NFL THUG ANTONIO BROWN REMINDS US: THE XFL IS COMING SOON!

   Antonio Brown, another notorious piece of NFL flotsam, was in the news (again) recently after a viral video of himself acting like ghetto trash near his Hollywood home. Basically, he threw one of his 'baby-mommas' out of the house and smart-mouthed the police, calling them 'little man' and 'fish head' and throwing penis-shaped candies at them. Prior to this incident, he tweeted as a New Year's Resolution that he "was swearing off White Women" ----much to the benefit of half the American gene pool. 

  But this is what the NFL considers high-quality talent. This jughead is a graduate by the way of Central Michigan University---unbelievable as it seems, he was even too dumb to get into Florida State and that's really saying a lot. At any rate, this multimillionaire celebrity learned well there. During the confrontation and after he howled about how there was no justice for the Black Man in America today. 

  Needless to say, this isn't the only incident in which Brown has been conspicuous. Today the Miami Police severed their public-relations ties with Brown though it took three domestic violence reports before they finally did. His agent and his attorney both quit too. Brown responded with this tweet:

   Brown's lawyer was representing him after what the Miami Herald rather tepidly termed "a string outlandish behavior." This included a "2018 lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade County that alleges Brown caused $15,000 worth of damages to a Sunny Isles Beach condominium." The media lives out the little detail that---in this case---Brown destroyed furniture and hurled it down from 14 stories at a woman with an infant. "It seems these days as if Antonio Brown can't catch a break," the Herald's sportswriter lamented. 

   Brown's latest antics, along with the dozen or so NFL thugs jailed so far this season reminded me that the new XFL is opening in just a few weeks. For those of us who've really missed football because it disgusts us too much these days, the XFL looks very promising. Kickoff is at 11 AM Saturday, February 8th and will be televised on ABC and Fox affiliates. 

   

   This new league is the brainchild of veteran sports promoter Vince McMahon. Conservatives here might remember that McMahon's wife Linda---to whom he's been faithfully married for 54 years---was a GOP Senate contender and former head of the US Small Business Administration under President Trump. In 2019, she resigned to work full-time on the Trump 2020 Campaign.

   The XFL is basically a modernized, high-tech version of traditional fan/community centered football. It appeals both to older fans who miss what the game once was; and to younger fans for its innovation and sheer fun. An interesting innovation of McMahon's was to cap ticket prices to make going to games affordable and family-friendly. Most of all, it's going to make football fun again---something we haven't had in a long time.