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Antonio Brown makes grand Raiders camp entrance in hot-air balloon

Chris Pastrick
By Chris Pastrick
2 Min Read July 26, 2019 | 6 years Ago
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I guess you could say he’s comin’ in hot.

Antonio Brown, he of grand training camp entrances, made his Oakland Raiders camp debut Friday in

… drum roll …

a hot-air balloon.

“I thought it’d be exciting to switch it up. Napa Valley, obviously, is known for the hot air balloons,” Brown says in a video posted to Twitter.

Last year, his last with the Pittsburgh Steelers, the wide receiver flew into camp at Saint Vincent College in Unity in a helicopter. In the years before that, Brown arrived several custom painted Rolls-Royces.

“There’s a lot at stake,” Brown says in the new video. “We kinda gotta develop our identity. I think it all starts today. With the commitment guys there, and everyone there, understanding the reason we there and why they putting their hand in the pile. And make the Raiders great again.”

“Raider Nation, I’m here, Napa,” he said. “It’s time to get to work, baby. Float like a butterfly, sting like AB.”

Good luck, Oakland.

Needless to say, the Twittersphere had some great reactions.

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Chris Pastrick is a TribLive digital producer. An Allegheny County native, he began working for the Valley News Dispatch in 1993 and joined the Trib in 1997. He can be reached at cpastrick@triblive.com.

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