I don’t necessarily believe him, but…
“Because this is football, man. This is the game you love, man. We was playing this game for free when we was born. It ain’t all about the bread, you know?” — Charles Rogers on how he could produce for a team that’s trying to take back more than $10 million from him
I don’t necessarily think there are any professional athletes that are just about the game. Please don’t (all 4 of you who might be reading this blog) send me examples of players taking pay cuts for cap reasons to help the team or pay cuts to go to a contender and help win a championship. Umm, it’s still millions of dollars (the average NBA pay is like $400k, the NFL I think is like $500k). So yeah, pay cut, but going from $10 mil to $4 mil, boo hoo!
Despite all of that, this is the kind of sentiment that I like to at least hear, even if it’s not true, from professional athletes.
