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<blockquote data-quote="sschind" data-source="post: 786580" data-attributes="member: 10247"><p>Of the close to 2000 players who wind up on 53 man rosters I wonder how many wind up on the rosters of the team they were huge fans of growing up. If you or I had the talent to play the game and ended up playing for the Packers we may consider it sacrilegious to demand more money for three reasons. The first one is easy, its the Green Bay Packers we would die to play for them. Two, we don't have that talent and will never play for the Packers so it is very easy to say that. Its easy to say what we would do if there isn't a chance in hell that we will have to man up and do it. And three we are talking about more money than most of us can can even hope to make so again its easy to say we would play for much less when even the much less is far more than we could ever hope to make. </p><p></p><p>Not a one of us knows how we would react in the same situation that many of these players find themselves in. I am sure that at some levels there are players who turn down more money to play for a certain team or to stay with a certain team. In some cases it may be out of loyalty "these guys gave me a chance when no one else would" or "they drafted me and stuck by me when they could have moved on so I'll reward them." A player like Josh Gordon or Kevin White COULD have those feelings, but lets be honest part of the reason teams stick with certain players through suspensions and injuries is because they are really really talented AND they are relatively cheap in the first place. At the lower levels of the 53 man roster where league minimums are standard players don't usually have that option but there are other ways to reward a team with a discount. I do not begrudge any player for going out and getting what they think they are worth but at the same time when I do hear of players taking less money to stay with a particular team it make me respect them a little bit more.</p><p></p><p>Its like when my nephew asked his mom when he was 5 (keep in mind my brother in law is a huge Bears fan and hates the vikings) " Mom, do you think dad will come and watch me if I ever played for the vikings" my sister reapplied " Honey, if you ever played for the vikings your dad would paint the house purple"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sschind, post: 786580, member: 10247"] Of the close to 2000 players who wind up on 53 man rosters I wonder how many wind up on the rosters of the team they were huge fans of growing up. If you or I had the talent to play the game and ended up playing for the Packers we may consider it sacrilegious to demand more money for three reasons. The first one is easy, its the Green Bay Packers we would die to play for them. Two, we don't have that talent and will never play for the Packers so it is very easy to say that. Its easy to say what we would do if there isn't a chance in hell that we will have to man up and do it. And three we are talking about more money than most of us can can even hope to make so again its easy to say we would play for much less when even the much less is far more than we could ever hope to make. Not a one of us knows how we would react in the same situation that many of these players find themselves in. I am sure that at some levels there are players who turn down more money to play for a certain team or to stay with a certain team. In some cases it may be out of loyalty "these guys gave me a chance when no one else would" or "they drafted me and stuck by me when they could have moved on so I'll reward them." A player like Josh Gordon or Kevin White COULD have those feelings, but lets be honest part of the reason teams stick with certain players through suspensions and injuries is because they are really really talented AND they are relatively cheap in the first place. At the lower levels of the 53 man roster where league minimums are standard players don't usually have that option but there are other ways to reward a team with a discount. I do not begrudge any player for going out and getting what they think they are worth but at the same time when I do hear of players taking less money to stay with a particular team it make me respect them a little bit more. Its like when my nephew asked his mom when he was 5 (keep in mind my brother in law is a huge Bears fan and hates the vikings) " Mom, do you think dad will come and watch me if I ever played for the vikings" my sister reapplied " Honey, if you ever played for the vikings your dad would paint the house purple" [/QUOTE]
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