Former NFL star Antonio Brown slammed the media as ‘crazy’ when he took to the stage on behalf of Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday but saved special treatment for Kamala Harris’ running mate.
Tim Walz is known as ‘coach’ around the Harris campaign for his years as a high school football and basketball coach.
‘He isn’t a real football coach,’ said Brown, who made his name as a spectacular wide receiver with the Pittsburgh Steelers. ‘He couldn’t guard me.’
Brown wore a MAGA hat as he took the stage ahead of Trump’s appearance in front of thousands of fans at an airport in Latrobe, about an hour’s drive from Pittsburgh.
Former NFL star Antonio Brown slammed the media as ‘crazy’ when he took to the stage on behalf of Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday
Former Pittsburgh Steelers players Antonio Brown, left, and Le’Veon Bell, right, are seen on stage as Brown spoke in support of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, during a campaign rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania
And he likened his own rise against the odds as a lowly sixth round draft pick to Trump’s unlikely emergence as president.
But before he set out the case for electing Trump in November (and stumped for a crypto coin) the star had a message for reporters at the event.
‘I know the media is going to call me crazy… Trump crazy for having me speak here,’ said a man who once made as many headlines for his bizarre behavior as he did his exploits on the field.
‘But I want to make this clear. We are not. They are.’
Former NFL star Antonio Brown speaks during Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again Rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania
Brown gestures while on stage during the rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday afternoon
Brown was one of the best players in his position during the 2010s. But the end of his career is remembered for the way he was traded to the Oakland Raiders but left before playing a game and then clashed with leadership at his next two teams
Brown was one of the best players in his position during the 2010s.
But the end of his career is remembered for the way he was traded to the Oakland Raiders but left before playing a game and then clashed with leadership at his next two teams, being cut after winning the Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but later stripping of his uniform and leaving the field during a game against the New York Jets.
However, in Pittsburgh he remains a record breaking star who delivered explosive plays.
Trump is all in on Pennsylvania this weekend.
On Sunday he mans a McDonald’s fry station near Philadelphia, holds a town hall in Lancaster, and will attend the Pittsburgh Steelers game in the evening.
Of the seven battlegrounds, Pennsylvania is the most consequential.
The state is likely to provide the tipping point in the election. Its 19 electoral college votes could take one candidate or the other past the threshold for victory on Nov. 5.
To win, Trump needs high turn-out in the deep red counties around the blue-collar city of Pittsburgh to counteract Harris’ support in the big urban areas.
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J.L. Partners polled 800 likely voters in Pennsylvania on their voting intention from Oct 5 to Oct 8 using a variety of methods. The results carry a 3.5 percent margin of error
Trump won the state in 2016 by fewer than 70,000 votes. He lost it four years later by a little more.
The latest DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners polled shows that it could not be closer.
If the election were tomorrow, each candidate would win 47 percent of the vote.
Harris was spending Saturday at a get-out-the-vote event in Detroit, Michigan, alongside Michigan-born rapper Lizzo, on the first day of early voter.
Then she was due to travel to Atlanta, Georgia, for a rally with pop singer Usher.
