical centers were closed. Surgeons and ER docs let me what would happen if I didn't get surgery repair in a timely fashion.)

This guy is an idiot.

greatauntoftriplets

(176,840 posts)

11. And they take a long time to fully heal

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #6)

Thu Mar 31, 2022, 09:11 PM

Mar 2022

Mine from 11/2020 is still improving. Yes, I had surgery.

Irish_Dem

(57,435 posts)

12. Yes it takes time to heal.

Reply to greatauntoftriplets (Reply #11)

Thu Mar 31, 2022, 09:59 PM

Mar 2022

I had a really good surgeon, rods and pins holding the bones together.
And really strenuous physical therapy.

I can walk fine. But if a football player has to squat down and get back up, this could take awhile to do it without pain. I still cannot do it even with all the PT.