Antonio Brown's Biographhy

Before Brown was a standout receiver at Central Michigan University, the Florida native was a teenager who grew up in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami. Liberty City can be described as a lot of things; people from the neighborhood itself will describe it as “rough,” and that’s exactly what Brown says his teenage years were. One would imagine that even the average life in Liberty City would be far from settled, but Brown’s, at least at one point, seemed even worse than that.
The Steelers star is the son of “Touchdown” Eddie Brown, a former Arena Football League player. Eddie Brown was voted the league’s greatest player ever, even ahead of Kurt Warner. But Dad wasn’t around during Antonio’s teenage years. Instead, the younger Brown lived with his mother. That is, until she remarried, at which point Antonio was thrown out of the house for a reason that is never (or at least seldom) specified when Brown tells his story publicly.

The bottom line, though? Antonio Brown was homeless for around six months during his senior year of high school, he told the Detroit Free Press.
College Following high school, Brown was denied the chance to play college football at Florida State because of academic reasons. He instead went to North Carolina Tech, a prep school were he could play out another year while waiting to retake the SAT. It was at NC Tech that he started getting recruited by a receivers coach at West Virginia. When said coach left WVU for Central Michigan, Brown followed. He was so impressive as a walk-on there, that he was offered a scholarship just a short time into his first season. For the next years, he proceeded to be impressive, to the point that he became a legitimate NFL prospect. The rest, as they say, is history: