Brandon Browner Sentenced to 8 Years for Attempted Murder

Source – Former NFL cornerback Brandon Browner was sentenced to eight years in prison following a plea of no contest to attempted murder, according to TMZ.

Browner, 34, was accused of breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s La Verne, Calif., apartment in July, chasing and dragging her around before smothering her in a carpet. According to a release from the La Verne Police Department, he threatened the victim and took a Rolex watch worth approximately $20,000.

Well, well, well, how the mighty have fallen. To go from back-to-back Super Bowl champion to doing an 8-year stretch in the Graybar Hotel in just a few years isn’t a fall from grace, it’s a plummet. But if I told you a player of recent vintage who won consecutive rings with two different teams would end up getting convicted of attempted murder and asked you to guess who is was among Browner, LeGarrette Blount or Chris Long, Browner would’ve won in a landslide, right? With probably 98% of the popular vote.

Browner was a tremendously gifted athlete, a huge man able to keep up at a traditionally small man’s position. And also a flaming rageaholic. And who has lived his life believing that everyone is entitled to Brandon Browner’s opinion.

This after all is the same Browner who told his teammates before Super Bowl LI that they needed to break Earl Thomas and Richard Sherman’s arms. Not to mention the time in Patriots Training Camp when he got frustrated that Darrelle Revis was “on The Island” at practice, covering his own man instead of communicating the way the Pats system requires, so he communicated his disappointment with a fist to Revis’ face. This was not your typical summer heat, tensions rising, Training Camp scuffle either. Browner landed a haymaker on the best corner of his generation to show how he expected things to be done.

Granted, not everyone who thinks you need to knock your opponent’s out of a game and start fights with teammates is capable of attempted murder. But this one was. And while it’s shocking, it’s really not surprising, if that makes any sense.

And this is another case that points out a flaw in the legal system. If you commit murder, you get life in prison. Attempt to commit murder, and you only get eight. Where’s the logic in that? It’s like we’re rewarding him for failing to do what he set out to do. Any man who’ll wrap his ex up in a carpet hoping to suffocate her to death doesn’t deserve the break. Throw this psycho in jail and break the key off in the lock. While we remember him jamming Jermaine Kearse at the goal line in happier times: