Ex-NFL GM Tore Up Antonio Brown’s Contract & Nullified Guarantees After Wild Helicopter Incident Former Oakland Raiders GM tore up Antonio Brown's contract and nullified $30 million worth of guarantee

Of all the chaotic chapters in Antonio Brown’s career, none imploded with the speed and spectacle of his brief tenure with the Oakland Raiders. And former general manager Mike Mayock recalled an incident that unraveled everything that went wrong for Brown during his time there.

“When you go to your first training camp as a general manager, and the guy you just signed to a $30 million contract shows up in a helicopter in the Napa Valley with two burned feet from a cryogenic chamber, and wouldn’t wear a helmet and wouldn’t practice. We ended up nullifying his contracts, his guarantees,” Mayock recalled on 94WIP on Friday.

That was only the beginning. Mayock further revealed that the team eventually put everything in writing.

“And finally, we wrote him a letter that basically said, ‘You’