{"id":944550,"date":"2026-07-13T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/944550\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:00:17","slug":"antonio-browns-infamous-facebook-live-video-cursed-the-steelers-in-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/944550\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Brown’s infamous Facebook Live video cursed the Steelers in the playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 12, 2026, 7:24 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

On January 15, 2017, the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs on the strength of six Chris Boswell field goals. It was a massive road win and sent the Steelers to the AFC title game against the New England Patriots.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs win would mark the last time the Steelers won a playoff game and if you believe in curses, the infamous Facebook Live video former Steeler Antonio Brown<\/a> did postgame in the locker room. Brown did it as part of a brand deal with Facebook and even livestreamed during former head coach Mike Tomlin’s postgame speech, although it was clear Tomlin had no idea.<\/p>\n

In case you missed it, you can check it out here in all its glory.<\/p>\n

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Brown was not disciplined for this violation of team rules and when he was asked, played it off like he didn’t even know it happened.<\/p>\n

The next week, this confident group headed to New England and were promptly blown out by Tom Brady at the Patriots, 36-17. Including this loss, the Steelers have dropped seven straight playoff games.<\/p>\n

Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a>\"\"\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 12, 2026, 7:24 p.m. ET On January 15, 2017, the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Kansas City Chiefs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[95878,7,6,84,119737,96718,96719,95882,95887,101481,95893,96082,97638,95896,95888,95895,96760,95899,118065,96720,95883,95881],"class_list":["post-944550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl-playoffs","tag-accessfree","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-playoffs","tag-sourcesteelers-wire","tag-sstssportsnflsteelers","tag-sstsnsteelers","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagamerican-football-conference","tag-tagchris-boswell","tag-tagfacebook","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-tagmike-tomlin","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagonline-video","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagpittsburgh-connect","tag-tagpittsburgh-steelers","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}