Le’Veon Bell Reacted To The Steelers’ Tie With The Browns On Twitter

The Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns played to a 21-21 tie on Sunday as the National Football League season started in earnest, and the narrative for the AFC North showdown was certainly interesting.

The Steelers have high hopes this season but started it without starting running back Le’Veon Bell, who is currently in a contract dispute with the team. That left the Steelers starting James Conner in his place. Some of Bell’s Steelers teammates criticized the holdout when they learned that he would not return to the team, while Antonio Brown made a point to publicly support him before the team’s first game.

Bell lost out on his Week 1 paycheck — about $850,000 — for not showing up in time to make the trip to Cleveland with the Browns. What resulted was a very strange game between the Steelers and a team trying to get a win for the first time in more than a year. After the tie, however, Bell posted on Twitter a very curious emoji that got plenty of folks excited.

Twitter kinda went nuts about it after they saw the tweet, with some obviously assuming that Bell was throwing shade at his team. But Bell quickly retweeted one of those tweets and clarified, saying he had just never seen a tie before.

Ties are rare, sure, but not uncommon enough to be able to claim that they’d never seen one before. Conner, for what it’s worth, played well on Sunday. He finished with 135 yards and two touchdowns on 31 carries. So perhaps Bell would not have made the difference in the game. But his absence continues to loom large, especially if the Steelers continue to get less-than desirable results on the field.

As for the Steelers, they’re just tired of answering Bell questions, even if they’d love to have him on the field with them.