Ike and Antonio Brown fight

They came up swinging at each other during a goaline drill at Camp today. Ben threw a pass in the back of the endzone that I thought Ike had the pic, they tussled for the ball, and as they got up they started swinging. Other players broke it up, but when practice was over they went after each other again, this time Ryan Clarke joined in. They were seperated again and Ben and Heath Miller took them to a spot away from everybody else. After talking for about 5 minutes, they hugged and shook hands. All is well.

 

Love the intensity and passion.

 

i think they got in two or three fights one being after practice. It seems there have been a lot of fights this camp i love it

 

I actually believe these same two players were already fighting earlier in camp.

I am not too worried about it, but I think it shows that we will be more intense this year, not only on defense but also on offense. Let's hope the physicality is coming back this year on BOTH sides of the ball!

 

two proud pros. the leader of the cb's and the leader of the wr's. the old vet against the young new star. absolutely it's going to be a battle. i don't think they'd want it any other way. that's steeler football. carry on boys.

 

Ike must be tired of Antonio beating him like a rented mule.
Get up, look up, pray up!

 

I'm notreading anything into this, non-story. This stuff happens on football teams often from high school to the pros. At the end of the day your both brothers, but sometimes brothers fight.

 

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap200000 ... line_stack

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/spo ... or-648771/

Not that it matters, but one says Brown threw the first punch, the other says Taylor went after Brown first, then Brown threw the first punch.

 

I have no problem with fighting. I played basketball with the same team for about 12 years, and there were plenty of fights in practice.

Throwing punches isn't cool though. Neither of those guys better break a hand on someone's helmet.

 

Love this!

 

Personally I thought it was a dumb move on both of their parts. I mean its one thing to have skirmish during practice but to out and out brawl after the practice is very stupid especially given the report said Ike walked off the field with ice on his forehead . Brown must have clocked him in the forehead with the punch he threw. Healthy competition is to be expected and shows fierce competition but this is just plain stupid

 

They've both individually tweeted this morning that they are out at breakfast together and have no problems with each other, they are just intense guys in the heat of the moment. Glad they did this before the media ran with another non-story

 

Yes, but not all 3 fights from the same two players!

 

Save it for Denver.

 

I left practice yesterady prior to this event (fight).

I will say that Antonio Brown stole the show during practice. While his teammates were laying down stretching, he never moved from a standing/stretching position while smiling and staring at the crowd the entire time. He kept on sending a 'ballboy/st vincent student/helper/etc' up into the stands to give the loudest screamer a pair of his gloves or his ballcap. He then began pointing at different sections of the crowd to see which section would cheer the loudest.

I remember, at the time, thinking how cool it was that he was interacting with the crowd and winning over a lot of fans. Determined it was merely a great, positive attitude like that that had him signing a $42-million contract while Mike Wallace's attitude had him sitting in Florida waiting.

After reading about the fight, I wonder if maybe his ego isn't getting away from him a little bit. Now I'm wondering if maybe the new $42-million man is getting a bit cocky. Taking the spotlight during a team stretching excercise to interact with the fans?

I hope he is just a fun-loving, hard-working kid who loves to interact with the Steelers fan base and I hope he doesn't (d)evolve into a diva running his mouth, looking for the cameras, and fighting with his teammates.

 

The first fight...during the Goal line drill....I am not so sure....Ike dove in front of Brown...and looked to have the INT....it was close....they stood up with a gap between them...and Brown turned and went after him.....Maybe Ike said something...but still....

The fight after practice....I could not say...I had just turned my head...when I heard the noise...when I turned back it was being broken up....Troy was in the middle of it..and walked Brown to the other side of the field talking to him.

HACK

 

Ike's a bigger smack talker than even peezy was. Nobody should really be surprised by this, unless it keeps up throughout camp.

 

Tomlin's response to it was pretty entertaining though the reporter might not have thought so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kO4Wal86a8

 

Yeah, I don`t think I have ever seen him actually show anger on camera before...
"What do you want me to do?! Explain it?! It`s an emotional game, played with emotion! I explained it! Next question?"...
That was great! :thumbsup:

 

GOOD < We need the intensity and it can only make both better against players that truly hate them both. GOOD!!!

Luved Coaches response, I've noticed that he has started to come into his own and has dropped many of the cliched answers since his contract extension too.

 

WOW. Have the Rooneys told Tomlin to grow some balls and show some emotion? Or maybe Haley wearing off on him? That was freaking sweeet.

 

I'm glad I wasn't the reporter who asked the "dumb" question! Haven't been yelled at like that since high school.