Off The Grid
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Half a million dollars a year.
You must be one wealthy dude to talk about that kind of money as inconsequential. These are guys who have careers with very limited life expectancies. Why in the world shouldn't they get as much as they can?
$500,000 over four years is two million dollars. Even after taxes, that will turn into another five or six million more, if properly invested, by the time a guy reaches his later years.
Yet you're saying he should just have tossed that kind of money onto the floor. For what? For some fantasy about the "loyalty" that we fans think these guys should have? Loyalty to what? To a team and management that would cut them in a nanosecond if they got hurt or it otherwise suited their purposes?
I'm sorry, I just don't see it that way. These guys should all get what they can when they can get it, because their careers can end on a practice field tomorrow.
Well said, sir.
I honor the right of my fellow fans to hate Adam Vinatieri for making that move.
But I cannot condone it.
2 Mill IS an enormous pile of money, and it's not like he was choosing between $13.5 Mill a year and $14.0.
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Were I running things, I never would've let'm hit the Market in the first place.