Antonio Brown Was A Hippo On the First Episode Of ‘The Masked Singer’

Perhaps Antonio Brown’s current drama with the Pittsburgh Steelers is all a ruse to help a hippo get some play on Fox Broadcast Network. The Steelers wideout, who apparently skipped a must-win game in order for the Steelers to make the playoffs, is playing out an interpersonal issue with his teammates that may put him on a new team come the start of the 2019 regular season.

Brown is currently embattled in a weird conflict with the Steelers, and he reportedly has requested a trade out of Pittsburgh. But Brown is also making a splash of another sort on Thursday, giving viewers at home a surprise when he showed up as the first unveiled participant on the Fox singing show ‘The Masked Singer.’

The show, if you are unaware, has masked singers competing on a reality show where eventually we will learn who is actually singing the songs we are hearing. This is the video the hippo character, later revealed to be Brown, taped before the his performance.

Here is Brown, as a hip hop hippo, eating pancakes in a diner.

“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day for a competitor like me,” the hippo said with a voice modulator on. The clues are supposed to allude to the fact that he’s a football player. The hippo says that he’s used to performing in front of thousands of people, and that he has to dance when good things happen, even if he gets in trouble for it.

When it came time to perform, the masked hippo performed a cover of Bobby Brown’s ‘My Prerogative.’

The performance and clues seem to have stumped the judges, who had no idea it would be Brown emerging from under the foam mascot head when everything was said and done.

So there you have it. Brown can sing, and pretty well at that. We’re learning a lot about Brown these days, aren’t we?