Antonio Brown and Tampa Bay Buccaneers teammate Mike Edwards have each been suspended three games for lying about their vaccination status, according to NFL insider Ian Rapoport.
Brown’s former chef Steven Ruiz was the one who blew the whistle on Brown having a fake vaccination card before the start of the season to get around the NFL’s Covid protocols. Brown’s girlfriend reportedly offered Ruiz $500 to get the card for Brown, but he declined. Ruiz made the allegations after saying Brown owes him $10K for his services.
It was just this week when Brown spoke with Richard Sherman on his podcast about the fake card fiasco and he spoke like a man who was being railroaded, when in fact, he did exactly what the chef alleged.
“You still got to deal with scrutiny, It’s like no matter what the truth actually is, people can make their own narrative and you gotta deal with it,” Sherman said.”
Brown responded with: “That’s the sad part. The country says you’re innocent ’til proven guilty, but you’re guilty ’til you show innocence. Anything someone says, everyone’s already magnifying it.”
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Fast forward to 13:30:
“He got them from another player who was selling them,” said Ruiz, who declined to name the player. “That player came over to the house multiple times. He had to get another copy of Cyd’s vaccine card because they got her birthday wrong on the first one.”
A 3-game suspension is nothing compared to the fact that Brown could be facing federal charges over a fake card. As far as his career goes, he has been sidelines with an ankle injury and is expected to miss a couple more weeks.
Before his injury, he had amassed 418 yards and four touchdowns in six games.
