Posted on 02/06/2006 8:43:26 AM PST by joyspring777
When the NFL unveiled its MVPs from the previous 39 Super Bowls, only three living members skipped the ceremony.
Former 49ers quarterback Joe Montana and former Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw decided to stay home, while former Dolphins MVP Jake Scott was traveling in Australia.
Montana, the league's only three-time Super Bowl MVP, turned down the invitation over money, Newsday and the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Bradshaw, who told league officials that he wanted to be with his family, also took issue with the fees, the Chronicle reported. Bradshaw, through a representative, denied the Chronicle's report that there was a dispute over money.
Former MVPs were given $1,000 for incidental expenses while in Detroit, along with other amenities such as plane tickets, car rental and game tickets.
Sources told each paper that Montana asked for a guarantee of at least $100,000 in appearance money.
When the league balked at Montana's demands, the quarterback declined to be in attendance.
ESPNs sources for this story are The San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday. Their sources are anonymous.
It should be called the "dumping the ball off quickly to save your behind" offense, and began the deterioration of hard-nosed football.
I take issue.
Montana was aided by no "pick rule" in the NFL during his career. SF was the pick leader, and was very sly about.
Kind of, oops, didn't see that safety or corner coming. Then boom the receiver, be he whomever, is wide open and MONTANA KNOWS IT WAS COMING.
Like Fish in a barrel! Disgusting!
On this very site yesterday, there was a post from a Bay Area newspaper article about former NFL players and the pain they live with from injuries sustained during their playing days. Joe Montana was one of the featured players, and Montana referenced how the NFL just sued him for filing for medical expenses (he's getting a knee fixed), coverage he was awarded after winning his case against the 49ers and their workers comp responsibility. So as far as I'm concerned, I can see why Montana told them to stick it. They'll run him out onto their big stage for their benefit, but away from the spotlight, they're screwing him over. Good for Joe.
Never in a thousand years (Unless they raze the place and rebuild it as a clean safe moslem-free city.) I have greater respect for my life than that.
Yeah you would, if include at least two tickets to the Super Bowl, hotel accomodations, limosine ride to the game....you would go.
You are just being ornery, which is what conservatives and libertarians like us are good at.
But...you would go. Quit being ornery!
and quit being religiously racist or whatever qualifies.
Moslems have a rights if they are Americans under the Constitution like all of us.
Not a right to kill...or inpinge on anyone else's rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
NO AMERICAN city has a right to vanquish any group of people from their city unless their beliefs are twisted, malformed from civilized society...like the Joseph Smith led mormons who believed they could have as many wives as they liked, as young as they liked.
In summary, my rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are ONLY LIMITED by those pursuits impinging upon someone else's right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
and...excuse me...what employer...ten years or so after one retires...pays out of pocket for surgery.
Is Joe M broke? There are men who are far older and broken than him who had no coverage. Those are the ones who need that money...not Joe.
Joe, if it wasn't about him and money, should have held a press conference and had five of those old guys show up...and said PAY FOR THEIR SURGERIES...not his own. That would have been far classier.
He just looks really, really SMALL on this.
Workers, freaking comp?
What did he think he was paid all the big bucks for? Because the game was easy, and he should never have fear of injury?
You know, maybe he is just sore about the high salaries now, compared to what he made back then. Poor baby!
He was paid very well for what he did. His promos were well defined. He still has money making prowess today.
The NFL has given him more than he probably ever dreamed when he was sweating things out in high school and college.
What would his life had been like without what Notre Dame and the NFL paved ways for him.
I won't cry for Joe. Gimme a break! He is a ungreatful wretch, for the most part, on this one.
If he had a legitimate beef, he could have used his leverage BEFORE HAND to work things out.
I don't know the details of the knee thing, but if the rules are the rules. The rules are the rules. Does that mean one should go to court to expand them? I think not, but many greedy attorneys push the envelope, and Joe found one to do it for him.
Bad call. Interception on the field of publicity! Returned for a touchdown!
Whatever. Joe's still the greatest QB to ever play the game. IMO.
Not anymore he is not. He ruined it by his lack of class yesterday - if indeed it is a true story.
I'd scalp the whole package. There's no way someone could get me to go to detroit without threatening me with loss of job or something. Go there voluntarily. No way. too many moslems there.
I also would never go to New York City, various neighborhoods of Cincinnatti, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Most of New England (excluding Maine), Chicago, San Fran, South East DC after dark (or across the river at any time), St Louis (if I could avoid it in any way), Austin TX, Madison WI, LA, and probably ten or twenty other major cities.
I try to avoid democrat areas in any state and try to avoid blue states entirely.
Let me modify my last answer a little. If the Packers were playing and I could go in a large group of packer fans (50 to 100) then I may consider going. But since the game is always televised why bother putting up with the denizens of detroit at all.
The people who live in these blue states are Americans as well and there a large minority of conservatives who live in these states. Do carry so much hate in your heart, it is not healthy, and it is unAmerican.
Not a right to kill...or inpinge on anyone else's rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
But the koran COMMANDS moslems to infringe on our rights.
NO AMERICAN city has a right to vanquish any group of people from their city unless their beliefs are twisted, malformed from civilized society...like the Joseph Smith led mormons who believed they could have as many wives as they liked, as young as they liked.
Guess which other group staunchly defends the right to have as many wives as they please and guess which group's founder married his youngest wife when she was 6 years old and molested her when she was 9 years old? Guess which group believes that all people should be forced to follow their religion and that those who don't should be killed or enslaved? Guess which group has always supported terrorism and which group's religion commands them to lie if they can gain advantage by it? Yep. Moslems in every case. "Their beliefs are twisted, malformed from civilized society"
In summary, my rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are ONLY LIMITED by those pursuits impinging upon someone else's right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
And if another group's declared goal is to destroy this country and our way of life, that is, they have openly declared their intent to massively infringe upon our rights, then do we have to wait to expel them until after they attack or can we pre-emptively solve the problem? I vote to solve the problem now and get rid of the moslems.
Islam is incompatible with civilized society and always will be. Their scriptures COMMAND them to be terrorists as long as there are free people to fight against
That's ok let him live in stupidity. My guess is not a soul in the cities he boycotts will miss him or anyone like him.
And what is this supposed to mean? Is it un-American to avoid places you don't like? I happen to despise big cities. Always have and the more I'm forced to go into them the more I despise them. So to be a good Ameican should I force myself into the city? Why? What can I possibly find of value in the city that I can't get at home or over the net?
Face it, to some people, cities suck
Now where did I ever state that I hated the people who lived there? I realize that most of them are Americans. A large number of them are confused and I believe a significant proportion of them are treasonous (Anyone who votes democrat has got to be an enemy of our constitution. The democrat national platform and the Constitution are mutually exclusive). Unfortunately the only way to sort out the confused from the treasonous is a long term educational project which the pubbies seem reluctant to undertake.
First of all, the NFL clubs are obligated to cover the medical expenses for these players, and many of the claims are run through worker's comp by the team. That's just the way it is done. When the 49ers tried to bail out on their responsibility for his medical expenses, Montana sued, and won. And regardless of how much money Montana might have made during his career, absorbing the bulk of a $40,000 to $60,000 surgery/rehab tab is not some trivial expense that he should just look the other way on.
I can only assume that Montana's teams kicked your favorite team's asses over the years, so you harbor some sort of bitterness towards him. But I personally think it is great that he didn't show for the NFL's self-serving show yesterday, especially when outside of the camera's eye, the NFL is attempting to screw him out of benefits he is rightfully owed, and earned.
I don't understand the hostility in your statement. Just because I choose not to go to the city you think I'm stupid? Why? Does everyone have to live according to the same plan and all freedom of thought is forbidden or are we allowed to have dissimilar likes and dislikes?
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