And, as Jalen Ramsey so threateningly put it, the "war" on reporters continues. Appointing one who has been on the Steelers' beat since before Terry Bradshaw's hairline was beyond repair to be the court jester of training camp seems a bit odd, but such is the result of athletes projecting their daily frustrations on those with which the general public is most likely to pile on. I wasn't there, so I have absolutely no idea if Antonio Brown had a little hitch in his giddy-up as he prematurely left practice for a period of time, but I have hard time believing that an elderly journalist maniacally manufactured some limp so that his mentions would turn into a mosh pit of bipolar maniacs overreacting to a matter-of-fact update. Given his flare for the dramatic, there's a chance that Antonio Brown's exaggerated pimp walk was misinterpreted as a side effect of his groin strain from Saturday by a reporter who definitely has a hard time understanding kids these day, but "making shit up" he was not. I'd imagine training camp is also a grind for the people covering it. Obviously it's not as physically or mentally as taxing as it is for the players, but does anyone - outside of AB, apparently - really believe that a 60-something year old member of the media intentionally made himself the target of the most terrible of towels during the dog days of summer by lying about the health of team's star wide receiver? Seeing as he's seated at the head of the 'Sports' section for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, as opposed to across from Skip Bayless, I see a lot more value in him reporting on what he saw than him compromising his journalistic credibility for some hate clicks. Antonio Brown can paint him in a red nose if he wants, but Ed Bouchette only tweeted about a limp because he saw a limp. That might mean he needs to see an optometrist, but it doesn't mean he needs to be hooked up to a polygraph.
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