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

[Angleae]

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/

[hlthe2b]

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

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]

2. AB seriously needs help

[Blue Owl]

3. Let him hobble into oblivion then

[underpants]

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

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

[RockRaven]

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

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

[Irish_Dem]

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

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]

11. And they take a long time to fully heal

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

[Irish_Dem]

12. Yes it takes time to heal.

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.

[lastlib]

7. There's a man who maybe played too many games sans helmet....

sarcasm aside, that guy needs help!

[exboyfil]

9. Vontaze Burfict cheap shot to the head

He was a little flaky before. Since then he has been insane.

[lastlib]

13. I had never seen that before.

How did that guy not break AB's neck??

[keithbvadu2]

8. That'll teach 'em when I can't run very well.

That'll teach 'em when I can't run very well.

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. I fractured my ankle in Npvember of 2020.

They did fusion surgery on it. It will never be quite the same, but it improves all the time.

Brown needs to have his head examined, too.

[milestogo]

14. So he only uses his ankle for football?