Twitter wars seemingly have taken over the NFL offseason headlines as of late, and it’s largely due to a brewing rivalry between Oakland Raiders large receiver Antonio Brown and his former Pittsburgh Steeler teammate, Juju Smith-Schuster.
It’s tough to essentially pinpoint the place this social media debacle originated, however March 10, 2019 looks as if place to begin.
Smith-Schuster tweeted out a photograph of himself catching a landing go towards the Raiders with Brown trying on within the background, shortly after Pittsburgh dealt the all-pro receiver to the AFC West.
The petty sparks actually began to fly Tuesday afternoon when Brown tweeted, “Keep your feelings off the web.”
Less than two hours later, Brown was doing simply the alternative, replying to a Steelers fan who reminded him that Smith-Schuster was the workforce’s 2018 MVP. The Raiders receiver referred to as out Smith-Schuster for his expensive fumble in Pittsburgh’s Week 16 loss to the New Orleans Saints.
Don’t neglect, although: He’s completely not mad. He retains his feelings off the web.
Smith-Schuster didn’t take lengthy to answer, sending old style, not-so-subtle subtweet lower than one hour later, mimicking Brown’s message from earlier within the afternoon.
He rapidly adopted this up with a fairly honest message, questioning why Brown was coming at him on social media.
So what did Brown do subsequent? He did what any wise particular person within the midst of a Twitter battle would do: take the feud to Instagram. But what he did there was a fairly poor choice on his half.
Check out his most up-to-date Juju-related publish.
What did Brown assume this publish was going to perform? Smith-Schuster was a school receiver asking for recommendation in a good method. There’s… nothing incorrect with that.
So, simply so we’ve this straight, Brown calls out Smith-Schuster for blowing the Steelers’ playoff probabilities, Smith-Schuster replies by saying all he has ever completed is respect him, after which Brown decides to tug out an Instagram message Smith-Schuster despatched him 4 years in the past?
AB pulling out this message virtually 4 years later makes him look fairly dangerous when you ask us.
Score one for workforce Juju.
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