Antonio Brown's Steeler stardom the product of rare work ethic

[stillers4me]

The printing is neat. Block letters, evenly spaced, written with a mechanical pencil so nothing is missed while sharpening a yellow No. 2.

Antonio Brown (http://www.nfl.com/player/antoniobrown/2508061/profile)'s penmanship fills six of these spiral notebooks, one for every year he's been in the NFL. They all have black covers, all are packed with detailed precision. Routes, checks, the opponent's tendencies in every situation Pittsburgh Steelers (http://www.nfl.com/teams/pittsburghsteelers/profile?team=PIT) offensive coordinator Todd Haley can imagine. Brown draws arrows. He records asides Haley utters. And then he goes back, every night, marking specific sections in bright yellow highlighter.


"He's like a ninja back there," fellow receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey (http://www.nfl.com/player/darriusheyward-bey/80427/profile) said, pantomiming super-quick pen to paper.


"He's always writing," Martavis Bryant (http://www.nfl.com/player/martavisbryant/2543572/profile), another fellow receiver, said.


"If you write it down," Brown said, "you've got a memory."


This is the Brown the Steelers (http://www.nfl.com/teams/pittsburghsteelers/profile?team=PIT) know...............

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[salamander]

"He's like a ninja back there." :chuckle:

[stillers4me]

This is why I have no problem with AB's celebrations. He's earned them.

[tube517]

Diva. :chuckle:

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[lipps83]

I wonder if he still signs everything a fan will send him like he used to? When he said that, and did it is was just another one of those things that won me over with him even more. Like when he hung out with a fan during Super Bowl week.

I would imagine his stardom now brings him truck fulls of things to sign. I can't imagine he has the time to do so now.

I don't care if he drops 30 passes in the Super Bowl and doesn't catch a single one. I won't knock this man.

[polamalubeast]

At its peak, Brown is already the best WR in Steelers history, but if he stays with the the Steelers after his contract ended and he continues to perform like that, he will be easily the best WR in steelers history, even if he not win a SB and he will be in HOF.

[fansince'76]

"He's like a ninja back there." :chuckle:

Or a Jedi...

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xvmivhnp--/c_fit,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/fkcl8g7uvlgacuftjhh8.gif

https://media.giphy.com/media/zIkViAEG5hRYs/giphy.gif

:chuckle:

[fansince'76]

In all seriousness, I've heard more than once that the Steelers need to offer Bryant a "lifetime contract," when it's AB who should really be getting one, IMO.

[Hawkman]

In all seriousness, I've heard more than once that the Steelers need to offer Bryant a "lifetime contract," when it's AB who should really be getting one, IMO.

Completely agree!

[86WARD]

In all seriousness, I've heard more than once that the Steelers need to offer Bryant a "lifetime contract," when it's AB who should really be getting one, IMO.

No doubt! I'd love to see those notebooks.

[Psycho Ward 86]

yall remember when people on this board were slighting Antonio Brown and talking about him as if he's expendable in the offseason because of his contract + drafting Sammie Coates? Pepperidge Farm remembers