Antonio Brown Says Vontaze Burfict Apologized for Playoff Hit to Head in Person

December 14, 2016   ·   Joe Pantorno   ·   Jump to comments

It has almost been one year since the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals' penalty and fine-filled AFC Wild Card Game, but the Vontaze Burfict hit on Antonio Brown has come up yet again before the AFC North rivals meet in Week 15. 
This time, though, it's the Steelers receiver who is putting things to bed as he told Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.com on Tuesday that the Bengals linebacker apologized to him in person during the offseason when the two were in Miami: "[He was] just saying he didn't have no intentions of trying to injure, that it was a football move."
During the final moments of Pittsburgh's 18-16 win over the Bengals in January, Burfict delivered a helmet-to-helmet blow that concussed Brown and held him out for the rest of the playoffs. 
Burfict was flagged, which helped set up the Steelers' game-winning field goal, and the NFL suspended him for the first three games of the 2016 season after numerous dangerous hits throughout 2015.
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