The Nationwide Enviornment League kicked the Albany Empire out of the league Thursday next crew proprietor Antonio Brown did not pay both a required price or a high quality he gained next fresh crowd feedback.
“After exhausting all avenues, the NAL board of owners have decided unanimously to terminate the membership agreement of the Albany Empire,” the league stated in a loose. “The decision was reached after an emergency conference call of the members in good standing to discuss the Empire’s failure to pay their league mandated and overdue assessments.”
Brown become the bulk proprietor of the upstate Unused York crew in April. Beneath phrases of league possession, all groups are required to pay one-seventh of the NAL working finances by way of per month transactions. The league stated Brown made the April cost however didn’t pay the Might 15 installment or a $1,000 high quality for behavior destructive to the league. Brown additionally challenged the April cost, which used to be credited again to him.
The NAL stated the crew accountant knowledgeable officers “that it didn’t seem like Mr. Brown was going to pay the assessment or fine,” chief to the extremity convention name.
The club gave the Empire till midday ET Thursday to create the cost. Once they didn’t pay, the NAL canceled the crew’s Saturday house recreation in opposition to the Jacksonville Sharks, and it’ll regulate the extra of the league’s 2023 regular-season agenda with out the Albany squad.
Since Brown purchased the Empire, the crew has been thru more than one coaches, and each quarterbacks at the roster have been spared next ultimate weekend’s loss to the Orlando Predators that dropped Albany to 1-6.
Brown, a former NFL All-Professional vast receiver, had vowed to play games for the Empire however had but to take action. He practiced Wednesday and stuck passes from quarterback Dalton Cole — who performed at Section III Brevard School and performed for the Sharks for a shorten hour — ahead of giving an interview during which he wondered whether or not “AB” used to be taking to pay him. (He has said within the generation that AB the landlord and Antonio Brown the participant are other population.)
Brown’s father, Eddie Brown, used to be a legend within the former Enviornment Soccer League and starred for the Albany Firebirds.
Reuters contributed to this record.
