The San Diego Chargers and rookie quarterback Philip Rivers weren't able to agree on a contract. From the San Diego Union Tribune:
Comic book superheroes couldn't reach the impossible incentives the Chargers have proposed.If Rivers wins four Super Bowls and appears in four Pro Bowls over his first four years, he gets $5 million. Five Super Bowls and five Pro Bowls in five years? $7.5 million. Six Super Bowls and six Pro Bowls in six years? $10 million.
So, if Rivers is a person not of this earth, or has been strengthened by a freak atomic explosion, he has a chance – minute – to earn $22.5 million in incentives, that, as [his agent] says, "never have been achieved in NFL history."
Too bad this guy isn't available....
(Actually trying to think of which superheroes played football in college. Jay Garrick, post-Crisis Clark Kent, maybe Ben Grimm?)
2 comments:
You can add Guy Gardner and John Henry Irons to that list. I think they both played for Michigan, as established by Beau Smith during his run on Guy Gardner: Warrior.
I believe you're right. And I was wrong -- Clark only played football in high school.
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