{"id":25695,"date":"2023-06-15T21:34:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=25695"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:34:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:34:45","slug":"albany-empire-kicked-out-of-the-national-arena-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=25695","title":{"rendered":"Albany Empire kicked out of the National Arena League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The Albany Empire has been kicked out of the National Arena League.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken unanimously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalarenaleague.com\/news\/albany-empire-fail-to-meet-league-obligations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Arena League Board of Owners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision was made following an emergency conference call of members in good standing to discuss Empire&#8217;s failure to pay its league&#8217;s due and owed assessments,&#8221; the board said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The team has been in a lot of turmoil since former NFL player Antonio Brown took over the team earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>That means this Saturday&#8217;s home game, and the rest of the Empire&#8217;s season, is off.<\/p>\n<p>MVP Arena released a statement saying individual and season ticket holders will be refunded for the remaining three home games.<\/p>\n<h5>Antonio Brown speaks with NewsChannel 13 (File \/ WNYT)<\/h5>\n<p>Brown, a former NFL star, practiced with his team on Wednesday.  He said he planned to play Saturday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>For related stories:<\/strong> Empire of Antonio Brown Albany<br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/big-board-sports\/albany-empire-kicked-out-of-national-arena-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albany Empire has been kicked out of the National Arena League. The decision was taken unanimously National Arena League Board of Owners. &#8220;The decision was made following an emergency conference call of members in good standing to discuss Empire&#8217;s failure to pay its league&#8217;s due and owed assessments,&#8221; the board said in a statement. The team has been in a lot of turmoil since former NFL player Antonio Brown took over the team earlier this year. That means this Saturday&#8217;s home game, and the rest of the Empire&#8217;s season, is off. MVP Arena released a statement saying individual and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25697,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25695\/revisions\/25697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}