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Antonio Brown, the story came out a couple days ago that the Steelers were going to trade Antonio Brown.

It was going to happen, and it was going to happen before Friday.

Well, apparently it did, at least if you believe the reports that Antonio Brown, much like a human sacrifice, is being tossed over Niagara Falls.

If you've not been listening, that's a bad job by you.

Shame on you.

And maybe you missed this. But the state

run NFL media reporting

in the late night hours that

the Pittsburgh Steelers are, and

listen closely because this is weasel terminology.

And as a professor

that teaches about weasel words,

this is a weasel phrase

closing in on a deal.

That's what the report was from the rap sheet.

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