The National Arena League tenure for former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown with the Albany Empire was a very messy, short one.
Whether it was players and coaches leaving due to a failure to be paid for games played, or Brown’s reported debut on the field with the team being delayed and then canceled altogether because he didn’t fill out the necessary paperwork, his tenure as owner of the Empire — the franchise his father was a star for in the 1990s — was a colossal failure.
Brown eventually had to fold the Empire after the franchise was kicked out of the NAL due to unpaid fees, including a $1,000 fine to Brown for conduct detrimental to the league.