On Wednesday, the National Football League fined Brown $11,576 Wednesday for jumping onto and then straddling the goalpost after he ran back a 71-yard punt return touchdown in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 44-10 win over the Indianapolis Colts Sunday night. “(The NFL) didn’t like it too much”.
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Brown had three touchdowns in the game, and his last on special teams was the exclamation point on a 45-10 victory.
After crossing the goal line, Brown jogged toward the goalpost and jumped onto the post’s padding with his arms and legs outstretched, slamming his midsection into the pad.
Brown did a full front flip into the end zone earlier this season and did not draw a flag or a fine.
Jacoby Jones, who fumbled the opening kickoff Sunday against Indianapolis and almost did the same on a punt, has been demoted on the Steelers’ depth chart.
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin was not pleased that his team’s best playmaker subjected himself to injury. “The angle I approached, I couldn’t really see her. I don’t think she got hurt”.
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“I’m sure we’ll rehash it and rehash it 1,000 times in the next six days and suck all the life out of it”, Tomlin said on Tuesday.
