
Amidst all this talk of potential labor strife and rookie salary capping, The Atlanta Falcons signed Matt Ryan to a six-year deal yesterday that would make me hate my life if it weren't for the fact that I don't consider professional athletes to be real human beings, and that's not necessarily an insult.
Ryan became the second top draft choice to sign when he accepted a six-year, $72 million contract that included $34.75 million in guarantees. Less than a week before the draft, tackle Jake Long signed a five-year, $57.75 million deal with the Miami Dolphins.
The announcement of the new deal came with smiles, confident talk of the future and no mention of Michael Vick, the first pick in 2001 who signed a $130 million extension, the richest in the league at the time, in December 2005.
And then, just for fun, they measured his height again and everyone there had an orgasm in their respective pantaloons. I'm just not expecting him to be much of a pro quarterback. Yeah, he had that last-second conquest over Virginia Tech, but so did that one Asian kid. Granted, he had a bad 40 time, but his completion percentage was off the nozzle.
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the new CBA will allow teams to recoup a portion of the signing bonus paid to rookies who suck in the nfl
That's a whole lot of money to pay a player who is going to cause your team to lose constantly while he's "learning the system"
MMP, that was a fantastic school shooting joke. Bravo.
And the "too soon to make Virginia Tech massacre jokes" rule ended…now.
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"c'mon, you're telling me i got all this money and I won't be able to find one chick in Atl that isn't fugly to stick my little Matty in? Damn"
can't believe i completely missed that. who knew mmp had hair on his nuts. well played sir.
Ouch. Enjoy the flames of helllll-OOOO! Really snuck that one in under the radar.
Bulls No. 1!
@swany – Derrick Rose is so happy to be staying at home he's going out on a motorcycle ride this weekend with Jay Williams.
/yeah… i used the joke already, so what? that was yesterday's shit. no one saw it.
Henne and Brohm will have better pro careers, good job Atlanta.
Oh, um, balls……
Mett Ryan is a good quarterback and deserves the money.
Im still a douchebag and still not funny
Merk, don't you dare. I'll sick Merk Merk and Joe Fuck on you. Damn site will be ruined all day.
Matt Ryan is a good quarterback and he has plenty of room.
To be fair, it's highly unlikely he will be arrested in the near future. Therefore I say good deal!!
I hit that last bit aaaand…laugh>cringe.
+1, MMP.
cheers to another decade without a championship!
Atlanta's equipment manager didn't do Matty Ice any favors when his first Falcon jersey had Klingler on the back.