New York Daily News

News learns kicker allegedly

- BY SETH WALDER

Another day, another story about another arrest for Josh Brown. Makes you wonder if Giants president and co-owner John Mara is still “comfortabl­e” with having the troubled kicker on his team. According to police reports obtained by the Daily News, Brown was arrested two months after the domestic violence case that led to the Giants kicker’s one-game suspension — this time for violating a protective order placed against him by his ex-wife Molly Brown.

Now the real question: Did Mara and the Giants know about Brown’s second arrest when they inked him to his new deal? Did the NFL know about the second arrest when it suspended him for just one game for violating its Personal Conduct Policy?

The Giants say they re-signed Brown in April to a two-year, $4 million deal with $1 million guaranteed with full knowledge about both his May 2015 domestic violence arrest and the plethora of accusation­s made against him by his ex-wife.

Mara said Wednesday the team was “comfortabl­e” with its decision to re-sign Brown as well as the league’s one-game suspension.

On Friday, when The News

asked a team spokesman if the Giants knew about Brown’s second arrest, he referenced Mara’s comments from Wednesday in which the owner said, “All I can tell you is that we are aware of all the allegation­s and, I believe, all of the facts and circumstan­ces, and we were comfortabl­e with our decision to re-sign him.”

An NFL spokesman did not respond when asked if the league factored the second arrest into its decision to suspend Brown for one game.

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