This one was pretty much a no brainer. Antonio Brown was easily the most ridiculous local news story of the year. His "ownership" of The Albany Empire was one of the most comical and frustrating things that has ever happened in The Capital Region, at least in my opinion.

Let's go through a timeline of all the stupid things that happened upon his arrival. 

March 2nd 2023 - Antonio Brown becomes part owner of The Albany Empire

April 6th - Tom Menas is fired as head coach

April 16th - Antonio Brown claims he's 100% owner of the team (that wasn't true....yet)

April 19th - Mike Kwarta sells his share of the team to Antonio Brown for $1

May 1st - Players and coaches claim they hadn't been paid since April 21st. Team President claims that there was an issue with payroll processing.

May 3rd - Tom Menas is back as Empire Head Coach

May 17th - Rehired Head Coach Tom Menas announces that Antonio Brown will suit up for The Albany Empire (he NEVER took the field for the team)

May 21st - Tom Menas resigns as Head Coach

May 22nd - Pete Porcelli is hired as the new Head Coach and then was demoted a week later

June 3rd - Antonio Brown is asked to leave The Holiday Inn Express in Downtown Albany due to complaints (loud music and the smell of marijuana)

June 9th - Brown and John Cheney, a member of the Orlando Predators owner group, exchange insults. Brown calls the NAL a "trash league"

June 15th - The Albany Empire are kicked out of the league. Brown and The Empire failed to pay the mandated league assessments. Brown was also fined $1000 for conduct detrimental to the league.

There were plenty of other things that happened during Brown's time as "owner" of our Empire, from legal issues (lack of child support payment), to showing up at college parties where there were undoubtedly underage kids, a number of Tweets that were insulting and contained hate speech, and so on and so on.

Thankfully we are rid of Antonio Brown or Antonio El Allah (whoever that is) here in The Capital Region. We have a new arena football team, which is actually our original arena football team (The Albany Firebirds) and we have all moved on from the foolishness that was Antonio Brown.

Congrats AB, you are the winner of the year end "D's Nuts" Award! 

Feature photo: Reuters