Originally Posted by
ty-clone
cool, very informative
I gave you two factors including him passing up on a 3 mil deal... again some people will always be ignorant no matter what the factor, it could be race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc
your kerry factor is a little off
since you stated your not a sport fan, ill try to explain in the simplest way.
the nfl has a hard salary cap meaning that every team must have a full roster of its players salary below the number of the cap. after each season teams make a decision on who they going to keep, cut or renegotiate player deals. kerry was one of the players who his team the arizona cardinals decided to renegotiate his contract. kerry was in his final year of his deal which he was going to make about 6 million dollars & his team requested him to take half of it, which is where you got that 3 million dollars from. kerry and his agent decided not to, figuring he still could get that money plus more years from another team. teams can not sign free agents till several weeks after the nfl draft which is spring. and just before that time the gay rumors surface then the pictures and more pictures then the gay dude went on his outing tour doing interviews after interviews. so before the signing period begun the damaged was already done. no team even offered him a try out, ota, mini camp, regular camp etc. it got to the point where he was willing to except the league mininuim which is 800k for a player of his experience and still not one single team was interested.
i understand that you and many others may refuse to believing he was blackballed by the gay rumors, but its the only reason that makes sense