{"id":17438,"date":"2000-02-27T14:08:15","date_gmt":"2000-02-27T19:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/?p=17438"},"modified":"2024-02-26T16:25:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T21:25:19","slug":"patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2000\/02\/27\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots Give Brown Five-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It came down to third and long again for the Patriots. And again, Troy Brown came through.<\/p>\n<p>Patriots.com is reporting that Brown has signed a five year contract. His agent, Gary Uberstine, closed the deal on Saturday. Though the terms of the deal were not officially released, the Globe is reporting that the deal is believed to be worth $13 million, including a $2.5 million signing bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, a steady and clutch receiver, proved his invaluable worth to the Patriots with his duties as punt returner. Brown becomes the second high profile free agent to re-up with the team; Lawyer Milloy did the same a few weeks back.<\/p>\n<p>Patriots.com is also reporting that the Patriots have signed free agent Eric Bjornson, formerly of the Dallas Cowboys. Terms of the contract were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>More details will be posted when they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It came down to third and long again for the Patriots. And again, Troy Brown came through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22294,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2000-patriots-season","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Patriots Give Brown Five-Year Deal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It came down to third and long again for the Patriots. And again, Troy Brown came through.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2000\/02\/27\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Patriots Give Brown Five-Year Deal | PatsFans.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It came down to third and long again for the Patriots. And again, Troy Brown came through.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2000\/02\/27\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"PatsFans.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pfans\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2000-02-27T19:08:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-26T21:25:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/New-PF-Logo-2016-PNG.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1527\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"369\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bob George\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@patsfans\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@patsfans\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/2000\\\/02\\\/27\\\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/2000\\\/02\\\/27\\\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Bob George\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/300d5bed4d0966b6d12d1cb8e8ac90de\"},\"headline\":\"Patriots Give Brown Five-Year Deal\",\"datePublished\":\"2000-02-27T19:08:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-26T21:25:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/2000\\\/02\\\/27\\\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":147,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"2000 Patriots Season\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/2000\\\/02\\\/27\\\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/2000\\\/02\\\/27\\\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\\\/\",\"name\":\"Patriots Give Brown Five-Year Deal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2000-02-27T19:08:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-26T21:25:19+00:00\",\"description\":\"It came down to third and long again for the Patriots. And again, Troy Brown came through.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/2000\\\/02\\\/27\\\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/2000\\\/02\\\/27\\\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/2000\\\/02\\\/27\\\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"2000 Patriots Season\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/category\\\/2000-patriots-season\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Patriots Give Brown Five-Year Deal\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"PatsFans.com\",\"description\":\"Patriots Blog with News and Analysis\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"PatsFans.com\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/PF_Social_Logo.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/PF_Social_Logo.webp\",\"width\":300,\"height\":300,\"caption\":\"PatsFans.com\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/pfans\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/patsfans\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/patsfans\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pinterest.com\\\/patsfans\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/patsfans\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tiktok.com\\\/@patsfans.official\"],\"foundingDate\":\"2000-06-17\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/300d5bed4d0966b6d12d1cb8e8ac90de\",\"name\":\"Bob George\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/6811bc3af425f2cb60f2cbaffa1cd9d60e2edd27896d1b4f33ac6b6492755077?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/6811bc3af425f2cb60f2cbaffa1cd9d60e2edd27896d1b4f33ac6b6492755077?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/6811bc3af425f2cb60f2cbaffa1cd9d60e2edd27896d1b4f33ac6b6492755077?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Bob George\"},\"description\":\"Covering Boston Sports since 1997. Native of Worcester, Mass. Attended UMass and Univ of Michigan. Lives in California. Just recently retired after 40 years of public school teaching. Podcasts on YouTube at @thepic4139\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patsfans.com\\\/patriots\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/bobg\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Patriots Give Brown Five-Year Deal","description":"It came down to third and long again for the Patriots. And again, Troy Brown came through.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2000\/02\/27\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Patriots Give Brown Five-Year Deal | PatsFans.com","og_description":"It came down to third and long again for the Patriots. And again, Troy Brown came through.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2000\/02\/27\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\/","og_site_name":"PatsFans.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pfans","article_published_time":"2000-02-27T19:08:15+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-02-26T21:25:19+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1527,"height":369,"url":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/New-PF-Logo-2016-PNG.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Bob George","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@patsfans","twitter_site":"@patsfans","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2000\/02\/27\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2000\/02\/27\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\/"},"author":{"name":"Bob George","@id":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/300d5bed4d0966b6d12d1cb8e8ac90de"},"headline":"Patriots Give Brown Five-Year Deal","datePublished":"2000-02-27T19:08:15+00:00","dateModified":"2024-02-26T21:25:19+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2000\/02\/27\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\/"},"wordCount":147,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/#organization"},"articleSection":["2000 Patriots Season"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2000\/02\/27\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2000\/02\/27\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\/","name":"Patriots Give Brown Five-Year Deal","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2000-02-27T19:08:15+00:00","dateModified":"2024-02-26T21:25:19+00:00","description":"It came down to third and long again for the Patriots. And again, Troy Brown came through.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2000\/02\/27\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2000\/02\/27\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2000\/02\/27\/patriots-give-brown-five-year-deal\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"2000 Patriots Season","item":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/category\/2000-patriots-season\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Patriots Give Brown Five-Year Deal"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/","name":"PatsFans.com","description":"Patriots Blog with News and Analysis","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/#organization","name":"PatsFans.com","url":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PF_Social_Logo.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PF_Social_Logo.webp","width":300,"height":300,"caption":"PatsFans.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pfans","https:\/\/x.com\/patsfans","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/patsfans","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/patsfans\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/patsfans","https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@patsfans.official"],"foundingDate":"2000-06-17"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/300d5bed4d0966b6d12d1cb8e8ac90de","name":"Bob George","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6811bc3af425f2cb60f2cbaffa1cd9d60e2edd27896d1b4f33ac6b6492755077?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6811bc3af425f2cb60f2cbaffa1cd9d60e2edd27896d1b4f33ac6b6492755077?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6811bc3af425f2cb60f2cbaffa1cd9d60e2edd27896d1b4f33ac6b6492755077?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Bob George"},"description":"Covering Boston Sports since 1997. Native of Worcester, Mass. Attended UMass and Univ of Michigan. Lives in California. Just recently retired after 40 years of public school teaching. Podcasts on YouTube at @thepic4139","url":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/author\/bobg\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17439,"href":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17438\/revisions\/17439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}