Credit Al Michaels with the line of the night about Antonio Brown, when the NBC “Sunday Night Football” announcer said upon seeing Brown’s jet touch down in New England: “It’s a good thing he didn’t have to go through baggage claim, because he’s got a lot of baggage to claim.”
Michaels’s quip was inspired by the cross-country weight Brown was lugging from Oakland, where an abbreviated tenure with the Raiders was saddled with constant turmoil. That ended when Brown asked for and was granted his release, which wasn’t enough to scare off the Patriots, who plucked him off the open market in a mere 15 minutes.