NFL Star Loses $8 Million After Agent Faxes Agreement Late

The Baltimore Sun reports that the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens, as well as The New England Patriots and Tennessee Titans have interest in Dumervil.

[Ferrerman]

I guess his agent didn't...show him the money!

[GenOmazing]

If he ends up making more, now that he is a Free Agent, than what he was going to make with the Broncos (restructured contract with a pay cut down to about $8mil) then did the agent do wrong?

[Sally Brown]

That's got to really suck!!! Not only for the player but also for the agent! Geeeee get your head out of your ass people..... tick tock tick tock people....

[Commander Bunny]

That's a Bozo-no-no.

[Bama Yankee]

No one is worth an $8 Million paycheck anyway.

[Ferrerman]

Bama Yankee wrote:

No one is worth an $8 Million paycheck anyway.

Except our glorious CEO's!!!!!!

[MeSoEnvious]

Ferrerman wrote:

<quoted text>Except our glorious CEO's!!!!!!

...and entertainers, and athletes, and anyone with super rare talents that are rewarded by a capitalist system. Very few people (hardly anyone, in fact) can play DE at an NFL level, but damn near everyone can stir the fries at Burger King.

[Employment Office]

MeSoEnvious wrote:

<quoted text>
...and entertainers, and athletes, and anyone with super rare talents that are rewarded by a capitalist system. Very few people (hardly anyone, in fact) can play DE at an NFL level, but damn near everyone can stir the fries at Burger King.

The only job Ferret has ever completed successfully was a hand job. The guy can't even scrub a toilet without screwing it up. That's why he's on public assistance and spams Topix all day.

[milwaukee69]

Bama Yankee wrote:

No one is worth an $8 Million paycheck anyway.

Yeah, but would you sit down and watch a 3-hour football game on your 76" LCD HD TV that only had players making $6 an hour?

I know I wouldn't...

Besides, and I'm not disagreeing with what your saying, the average NFL carreer only lasts 3.3 years according to livestrong.com . Not all ex-football players become sports analysts and not everyone is as lucky as Brett Favre.

Few, if any, have the knowledge or intelligence to squirrel away some money till they retire.

[Ferrerman]

milwaukee69 wrote:

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Yeah, but would you sit down and watch a 3-hour football game on your 76" LCD HD TV that only had players making $6 an hour?
I know I wouldn't...
Besides, and I'm not disagreeing with what your saying, the average NFL carreer only lasts 3.3 years according to livestrong.com . Not all ex-football players become sports analysts and not everyone is as lucky as Brett Favre.
Few, if any, have the knowledge or intelligence to squirrel away some money till they retire.

It was only since free-agency that the average player could hope to make a career out of playing ball. Even for a time after that, pro athletes were having to have jobs in the off-season to get by.

A teapublican dream would be to field teams of Mexican illegals at current ticket prices. "If only..."

But, why are we the people paying these socialists to work only 6-9 months a year anyway?

[Bama Yankee]

milwaukee69 wrote:

<quoted text>
Yeah, but would you sit down and watch a 3-hour football game on your 76" LCD HD TV that only had players making $6 an hour?
I know I wouldn't...
Besides, and I'm not disagreeing with what your saying, the average NFL carreer only lasts 3.3 years according to livestrong.com . Not all ex-football players become sports analysts and not everyone is as lucky as Brett Favre.
Few, if any, have the knowledge or intelligence to squirrel away some money till they retire.

I wouldn't sit down and watch a 3 hour football game under any circumstances.

Who's fault is it that these "sports greats" haven't the intelligence or knowledge to squirrel away money for retirement? Why do we, as a culture, reward stupidity?

[Secret Agent Man]

Bama Yankee wrote:

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I wouldn't sit down and watch a 3 hour football game under any circumstances.

Life with hemorrhoids must really suck. Maybe you could try standing.

[Secret Agent Man]

I didn't think anyone faxed anything anymore. Did his agent not own a scanner and not have email?

[Ferrerman]

Secret Agent Man wrote:

I didn't think anyone faxed anything anymore. Did his agent not own a scanner and not have email?

The guy's prolly a shoe-shopper.

[crazy idea]

Ferrerman wrote:

<quoted text>It was only since free-agency that the average player could hope to make a career out of playing ball. Even for a time after that, pro athletes were having to have jobs in the off-season to get by.
A teapublican dream would be to field teams of Mexican illegals at current ticket prices. "If only..."
But, why are we the people paying these socialists to work only 6-9 months a year anyway?

so are you mad at the players for trying to get their share of the cash, the owners for trying to make as much money as they can or the public that spends the money to see the games

[Ferrerman]

crazy idea wrote:

<quoted text>so are you mad at the players for trying to get their share of the cash, the owners for trying to make as much money as they can or the public that spends the money to see the games

I'm mad at you for being unable to distinguish between a statement and a question. However, I'll get over it before I hit "post comment".

[GenOmazing]

Ferrerman wrote:

<quoted text>Except our glorious CEO's!!!!!!

Somewhere I saw where Elizabeth Warren suggested the minimum wage should be $22/hr. I'm just getting in so it may have been a thread on Topix where it's already being discussed. I wonder what some of the hardcore, underearning tea bagger security guards would say about that and their current $9/hr wage? Would they switch parties overnight? LOL

[Ferrerman]

GenOmazing wrote:

<quoted text>Somewhere I saw where Elizabeth Warren suggested the minimum wage should be $22/hr. I'm just getting in so it may have been a thread on Topix where it's already being discussed. I wonder what some of the hardcore, underearning tea bagger security guards would say about that and their current $9/hr wage? Would they switch parties overnight? LOL

I'm sure they'd argue that it would raise prices and ruin the economy and yada yada even though prices rose while wages went down/stagnated, the past 30 years. They would then be told that the stagnating wages kept prices from rising even higher. Following that up would be GOP logic that LOWERING wages would slow the rising of prices, thus saving the country!

[GenOmazing]

Ferrerman wrote:

<quoted text>I'm sure they'd argue that it would raise prices and ruin the economy and yada yada even though prices rose while wages went down/stagnated, the past 30 years. They would then be told that the stagnating wages kept prices from rising even higher. Following that up would be GOP logic that LOWERING wages would slow the rising of prices, thus saving the country!

They (underachievers) are very good at voting in their best disinterest.

[Ohio Cowgirl]

I love football also but I think they are paid to much. I get it they don't get to play long because of injuries or performance but geez thats alot of doe-ra- me.....

In one yr if you break it down they make more than our President.

Whats wrong with this picture???