Antonio Brown's Facebook Live stream may have done more than earn him a stern talking-to from Mike Tomlin. It may have cost him some money.
According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, Brown might be fined for violating the league's social-media policy. Enacted in 2009, the policy states that players, coaches and football operations personnel are banned from using social media on game days 90 minutes before kickoff, during games, and before "traditional media interviews."
Brown's live stream of the Steelers' postgame celebration Saturday night in Kansas City would certainly qualify as before "traditional media interviews." In fact, he started shooting before Tomlin even began his postgame address to players.
That Brown caught Tomlin calling the Patriots "a**holes" prompted questions directed at Tom Brady and Bill Belichick during their respective interviews on WEEI Monday. Their responses were predictable.