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...rumors remain rampant that Deion Sanders signed with the San Francisco 49ers at an artificially-reduced salary to keep the club under the salary cap, with Nike indirectly subsidizing the salary by increasing his Nike contract...
...Race. Deion Sanders thinks this a key reason--and I believe him. Despite the accomplishments of Doug Williams, Randall Cunningham and Warren Moon, a racist myth prevails: blacks aren't smart enough to be quarterbacks. They lack the "necessities," as Dodger executive Al Campaigns once put it, referring go black managers...
Nike's influence contributed to a sticky situation last fall: two-sport wonder Deion Sanders was criticized for playing football and baseball over a single weekend when both his teams -- the Falcons and the Braves -- would have preferred his undivided attention. Sanders became severely exhausted and dehydrated in the process. Why did he do it? Partly because of his own competitive drive, partly because his Nike contract pays him $1 million a year as a two-sport athlete but only $100,000 as a one-sport athlete. The issue is, as one player agent puts it, "Will Nike's interest...
There are certain species of athletes. There are the talented, histrionic media-animals (the Deion Sanders/Keith Elias breed, given to uncontrollable yapping) and the rara avis. the gifted, modest, controlled class of athlete...
...talked with other clubs trying to acquire a speed guy," Schuerholz said. "We decided if Deion wanted to do it, as he said he did, we'd go ahead and give him the opportunity...